Air Force 'Safely Terminated' a Nuclear-Capable Missile After Failed Test over Pacific Ocean A test launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base went awry "due to an anomaly." The cause of what went wrong with the nuclear...
Air Force Tests Long-Range, Nuclear-Capable Missile Amid Global Tensions The Air Force successfully launched a long-range, nuclear-capable missile during a scheduled test out of California on...
US Pulls Missile Defenses in Saudi Arabia Amid Yemen Attacks A high-resolution satellite picture taken Friday showed the batteries' pads at the site empty, with no visible activity.
Air Force Aborts ICBM Test After Problem on the Ground The aborted mission comes as the Pentagon faces increased scrutiny over its efforts to develop next-generation ICBMs to...
Putting Nuclear Bombers Back on 24-Hour Alert Would Exhaust the Force, General Says A requirement to return a portion of the Air Force bomber fleet to alert status would deteriorate and exhaust the force, a...
Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore, STRATCOM Chief Says Adm. Charles Richard rejected suggestions to save money by trying to life-extend the 50-year-old ICBMs.
A Navy Destroyer Just Shot Down an ICBM Target for the First Time As the ICBM intercept test was a preliminary test of a new combat capability, the ICBM target did not deploy countermeasures.
Northrop Grumman Gets $13.3 Billion Air Force Contract to Engineer New ICBMs The new ICBM will replace the Minuteman III, which was designed to last a decade and recently celebrated its 50th anniversary...
The Minuteman III, Designed for 10 Years of Use, Celebrates its 50th Anniversary Wednesday marks 50 years since America's Minuteman III ICBM was first placed on alert at Minot Air Force Base.
FTC Investigating Northrop Grumman Amid ICBM Spat with Boeing The agency is probing whether Northrop violated the terms of an agreement it made to acquire Orbital ATK.
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-40-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...
