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...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
