President Trump on Nov. 29 said the airspace above Venezuela is now completely closed off as tensions escalate between the U.S. and South American country over alleged drug trafficking.
U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, one of two West Virginia National Guard members wounded in a “targeted shooting” near the White House on Nov. 26, has died, President Donald Trump said Nov. 27.
Russia’s growing prowess at hitting Ukrainian supply lines with drones is the most important shift in the war in 2025, Ukrainian front-line fighters and analysts studying the conflict say—more significant than Russian forces’ incremental gains in territory.
The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. “The order was to kill everybody,” one of them said.
The Virginia Republican discusses the Pentagon’s acquisition reforms, the SecDef’s legislative-affairs bottleneck, and his priorities for the upcoming spending bills.
As part of the Air Force’s massive exercise in the Indo-Pacific last summer, the service deployed prototypes of its new battle management kit to iron out how the mobile systems can be transported and used in a distributed battlespace.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded startup Enabled Intelligence a contract worth up to $708 over a maximum of seven years for help training AI-driven computer vision systems.
The U.S. Army’s AH-64 Apache attack helicopter is continuing to develop its ability to detect and destroy enemy aerial drones. In a recent live-fire test, AH-64E versions of the helicopter used the latest Version 6 (V6) software package that further enhances the Apache’s qualifications as a drone-hunter, something that has previously been proven in exercises in the Middle East.
The world’s biggest weapons-producing companies saw a 5.9 percent increase in revenue from sales of arms and military services last year as demand was fed by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as well as countries’ rising military spending, according to a report.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command is set to launch its Santa tracking program Dec. 1, giving kids and families a front-row seat to Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve journey. NORAD has tracked Santa for 70 years as he soars across the globe delivering presents in addition to monitoring and defending North American airspace every day.
