The US Military Almost Deployed Nuclear Missile Trains on American Railroads During the Cold War The Cuban Missile Crisis was two decades in the rearview, but in the early 1980s, Cold War tensions between the United States...
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.
'We're Going to Take Our Capital Back': Trump Calls for DC Deployments Despite Falling Crime Rates Notably, the order's text also paves the way for more guard deployments from other states and overall increases by giving...
Activist and Trump Confidant Seeks to Oust Army Secretary Far-right political activist and close confidant to President Donald Trump Laura Loomer launched an unusual public attack on...
Navy Identifies Recruit Who Died at Great Lakes Firing Range Seaman Recruit Kayshawn Wilkerson, 18, died Wednesday following an incident at the base's firing range, according to the Lake...
Defense Secretary Hegseth Promotes Video of Man Claiming Women Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Vote Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a video about Christian domination in the age of President Donald Trump — and his since...
Service Investigating After Airman Died During Physical Training Test in California Airman 1st Class Syamukonka Moonga, assigned to Port Hueneme's 346th Training Squadron, died on Aug. 4 at the California...