The Air Force has met its annual goal for signing up new recruits five months ahead of schedule, service officials said. As of this week, officials said, recruiters had already landed commitments from more than 32,750 recruits, the service’s target for the full 2026 fiscal year, which runs until Sept. 30.
In hitting those numbers, the service brought in more recruits than last year without reducing its annual goals, as it did in 2025.
The Space Force, which falls under the Department of the Air Force, also met its recruiting goal of 730 guardians ahead of time, according to the Air Force.
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Rumors swirled for two years. This week at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Paramount Pictures finally made a formal announcement.
“‘Top Gun 3’is officially in development with a script well underway, reuniting Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer,” said Josh Greenstein, co-chair of the studio.
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While a director has yet to sign on, Bruckheimer confirmed that the creative team “pitched Tom a story he liked.
Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranIn the space of less than 11 hours on April 7, President Donald Trump went from warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight” to announcing a two-week ceasefire with Iran. That whiplash-inducing turn was just a taste of the twists that would follow over the coming week. First came a resumption of negotiations mediated by Pakistan. With the presence of Vice President J.D.
Imagine holding 96 kites in one hand with a single line. Not controlling each one, but controlling the wind itself. You set the intent, you pick the direction, and the kites will figure out how not to crash into each other.
That is the exact analogy Chinese state television used in March 2026 to describe what their new Atlas drone swarm system can do, and it might be the most honest thing Beijing has said about its military in years.
L3Harris Technologies and the Orange County Board of Supervisors have reached an agreement to expand L3Harris’ solid rocket motor production in Orange County, Virginia.
A US Army CH-47F Chinook helicopter has performed its first “fully automated approach and landing” using Boeing’s Approach-to-X technology.
An Australian Federal Court has dismissed an appeal by former US Marine Daniel Duggan, clearing the way for his extradition to the United States, where he faces charges of illegally training Chinese military pilots more than a decade ago.
Federal Court Justice James Stellios rejected Duggan’s challenge on Thursday, ruling there was no jurisdictional error in the Attorney-General’s decision to approve the extradition.
As an educator, I have the duty and privilege of teaching some of the most intense and consequential moments in American history. Few lessons capture students’ attention quite like the Cuban Missile Crisis.
For 13 tense days in October 1962, the United States and Soviet Union stood on the brink of nuclear war. In classrooms across the country, students learn how close the world came to catastrophe and how leadership, intelligence gathering, and diplomacy ultimately helped prevent a devastating conflict.
Stew Magnuson, National Defense
The test will involve firing a Joint Air-to-Ground Missile from a Saildrone Surveyor robotic boat