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Friday, April 3, marks the first day of share trading for the merged enterprise of Raytheon and United Technologies, to be known as Raytheon... Read More
The U.S. Military just placed an order for 78 new F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, a $4.7 billion agreement that will provide planes for the U.S.... Read More
The top Marine told reporters Wednesday that current layout and organization of the Corps' Light Armored Reconnaissance units were better... Read More
The fraying of the liberal international order, seemingly hastened by Covid-19, validates a more grim school of thought. Read More
The first of three new units the Marine Corps will design to fight in hotly contested maritime spaces will be based in the Asia-Pacific... Read More
There's no social distancing on an aircraft carrier, so an emergency stop was the right call. Read More
China's military and paramilitary forces have been employing lasers with increasing frequency since at least 2018.China is laser-focused on... Read More
On March 9, China moved into the end run of a decades-long project to build its own global navigation satellite system, a project that will... Read More
The bold new Pacific plan "is designed to persuade potential adversaries that any preemptive military action will be extremely costly and... Read More
The U.S. has deployed Patriot missile batteries in Iraq as the coalition battling the Islamic State group in the country draws down and a war... Read More
Boeing and the Air Force have finalized an agreement to fix the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker's most serious technical problem, Defense News... Read More
The pandemic hit Iran harder than almost anywhere—but may have strengthened the regime's hard-liners. Read More
As Lebanon struggles with an economic crisis and the new coronavirus pandemic, momentum is building in Washington to curtail or end U.S.... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency intends to select two or more companies later this year to design, build and test a mesh... Read More
As the U.S. military sends its expeditionary medical forces to augment civilian facilities responding to the COVID-19 crisis, as a nation we... Read More
The U.S. Army is working on plans to continue training large groups of troops amid the escalating coronavirus pandemic by creating... Read More
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Bottom Line: Tensions between Iran and the...
Bottom Line: As Western nations continue to...
Walter 'Bud' Baker, who was shot and saved lives in the Vietnam War, died Monday from coronavirus in Berrien County. Read More
The Air Force is training medics to transport COVID-19 patients on military cargo aircraft, modifying a process that was originally used to... Read More
Two cadets first-class were found dead within three days this past week at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Air Force officials say neither death... Read More
The number of Guard troops mobilized in the effort to cope with the coronavirus pandemic continues to grow.As of Sunday morning, more than... Read More
The Donald Trump administration on Tuesday announced a comprehensive plan to end Venezuela's political chaos and bring relief to its 32... Read More
The first global war of the 21st century began in December without a shot fired. A Wuhan doctor in China noticed some patients admitted to... Read More
There's a maritime industry, it's just not as prominent as those from other countries. So in the U.S., you've got shipbuilders that build... Read More
Last week, a meme circulated among military and veteran circles on social media sites. It was entitled, “In Light of Current Events,... Read More
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The Navy's new hulking Expeditionary Sea Bases, also referred to as Afloat Forward Staging Bases, are amazingly versatile motherships that... Read More
The U.S. Navy generated glowing headlines and cheering crowds when deploying its hospital ships Mercy and Comfort to Los Angeles and New York... Read More
Soft, floury elbow noodles smothered in tomato sauce and ground beef goodness. It's an entree that has graced American tables for over a... Read More
“We're gonna have to brave the storm together, especially some of the smaller suppliers,” said Lucas Hicks, vice president of new... Read More
Navy leaders praise ship's captain for urgent evacuation request; 3,700 will leave the ship within days.About one-fifth of the USS Theodore... Read More
China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it's suffered from the... Read More
A Marine Corps decision to reduce the number of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters per squadron from 16 to 10 won't lead to a cut in the total number... Read More
The newest Category One deficiency on the KC-46 is the type of flaw that can be expected when a new aircraft is evaluated, and is not... Read More
What goes up must come down. This is not only a principle of physics, but by now also a core principle of military establishments: buzzwords... Read More
Raytheon will remove the system's IBM computers and install new Hewlett Packard Enterprise hardware.WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force's... Read More
While the world is gripped by the devastating economic and societal impacts of the novel coronavirus pandemic, major Air Force weapon... Read More
The novel coronavirus will hit the U.S. military and its allies hard, as already there have been outbreaks at the Marine Corps boot camp at... Read More
The United States first sent its military to Afghanistan to end the terrorist sanctuary that developed there under the Taliban and culminated... Read More
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has swept the globe has come down particularly hard in Spain. The number of confirmed... Read More
The world we left when we got underway in early March to test newly installed systems was not the world we returned to 13 days later. When... Read More
The Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, General David Berger, has just released his long-anticipated Force Design 2030. It proposes a transformation of the Corps' force structure, types of ships, the mix of platforms and weapons systems, and operational concepts to address the demands of deterrence and warfighting in an era of great power competition. In response to this new environment, the Mari Read More
Russia sent a plane full of medical supplies to the U.S., even though the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is running wild throughout the entire country. It did so for two reasons, to show gratitude for President Trump's apparent desire to rescue Russia, Saudi Arabia, and most importantly, U.S. energy producers out of the insane energy war triggered last month by Riyadh and Moscow. But Moscow also emula Read More
On February 28, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that the Northern Fleet (NF) created an additional Air Defense (Voyska Protivovozdushnoy—PVO) division, ensuring that, “the Northern Sea Route [NSR] is now under steady protection.” He noted that protection of the east-west NSR, which follows Russia’s northern coast, as well as “the defense of vital industrial objects and Read More
