Ride of the Valkyries: The Army Is Getting the US Military's Most Powerful Laser Weapons Yet The Army will receive a platoon of four Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser (IFPC-HEL) laser weapons...
Air Force Says It Remains Confident in Osprey Aircraft Despite Recent Deadly Mishaps The Air Force, which uses the aircraft for special operations missions, remains dedicated, committed and confident in the...
Marine Corps Suspected Part Causing Osprey Clutch Failures in 2010 The Marines and the manufacturer made several efforts to fix the problem years before the deadly 2022 Osprey crash in the...
Marine Corps Widow Pushes Back After Claims Deadly Osprey Malfunction Is 99% Fixed The five Marines who took off on a training flight June 8, 2022, died when their Osprey suffered a catastrophic clutch issue.
Bird Smashing into Cockpit Caused T-38 Trainer Crash in Mississippi The instructor pilot from Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi, who was not named in the report, had to eject and landed in...
A Mysterious Osprey Clutch Issue Caused the Deaths of 5 Marines. But V-22s Remain Flying. Despite the findings the military continues to fly the V-22 with no firm understanding of the cause or any definitive...
Morse Code Explained Morse code, the language of the telegraph, is a system of communication that's composed of combinations of short and long...
Warning Issued to Troops Receiving Strange Smartwatches in the Mail The CID is considering the possibility that this is a deliberate operation by malicious actors -- criminals, terrorists, or...
A New Armored Vehicle Is Coming to the Army. It Could Be a Game Changer for Light Units, Vets Say. Unveiled June 10, the M10 Booker is the first specialized armored vehicle with a tank-sized gun to join the Army in decades.
Details of Chinook Crash That Injured 22 Troops Corrected by Pentagon The Pentagon on revised its narrative of what happened during a helicopter incident in northeastern Syria that left 22...
Naval Academy Staff Removed Display on Female Jewish Graduates for Hegseth Visit The U.S. Naval Academy has confirmed that officials there removed items commemorating female Jewish graduates from a historic...
'The Greatest Soldier in American History' Took a Tank Round to the Leg and Kept Fighting The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France...
My Black Roommate Opened My Eyes to an Air Force I Didn’t Know Existed I realized I had been sheltered from much of the world's ugliness and was more than a little naive. I thought the problems I...
4 US Soldiers Who Died in Lithuania Swamp When Their Vehicle Sank Are Identified The recovery operation for the bodies and the M88 was an intricate and arduous weeklong process, enlisting the expertise of...
How Comic Legend Mel Brooks Defused Land Mines During World War II Brooks participated in the Battle of the Bulge -- Germany's final major offensive on the Western Front -- but to his...
![Lockheed Martin's Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-10/pub-valkyrie-laser-engages-drone-1200.jpg?itok=BmuKifGp "An artist's rendering of Lockheed Martin's Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser, also called "Valkyrie," engaging a hostile drone. (Lockheed Martin)")
