Air Force Gives Raytheon $2 Billion For Nuclear Cruise Missile Development The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon Technologies $2 billion to develop the Pentagon's new air launched nuclear cruise...
Switzerland Becomes Latest Nation to Choose F-35 for Its Next Fighter Jet The deal with Lockheed costs roughly $5 billion Swiss francs, which amounts to $5.5 billion in U.S. currency.
Marine Corps Takes Major Step Forward on New King Stallion Helicopter Program Teams from Marine Corps Air Station New River are preparing for suitability and evaluation tests on the newest CH-53K King...
New T-7 Red Hawk Trainer Faces Delays over Parts Shortages, Testing The Air Force had planned to ask for $206 million next year for development on T-7, but will ask for just $189 million...
Air Force Kicks Off Search for New Refueling Tanker Amid KC-46 Woes The Air Force announced plans to buy between 140 to 160 "KC-Y" commercial derivative tankers at a rate of 12 to 15 aircraft...
The Army Is Putting 30mm Autocannons on More Stryker Vehicles The Army has awarded a six-year contract to Oshkosh for the production of the weapon system for up to six Stryker brigades.
Navy Speeds Up Ship Retirements as It Ramps Up Investment in New Platforms While the Navy's most recent plan included plans to decommission 48 active ships by 2026, the new budget request speeds up...
The Navy Will Pay $554M for Another Next-Gen Frigate, Called USS Congress The Wisconsin-based Fincantieri Marinette Marine was awarded a contract to build the future guided-missile frigate Congress.
These Are the 5 Planes Vying to Be AFSOC's New Armed Overwatch Aircraft USOCOM announced it has awarded contracts to five companies to produce prototype aircraft for its Armed Overwatch program.
CNO Says Navy Department Has Strong Case for Getting Bigger Slice of Defense Budget Gilday has for more than a year said his service needs a bigger portion of the budget to build more ships and submarines.
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
![Gunnery training with Infantry Carrier Vehicle "Dragoon" class Strykers.](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2021-06/mil-stryker-gunnery-training-1800.jpg?itok=UNDe2g4r "The U.S. Army’s 1st Squadron 2nd Calvary Regiment conducts gunnery training with Infantry Carrier Vehicle "Dragoon" class Strykers at Grafenwoher Training Area, Germany on August 11, 2020 (U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Stephen Dornbos, AFN Bavaria, Germany)")
