The House voted to pass a sweeping defense policy bill Wednesday that authorizes $900 billion in military programs, including a pay raise for troops and an overhaul of how the Department of Defense buys weapons.
On the morning of June 1, more than 100 drones emerged from cabins on the back of four trucks and swooped toward four Russian airfields. For the drone pilots hundreds of miles away in Kyiv, the defenseless warplanes were like fish in a barrel. An hour later, dozens of Russian warplanes had been destroyed or damaged.
The U.S. has seized a large oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, officials said Dec. 10, escalating tensions between the two countries. President Trump said he assumes the U.S. will keep the oil.
Poland’s military command says it is considering donating its remaining MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine as part of a potential technology swap that would give Warsaw access to Ukrainian drone and missile innovations.
After a series of meetings in Washington D.C., Defence Minister Richard Marles says he is confident Australia’s $4.5 billion contribution to the U.S.'s military shipbuilding program will help it deliver the AUKUS submarines on time. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has praised Australia and the UK for “stepping up” and contributing to global security through the AUKUS agreement.
The Pentagon was in a bind. The military had plucked two survivors from the Caribbean Sea in mid-October after striking a boat that U.S. officials said was carrying drugs, and it needed to figure out what to do with them.
The Space Force is upgrading defenses for Cape Canaveral to counter unmanned aerial systems without endangering air traffic, the commander of Space Launch Delta 45 said.
The conferenced version of the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act would require the Pentagon to brief lawmakers on operations since 2004 involving any unidentified anomalous phenomena intercepts conducted by the integrated military commands that share leadership and a focus on defending North America.
The U.S. Marine Corps is testing the Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS) as a long-range one-way strike drone. Based on a design reverse-engineered from the Iranian-designed Shahed-136, these drones have already been deployed by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) to the Middle East.
Last week, the White House released its new National Security Strategy (NSS), representing the Trump administration’s view of the world’s greatest challenges—and how the United States can protect its interests. The strategy marks a significant departure in framing from the first Trump administration and has caused a stir in Washington and around the world. Experts at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security dove into the document and graded it based on five criteria.
The North American X-15 was built for one purpose—high speeds at high altitudes. An important part of data collection for the United States space program, the rocket-powered bullet-shaped research aircraft had astonishing performance utilizing the technology of the 1950s and ’60s.
