A newly published video interview with a Ukrainian Air Force fighter pilot sheds more light on the operations of the country’s F-16 fleet in its war with Russia. The interview with the pilot, whose name is not provided, is a rare firsthand opportunity to hear about how the Ukrainian Air Force has gone about introducing its first Western fighter jet.
France, the United Kingdom, and Ukraine signed a “Declaration of Intent” on Jan. 6 to send their forces to Ukraine in the event of a peace deal with Russia. British, French, and partner forces would be on the ground, establishing “military hubs” across Ukraine, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says it was “unfair” to banish his country from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and has called for Ankara to be readmitted to the project.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers that recent administration threats against Greenland didn’t signal an imminent invasion and that the goal is to buy the island from Denmark, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The U.S. government assesses that about 75 people were killed during the Jan. 3 military raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, including dozens of fatalities that resulted from a gun battle at his compound in Caracas, according to officials familiar with the matter.
Location, location, location: Greenland’s position above the Arctic Circle makes the world’s largest island a key part of security strategy. But for whom? Increasing international tensions, global warming, and the changing world economy have put Greenland at the heart of the debate over global trade and security, and U.S. President Donald Trump wants to make sure his country controls this mineral-rich island that guards the Arctic and North Atlantic approaches to North America.
Federal agencies and private groups are keeping their eyes peeled for hacking and information-warfare efforts launched in response to the wake of the United States' Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela to capture leader Nicolás Maduro. The unilateral attack has raised concerns that countries aligned with Venezuela, such as China or Russia, may launch retaliatory cyberattacks on U.S. soil.
It’s not Skynet, yet, but in an Air Force experiment artificial intelligence tools managed to out-perform human professionals in a key piece of planning military operations, service officials recently revealed.
The Pentagon has reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin to increase manufacturing of the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptor to over 2,000 a year, more than tripling its current production rate.
In the wake of the U.S. successful operation—in which President Donald Trump said one helicopter was struck by fire but not a single American aircraft was shot down and no Americans were killed—the question has been raised: How good are Russian-supplied air defenses, especially after similar systems used in Iran were ineffective against U.S. and Israeli strikes last year?
By July 2024, the public knew the program had blown its budget. But the announcement was nonetheless staggering. The projected price of an Air Force program to build a next-generation nuclear missile – dubbed Sentinel—had risen 81%, from $77.7 billion to nearly $141 billion.
Royal Canadian Air Force Maj. Gen. Chris McKenna spends a good part of his days and nights figuring how to counter the growing threats China and Russia pose to the high north. Cruise missiles, launched from enemy aircraft well into international airspace, count among his biggest concerns.
The Pentagon is mounting a six-month review of women in ground combat jobs, to ensure what it calls the military “effectiveness” of having several thousand female Soldiers and Marines in infantry, armor, and artillery, according to a memo obtained by NPR.
By November 1944, Nazi Germany was collapsing. Soviet forces drove westward through Eastern Europe while the Western Allies advanced from the west and south. For the first time in the war, American and Soviet troops operated in the same theater.
