The Israel Defense Forces said July 27 it would begin a scheduled “tactical” pause of its military activities in three areas in Gaza, as it opens aid corridors to allow food and medicine into the enclave. A suspension in military activity was scheduled from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. for Al Mawasi, Deir al Balah and Gaza City, according to Avichay Adraee, an IDF spokesperson. The suspension was to begin July 27 and continue every day until further notice, he said in a statement on social media.
It’s a good time to be in the missile-making business. Western companies that build missiles, including offensive rockets and defensive interceptors, say they are fielding a surge in new orders. Heavy demand for Patriot antimissile arrays, Thaad interceptors and Sidewinder missiles is keeping defense contractors from Lockheed Martin to RTX busy while some other business lines stumble.
Preparations to refit the Qatari jet that will be used as Air Force One are underway, and floor plans or schematics have been seen by senior U.S. officials, CBS News has learned. Earlier this year, President Trump confirmed that the Qatari royal family was donating a Boeing 747-8 for his use. Valued at $400 million, the jumbo jet is set to be donated to Mr. Trump's presidential library after his term is over.
Spacepower is fundamentally reliant on the cyber domain— it is the backbone of connectivity for constellations on orbit, their ground stations, and connectivity to warfighters. The Space Force’s S6 team are responsible for ensuring Guardians have reliable, capable, and secure cyber connectivity. Join Heather Penney as she explores this topic with Col. Nathan “Crazy” Ivan, the acting deputy chief of space operations for cyber and data and Seth Whitworth, the associate deputy chief of space operations for cyber and data.
The Defense Department’s sequel to the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract it awarded in 2022 will target more than the four major hyperscale cloud service providers—Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle—that won the first contract.
Germany and France will “clarify the situation” regarding their Future Combat Air System project by the end of the year, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said after a July 24 meeting with his French counterpart, in response to bickering between partner companies about work share.
In March 2025, the U.S. government conducted a wargame on how to defend military bases in the United States from drone attacks. Just three months later, what had seemed a theoretical possibility became frighteningly close to reality.
Adm. Daryl Caudle, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be chief of naval operations, told lawmakers that the sea service needs to field a sixth-generation fighter jet as quickly as possible or risk losing its edge over adversaries.
The Navy has started inducting its legacy trainer aircraft, the T-45 Goshawk, into a service life extension program designed to keep the fleet in service through 2036 while the Navy advances its successor fleet through an industry competition.
With the U.S. Air Force’s Global Strike Command (AFGSC) having instituted an indefinite “pause” on the use of Sig Sauer M18 pistols in the wake of a deadly incident at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, a question has emerged: what will the command’s aircrews carry for self-defense in the meantime?
American military forces successfully captured multiple members of ISIS-Somalia in a ground raid in Somalia’s Puntland state. U.S. Africa Command announced on July 26 that it carried out an operation against ISIS-Somalia on July 25.
When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, U.S. troops were looking for nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons. The Americans found a lot of bizarre things—toilets and guns made of gold, a Koran written in blood, and Saddam’s romance novel. While they didn’t find any weapons of mass destruction, they did manage to find some weapons. Specifically, they found aircraft buried in the sand next to a perfectly good airfield.
