A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker on Dec. 12, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path.
A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related articles headed to Iran from China, U.S. officials said, a rare interdiction operation at sea aimed at blocking Tehran from rebuilding its military arsenal.
A top House Republican plans to summon the senior military lawyer present during a controversial U.S. strike that killed the survivors of an initial attack on their alleged drug smuggling boat in the waters off Venezuela.
The Israeli military said it killed one of Hamas’s top commanders in Gaza in a targeted strike on a car on Dec. 13, in what would be the most high-profile assassination of a senior figure in the militant group since the cease-fire began two months ago.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is ready to give up on demands for NATO membership in exchange for security guarantees from the U.S. and Europe, in a move aimed at advancing peace talks in Berlin.
The Defense Department should improve information sharing among different services and offices to improve the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft’s safety and reduce dangerous or fatal accidents, the Government Accountability Office said Dec. 12.
The Air Force pushed back the estimated delivery date for the first of two new Air Force One jets by another year to mid-2028, giving Boeing Co. even less wiggle room to meet President Donald Trump’s demand to get plane by the end of his term.
Switzerland said on Dec. 12 it would reduce the number of Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighter jets it is buying from the United States so it can stick to the original budget plan after the cost of the order rose.
A year ago, the leaders of the House Armed Services Committee put the Space Force on notice. The service, they said, was putting too much focus on its operators and not enough on its acquisitions corps—an imbalance that might ultimately harm the U.S. military's ability to preserve its edge in space.
The Marine Corps is continuing to build its small unmanned aircraft system operator roster as it ramps up drone implementation across the force, according to a service message and official.
Coming out of the latest meeting on the troubled Future Combat Air System, France and Spain signaled their renewed commitment to the next-gen program, though key stakeholder Germany declined to join them with a public comment.
The Trump administration is forming a coalition to counter China’s dominant control of critical minerals and emerging power as a center of AI and other tech sectors.
Congress wants the Department of Defense to study psychological effects of working with uncrewed weapons. Nestled inside the large National Defense Authorization bill currently making its way through the legislature is a section calling for a “comprehensive study” on how working with uncrewed aerial systems impacts troops’ mental health.
Senior Space Force acquisition officials are worried about the impact of losing the ability to award Small Business Innovation Research grants as Congress wrestles with reauthorization of Pentagon rights to use the program.
By the early 1920s, Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell was one of the most senior aviation officers in the U.S. Army and its most aggressive internal critic. Drawing on his experience commanding Allied air power during World War I, Mitchell warned future wars would be decided in the air, and the U.S. military’s fixation on battleships left the country dangerously exposed.
