US defense sales internationally totaled $33.6 billion in Fiscal 2016—a large drop from Fiscal 2015’s total of $47 billion, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday. The 2016 total included $2.9 billion in Foreign Military Financing-funded cases, $5? billion in Building Partner Capacity-funded cases, and $25.7 billion funded by partner nations, DSCA said in a release. While there’s a drop from last year, DSCA Director Vice Adm. Joseph Rixey said the three-year sales averages show a “continuing, growing sales-trend over the last decade.”
B-1 Bomber Task Force Deploys to Japan
Oct. 18, 2025
A quartet of B-1Bs from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas have landed at Misawa AB, Japan, likely for a series of exercises with Japanese, U.S. and Australian forces.
