Shortly after an airliner made an aggressive maneuver to avoid colliding with a B-52 last month over North Dakota, the bomber nearly collided with a small private plane as it flew past the Minot airport, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
Kyiv was bombarded overnight by Russia’s second-biggest aerial attack since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with at least 21 people killed, including four children, according to officials. Buildings belonging to the European Union and the British Council were damaged in the strikes into Aug. 28, causing both the EU and the United Kingdom to summon the top Russian diplomats in their capitals.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Aug. 27 said the Pentagon would no longer allow Chinese nationals to work as coders on Department of Defense cloud systems.
The Pentagon is scrapping its old playbook for defending against small drones, moving beyond years of evaluations and studies toward a model that comes with new money and authority geared to field capability faster, according to an Aug. 28 memo from the defense secretary.
Too few defense contractors are testing their technology in real-world situations against a peer adversary, NATO’s military chief said Aug. 28, praising companies that are making the effort to work with the Ukrainian military.
An Air Force official charged with oversight of the service’s nuclear weapons predicts that a plan to dig hundreds of new silos for the Sentinel ICBM program will save time and money, but cautioned that the new facilities may not all fit on existing federal lands.
In a major change to how the service trains aviators, the Navy recently revamped their flight training curriculum so that pilots now graduate from flight school and receive their “Wings of Gold”—the Navy’s formal name for flight wings—without actually landing on an aircraft carrier.
Donald McPherson, a naval aviator who served during World War II, scored five confirmed kills in the Pacific while flying a Grumman F6F Hellcat from the USS Essex. This earned him the title of ace, and before his death on Aug. 14, 2025, McPherson was America’s last living ace of the war.
