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Raytheon says its Joint Precision Approach and Landings System, or JPALS, is revolutionizing landings at sea for the first... Read More
John Adams famously proposed a "government of laws and not of men." Sometimes it seems as though what we actually ended up getting was a... Read More
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - An MQ-9 Reaper drone has bagged its first air-to-air kill of another small, aerial vehicle in a controlled... Read More
This week, in a notable regional development, a Japanese submarine visited Vietnam for the first time. The move did not receive nearly as... Read More
The Air Force has proposed a 25% increase in its force structure, as Loren Thompson described yesterday. Heather Wilson, Secretary of... Read More
Members of a task force focused on grunts and special operations troops are finding ways to make infantry a top... Read More
The NATO summit threatens an outrage with U.S. President Donald Trump over burden sharing in the Alliance. However, this dispute distracts... Read More
Attacking enemy fighters in close-air-support aircraft, using ground-based laser designators to “paint” targets for aircraft and... Read More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has overseen trials using mind-controlled drones for use by the military.According to The... Read More
Great-power strategic competition, defend forward, and prepare for war: These are the three central tenets of the newly released summary of... Read More
PENTAGON: Of all the technologies and tactics that the defense secretary's Close Combat Lethality Task Force has looked at, I asked one... Read More
The Navy identified a sailor who was killed aboard USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) on Monday on the carrier's flight deck.Airman... Read More
Two pilots safely ejected after a T-38 crashed Tuesday morning at Sheppard AFB, Texas. The mishap is the fourth crash involving a T-38 in the... Read More
Americans on Tuesday will mark the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that claimed almost 3,000 lives.President Donald... Read More
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM ―Two B-52s that were unable to fly and get out of the path of Typhoon Mangkhut as it brushed... Read More
President Donald Trump announced new tariffs of 10 percent on $200 billion worth of Chinese exports, marking a significant escalation in... Read More
"Maybe the grandiose version of strategy is overrated. A nation that muddles along may nonetheless move forward; and America has done just... Read More
LIBERALISM made the modern world, but the modern world is turning against it. Europe and America are in the throes of a popular rebellion... Read More
Seventeen years ago today all of our lives changed for good, but not for the better.The terrorist attacks on New York City, the Pentagon and... Read More
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WASHINGTON — Congress loves buying littoral combat ships, but when it comes to the packages of sensors and systems that make the... Read More
The United States is engaged in an unusual global war, fighting a tactic rather than an enemy nation. Unlike traditional warfare, it is... Read More
“We're looking at airframes of the future that will have common cockpits, advanced propulsion systems, (and) signature management,"... Read More
The Air Force is taking another step in an aggressive plan to prototype, test and deploy hypersonic weapons on an expedited schedule -- to... Read More
Trump administration officials expressed doubts the 2010 New START arms treaty will be extended over concerns about Moscow's failure to... Read More
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Wednesday it would permanently abolish its key missile facilities in the presence of foreign experts,... Read More
The basic argument laid out by AFA is that while there might be a need for a Space Force, now is not the time to break up the Air Force. "The... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Army has changed its acquisition plan for its Indirect Fire Protection Capability — designed to defend... Read More
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- A lightweight system designed to hunt down and neutralize enemy unmanned aerial systems of any size can be modified... Read More
Today, the tables are turning. China is attempting to overtake the West as a global leader in technology innovation, just as the West did to... Read More
The high-end biennial Valiant Shield exercise kicked off in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands on Sunday, with some of the Navy's and... Read More
The Air Force is hoping a suite of new artificial intelligence and augmented reality technologies will help accelerate the speed at which... Read More
Raytheon says its Joint Precision Approach and Landings System, or JPALS, is revolutionizing landings at sea for the first two deployed squadrons of the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter.Now, the company is setting its sights on the Air Force, where JPALs, already installed on the service's F-35A, could help take the guesswork out of landings at austere airfields with little infrastructure, and in Read More
Great-power strategic competition, defend forward, and prepare for war: These are the three central tenets of the newly released summary of the 2018 Department of Defense Cyber Strategy. The new strategy document is decidedly more focused, risk-acceptant, and active than its predecessor in 2015. It centers on China and Russia, arguing that the United States must actively counter these state actors Read More
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Wednesday it would permanently abolish its key missile facilities in the presence of foreign experts, the latest gesture by leader Kim Jong Un to revive faltering talks with Washington over his country's nuclear program. Read More
