The U.S. Air Force faces a compelling and capable adversary in China’s air force. The U.S. Air Force cannot overcome this adversary’s range and numbers solely by buying more crewed combat aircraft. Having recognized this, the Air Force has taken to experimenting with “affordable mass” in the form of autonomous combat aircraft.The largest component of the effort to achieve affordable mass is the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, with the first increment of collaborative combat aircraft entering flight testing this year.
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The United States has signaled that it wants to take a fresh look at the legal tools used to identify and prosecute terrorist groups. Its most recent move concerns the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational organization that — despite the violent and destabilizing activity of some of its national branches — would not usually be designated in its entirety as a terrorist organization. Rather than announcing a decision outright, U.S.
As we move deeper into the winter months, doctors are sounding the alarm about a more aggressive flu season already spreading across the globe.
According to a recent report from Fox News, a new strain of Influenza A — H3N2, subclade K — is driving a surge in cases, including here in the United States. Public health experts are calling it a “perfect storm” strain due to its severity, rapid spread, and the fact that this year’s flu vaccine does not directly match the variant.
President Trump in Palm Beach, FL, along with Secretary of War Hegseth, Secretary of State Rubio, and Secretary of the Navy Phelan announced the initiative to build new ‘battleships’ for the U.S. Navy. These ships will be large, and heavily armed said POTUS.
Trump disclosed the country will start building two of the vessels, but move to as many as 25 as fast as possible.
U.S. Navy Secretary John Phelan — “The future Trump-Class Battleship, the USS DEFIANT, will be the largest, deadliest, and most versatile, and best-looking warship anywhere on the world’s oceans.
In one of the latest moves by the Defense Department to build up its AI workforce, the Naval Postgraduate School has announced a new one-year master’s degree program in artificial intelligence.
The accelerated program — which will include 21 courses and require residency in Monterey, California, where the school is located — is open to qualified active-duty military officers and DOD civilian employees who have a computer science background, according to NPS, which indicated that interested candidates can apply through the organization’s admissions office.
In January, the Pentagon announced that it was sending 1,500 soldiers and Marines to the U.S.-Mexico border to augment 2,500 service members already deployed there in support of ongoing U.S. Customs and Border Protection operations.
Nearly 8,500 troops are currently assigned to the border mission, according to officials with Joint Task Force-Southern Border, the name of the command running the military’s mission there.
The additional troops were sent following President Donald Trump’s Jan.
Maj. Gen. Luke Cropsey, the overseer of the modernization of the Air Force’s command, control, communications and battle management (C3BM) enterprise, has been nominated for promotion to three-star and to serve as military deputy for the service’s acquisition, technology and logistics directorate at the Pentagon.
The nomination by President Donald Trump was submitted to the Senate last week and officially announced by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Thursday.
A major legal ruling in 2024 has reshaped how veterans may use their GI Bill education benefits. The Rudisill v. McDonough decision instructs the Department of Veterans Affairs that veterans with multiple qualifying service periods can now draw from both the Montgomery GI Bill – Active Duty (Chapter 30) and the Post 9/11 GI Bill (Chapter 33), potentially accessing up to 48 months of combined education assistance.
German Armed Forces have placed an order with KNDS Deutschland for 84 RCH 155 wheeled howitzers, following a contract agreed through ARTEC.
The Swedish Armed Forces have mandated the FMV to procure enhancements for the Patria XA 203 vehicles from Patria.