This Army Pilot Proved Airplanes Could Sink Battleships and Predicted Pearl Harbor — He Was Fired For It In 1921, Army Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell proved airplanes could sink battleships. Three years later, he predicted Japan would...
Pratt & Whitney Gets $1.1 Billion Contract for More Fighter-Jet Work The new contract follows a number of other recent defense deals for Pratt, including a $2.9 billion contract modification...
Data Shows a Spike in Military Aircraft Accidents in 2024. This Year Doesn't Look Any Better The number of major accidents involving military aircraft spiked in 2024, internal Pentagon figures show, and a series of...
What to Know About the F-35 Fighter Jet that Trump Is Selling to Saudi Arabia President Donald Trump says he has agreed to sell the nation's most advanced fighter jet to Saudi Arabia despite concerns...
The WWII Mystery Behind the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles: Axis Planes, Aliens or Mass Hysteria? Not even three months after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Americans on the west coast thought they were under attack...
Ukraine Plans to Buy Up to 100 Rafale Warplanes and Air Defense Systems From France Ukraine has signed a letter of intent to buy up to 100 Rafale warplanes from France, along with drones and ground-to-air...
White Paper Circulating Pentagon Calls For New Aircraft Plan With NATO: Exclusive Military.com has exclusively learned that a white paper on U.S. aircraft in association with NATO allies is moving through...
Why America’s Air-to-Air Kill Ratio Dropped So Much During the Vietnam War American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller...
Boeing Defense Workers Ratify New Contract to End 3 Month Strike in the Midwest Boeing machinists on Thursday approved a five-year labor agreement to end a strike that began on Aug. 4 at three Midwest...
Crews Are Safe Following Two Navy Crashes Two Navy aircraft from the USS Nimitz crashed minutes apart in the South China Sea.
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...
