Another Dead End for Airborne Lasers: Air Force Scraps Effort to Mount Directed-Energy Weapon on Fighter Jet The Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator, or SHiELD, was envisioned as a laser weapon mounted on fighter jets such as...
US Navy Flagship Carrier USS Ronald Reagan Leaves Its Japan Home Port After Nearly 9 Years The departure of USS Ronald Reagan — one of America’s largest warships and a nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier —...
Military Ospreys Can't Fly More Than 30 Minutes from Landing Airfield Months After Grounding Lifted Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy V-22 Ospreys were all given the green light to fly again in early March and have been slowly...
Biden Administration Is Sending $1 Billion More in Weapons, Ammo to Israel, Congressional Aides Say It's the first arms shipment to Israel to be revealed since the administration put another arms transfer, consisting of 3,500...
Russia Says It Downed 10 US-Supplied Missiles over Crimea as Blinken Visits Kyiv The ATACMS long-range ballistic missiles were destroyed over the Black Sea, the ministry said. The U.S. included the Army...
Ejection Seat Misfire Kills Air Force Instructor Pilot at Texas Base The pilot's death marks the latest incident with the T-6 and comes on the heels of a grounding of the aircraft two years ago...
Investigation Finds Navy Supply Ship Ran Aground After Captain Left to Eat Dinner The Alan Shepard was launched in 2006 and has space for a crew of more than 120, all of whom are typically civilian mariners...
Storied Marine Corps Jet to Make Final Appearance at Cherry Point Air Show as Service Transitions to F-35 The AV-8B Harrier II has been a tactical stalwart for the service since the 1980s -- and even before that, in different...
Apache Crash Injures 2 Fort Riley Soldiers as Army Grapples with Nonstop Aviation Incidents The pair of soldiers with the 1st Infantry Division's Combat Aviation Brigade were being treated for injuries after the crash...
US Drone Warfare Faces Questions of Legitimacy, Study of Military Chaplains Shows The American public tends not to question military action it perceives as rightful, and U.S. policymakers often reference the...
How Marines Took an Airfield in the Philippines in a Show Against China On April 30, three combined littoral reconnaissance teams made up of roughly 30 U.S. and Philippine Marines each, flown by...
Army Eliminates Online Training Requirement for Noncommissioned Officers, Saying It's Too Burdensome The Army has eliminated a significant part of its online training for enlisted troops -- a learning program that has drawn...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
Air Force Pilot Who Died After Aircraft Ejection Seat Misfire Identified by the Service Capt. John Robertson, an instructor pilot from the 80th Operations Support Squadron at Sheppard Air Force Base, was injured...
Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or...