Iran ‘s foreign minister briefly visited Islamabad again on April 26 as Pakistan’s political and military leadership scrambled to reignite ceasefire negotiations between Tehran and Washington, but President Donald Trump said they could talk by phone instead.
The U.S. military killed two “narco-terrorists” in a strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Eastern Pacific on April 24, according to U.S. Southern Command.
President Vladimir Putin is facing rising discontent across Russian society as the war against Ukraine drags on, the economy flounders, and public dissatisfaction mounts over government restrictions on internet access.
The air war over Vietnam represents one of the most dynamic, evolutionary periods of airpower innovation. This impacted tactics, operational concepts, training, and technological developments. In part two of this conversation, we continue our interview with two legendary Vietnam veteran airmen: Col. Leonard “Lucky” Ekman, USAF (Ret.) and ace Col. Chuck DeBellevue, USAF (Ret.). We focus on how the air-to-air tactics and technology evolved as well as key details behind the Wild Weasel mission.
Conventional wisdom says it should be a good time to be a weapons maker. Weeks of war in the Middle East have driven up demand for sophisticated missiles and other weapons, while the Trump administration is seeking a record $1.5 trillion military budget that front-loads several years of munitions orders.
NATO’s eastern flank readiness remains uneven despite major financial commitments, as persistent mobility and decision-making vulnerabilities threaten rapid troop movements during wartime, a new report found.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on April 23 accused China and other foreign entities of engaging in “deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distill U.S. frontier AI systems,” and said that the Trump administration will be taking steps to safeguard domestic artificial intelligence products.
Three U.S. aircraft carriers are operating simultaneously in the Middle East for the first time since 2003, U.S. Central Command said on April 24, marking the largest concentration of naval power in the region in decades.
In modern air warfare, advantage is no longer defined only by the aircraft that fly, but by how quickly they can be tested, validated and fielded. The U.S. Air Force is now targeting that gap, using artificial intelligence to compress one of the slowest stages in capability development, the paperwork that comes before flight.
The U.S. military is expanding intelligence-gathering and minesweeping operations to clear out underwater explosive devices that are restricting maritime navigation in the Middle East as the war between Iran and the American-Israeli coalition hangs in limbo amid an uncertain ceasefire.
Lockheed Martin has claimed victory in a longstanding competition to sell fighter jets to Peru, though senior officials in Lima appear to be at odds with each other over the fate of the deal.
The command overseeing the top special operations units in the military is looking for industry partners—companies, research groups, and nonprofits—to work with to develop new technologies for use in missions.
The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 24 insisted President Donald Trump end the ceasefire against Iran and resume bombing the country, potentially inflaming a tense situation while the administration works towards a peace deal.
Videos and other imagery bearing witness to the awesome destructive power of nuclear detonations remain some of the most enduring legacies of the Cold War. But of the more than 2,000 nuclear weapons tests that have been carried out since 1945, only very, very few have involved a live weapon dropped from a fighter-bomber.
