New Small Diameter Bomb Doesn’t Fit Inside Marine’s F-35B Joint Strike Fighter engineers will have to make adjustments to the weapons bay of the Marine Corps variant of the F-35 so...
Navy Budget Confirms Plans to Cut Purchases of Littoral Combat Ships The U.S. Navy plans to reduce its Littoral Combat Ship buy from 52 to 40 vessels over the next five years, according to the...
Marines Should Deploy with More Ships, Planes: Think Tank The 70-page document confronts the new challenges facing Marines and sailors engaged in amphibious warfare.
F-35 Will Not Reach Full Close-Air-Support Potential Until 2022 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter pilots will have to wait until 2022 to fire the U.S. military's top close-air-support bomb.
Commandant Autographs F-35s While Touring Lockheed Factory in Texas The Marine Corps' top officer recently revealed that some fresh-from-the-factory F-35 jets will come to the fleet with an...
Air Force Get More Airmen, No Extra Planes in Defense Bill The Air Force would add 4,000 airmen next year -- but no extra warplanes -- under the compromise defense bill.
Navy Leans Toward Building More Super Hornets After F-35C Delays The Navy is considering extending production of F/A-18 Super Hornets beyond the current plans to stop building them by 2017.
F-35 Cost May Drop to $85 Million by 2019 The Pentagon's fifth-gen fighter program is on course to realize significant savings in coming years, the program manager...
Biden Signs Defense Bill with Junior Enlisted Pay Hike, Ban on Treatments for Transgender Military Kids A massive raise for junior enlisted troops next year and a ban on some health care for transgender children of service...
Maryland Air National Guard to Add DC Fighter Squadron as Federal Budget Negotiations Settle U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, Maryland Democrats, called it a “win-win scenario” that preserves Maryland’s...
Rare Corruption Case Against 4-Star Admiral Runs Headlong into Mistress Testimony Issues, Pentagon Culture The witness in question is a woman with whom Burke was having an affair and who, according to court filings, went to...
Lessons from the Air Force Kitchen Police: Volunteer for Everything. Even Pots and Pans When Ed Meagher reported to Air Force basic training on June 15, 1966, he was a 19-year-old college dropout. Despite two...
Ukraine's Military Intelligence Says North Korean Troops Suffer Heavy Battlefield Losses North Korean troops are suffering heavy losses in the fighting in Russia's Kursk region and are facing logistical...
![A medic treats an injured Ukrainian serviceman at Medical Service "Ulf"](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-12/ApNewsroom_Russia_Ukraine_War_51948.jpg?itok=av5ab3CD "A medic treats an injured Ukrainian serviceman at Medical Service "Ulf" of the 108th Separate Battalion "Da Vinci Wolves" on Pokrovsk direction, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)")