U.S. President Donald Trump announced new weapons for Ukraine July 14, and threatened sanctions on buyers of Russian exports unless Russia agrees to a peace deal, a major policy shift brought on by frustration with Moscow's ongoing attacks on its neighbor.
Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal, or EOD, technicians will take a new gender- and age-neutral fitness test starting next month, the service has announced, with a medicine ball toss, a powerlift, and a dynamic drill with 80 lbs of weight known as the Gruseter.
The U.S. Army plans to stand up four new Patriot surface-to-air missile system battalions in the coming years to help ease the strain on what it says is its “most stressed force element.” Doing so will grow the service’s overall Patriot force by roughly a quarter, and even more so when it comes to units that can be deployed operationally.
The military’s central artificial intelligence hub has quadrupled down on its investment in commercial “frontier AI.” On July 14, the Pentagon’s Chief Digital & AI Office (CDAO) announced that it would split $600 million in contracts evenly among Anthropic, Google, and xAI.
Two of the Pentagon’s top investigative bodies are digging into a pair of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s close aides and their role in the controversy surrounding government use of the Signal app to discuss sensitive information, according to three people familiar with the probes.
President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" approved in early July allocated $25 billion for Golden Dome, a missile defense system that could bring a windfall of investment to Colorado's space economy.
The largest-ever war-fighting drills in Australia, Exercise Talisman Sabre, are underway and expected to attract the attention of Chinese spy ships. Talisman Sabre began in 2005 as a biennial joint exercise between the United States and Australia. This year, more than 35,000 military personnel from 19 nations will take part over three weeks.
A KC-46A Pegasus refueling tanker was forced to conduct an emergency landing July 8 after its refueling boom was shredded in a mishap off the East Coast. The unofficial Facebook page Air Force amn/nco/snco posted photos of the KC-46 July 11, which showed extensive damage to the plane’s refueling boom.
Faced with intensifying Chinese encroachment at sea, the Philippines increasingly sees its national security as intertwined with that of Taiwan and is quietly ramping up both formal and informal engagement with the self-governing island, including on security.
Congress is preparing to direct the Pentagon to establish permanent funding for a U.S. Space Force initiative that delivers commercial satellite imagery and analytics to military commanders worldwide, even as the program faces uncertainty in the Trump administration's defense budget proposal.
The Defense Department has started reviewing applications from personnel seeking financial compensation for brain health issues associated with the phenomenon known as Havana Syndrome, according to the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson.
China’s military is extending its reach deeper into the Pacific, sending ships and aircraft into new territory in a push that has spurred the U.S. to strengthen defenses and alliances in the region.
It’s been battered, broken, on fire, and almost always spewing a pillar of black smoke, and now the Admiral Kuznetsov might be at the end of its service.
