This week, the National Reconnaissance Office declassified a trove of documents pertaining to the long defunct “Tagboard” drone program, a reconnaissance effort so ahead of its time that it seemed View More ›
Why do the Pentagon’s reasons for buying new F-15s keep shifting?
Even among fans of Boeing’s F-15EX initiative, you won’t find anyone who will contend that the F-15 is a superior aircraft to Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter. On paper, a View More ›
Acting defense secretary under investigation for alleged Boeing bias
Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive with no other government experience, is now the nation’s longest-serving acting secretary of defense in history, having taken on the role after James Mattis View More ›
Pentagon plans to deploy ‘particle beam’ weapon in space by 2023
Missile defense has been a priority in the United States for decades, in no small part because the threat posed by long-range, nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles remains as one of the View More ›
China says US media is lying about why Pacific nations want the F-35
China’s aggressive claims of sovereignty over the vast majority of the South China Sea have put the nation at odds with many of its Pacific neighbors, many of whom have View More ›
Russia’s 20-ton ‘Hunter’ is supposed to be their first stealth UCAV
Last July, a single grainy image of Russia’s long-anticipated Okhotnik (Hunter) unmanned combat aerial vehicle hit the web, prompting a flurry of headlines speculating about the 20-ton drone’s potential as View More ›
Watchdog report: Navy risking troops’ lives by pushing the F-35C into combat
Last month, the United States Navy declared that the carrier-based variant of Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter, known as the F-35C, was ready to commence combat operations. Now, a new View More ›
A meteor unleashed a 173 kiloton explosion in Earth’s atmosphere and nobody noticed
Back in the 1990s, movies like “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact” helped show the world what it could be like if humanity met its end in a massive asteroid impact like View More ›
Civilian passenger unexpectedly ejects from French Rafale B fighter during takeoff
A 64-year-old man unexpectedly ejected from the rear seat of a Rafale B fighter during takeoff at Saint Dizier-Robinson Air Force Base in France. The unnamed man was reportedly a View More ›
New F-15s, F-22 upgrades, and classified bombers: Here’s where the Air Force wants to put its money
As defense officials unveil their 2020 budget requests, journalists and analysts alike are finally getting a peek behind the curtain at the real priorities driving the American war-fighting apparatus. The View More ›
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