The sixth-generation fighters will be expected to operate in highly contested areas that could even make F-35 and F-22 pilots sweat, and as such, they’ll have to be highly survivable. That means leveraging stealth and […]
The US Air Force (USAF) has performed the first test drops of its new Boeing Guided Bomb Unit‐ (GBU)-72 Advanced 5K (A5K) Penetrator, releasing the ‘bunker buster’ bomb from a Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle. The […]
China called on the United States to withdraw troops from Taiwan on Friday in response to reports that a small presence of American troops have been training forces there for at least a year. Chinese […]
The US Navy sold two aircraft carriers to a ship-breaking company for 1 cent each after decades of service. The cut-price fee reflects the fact the company will profit from selling the ship metal for […]
Taiwan’s Naval Command had confirmed that a team from the Marine Raiders Regiment – the U.S. Marine Corps’ special operations forces – arrived in the country on November 9 to train the Taiwanese Marines, the […]
Lockheed Martin is breaking barriers in hypersonic technology, adding to its world-class portfolio another milestone with the grand opening of an advanced production facility in Courtland, Alabama, focused on hypersonic strike production. Capitalizing on critical […]
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Small presence of Americans secretly training local forces marks concern over China’s years long military buildup and recent moves, learned GDC citing Wall Street Journal. About two dozen members of U.S. special-operations and support troops […]
The U.S. Navy conducted a two-missile test flight of unarmed life-extended Trident II-D5LE missiles from the USS Wyoming in the Eastern Test Range off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Fla, over the weekend, according to […]
The christening of the future USS Carl M. Levin (DDG 120) took place on 2 October 2021 at the General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine. DDG 120 is the fifth (of nine) […]
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