Air Force Wants to Fire Lasers from Aircraft by 2023 The Air Force plans to be able to incinerate targets such as incoming missiles with aircraft-launched laser weapons by 2023.
Russia 'Closing Gap' Between US with Newer Air Defenses, General Says Russia's development of new surface-to-air missile systems and other air defenses has 'closed the gap' between U.S. air...
Russia Arms Fighter-Bombers in Syria with Air-to-Air Missiles The potential for conflict between Russia and the U.S.-led coalition increased as Russia put air-to-air missiles on its jets...
Critics Try but Fail to Kill $1 Billion Weapons Deal for Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia is poised to receive a hefty $1.3 billion weapons package that includes 13,000 "smart bombs" from the United...
US Claims Right to Defend Against Russian Anti-Air Systems in Syria The DoD warned Russia that the U.S. has the right to self-defense against surface-to-air missiles deployed by Russia to Syria...
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...
