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The U.S. Air Force has redeployed half dozen F–35A fifth generation fighters to RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom on February 9, according to flight tracking data, representing one of the latest developments in a more than month long surge in the U.S. military presence in Europe and the Middle East. The fighters were deployed by the Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing, and departed Burlington Air National Guard base on the morning of February 9 accompanied by three KC–135 Stratotankers which provided refuelling support.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel — not American service members — shot down an object with a military laser earlier this week near El Paso, Texas, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
Troops with Joint Task Force – Southern Border were not authorized to shoot down drones in the area. The task force — which works hand-in-hand with federal law enforcement and serves as the primary military entity for the U.S.-Mexico border mission — trained CBP personnel on the equipment who used it during the incursion.

Basic training, which often involves getting yelled at and having your head shaved, is typically not a fun experience for military recruits. But now getting there is less of a hassle.
The Defense Department is teaming up with the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, to allow recruits headed to basic training who don’t have a REAL ID to get through airport security without having to pay a fee, a Pentagon official said.
Under the new process, which began on Feb.

Every Southern California neighborhood takes on a certain kind of look after a wildfire. The mountains still sit there as if nothing happened, the sky eventually turns blue again, but entire blocks go quiet. The familiar silhouettes of roofs and trees are replaced by chimneys and walls standing alone, punctuation marks for the end of a tragic sentence.
That was the reality after a wildfire tore through Eaton Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains in 2025, ripping into Altadena and nearby foothill communities. The fire started on Jan.

Marine Corps officials said they are implementing five major changes across its fleet of MV-22 Osprey aircraft, including major overhauls of its transmissions, after nearly 20 accidents across the services in a roughly two-year span. A federal watchdog that reviewed the aircraft said the service still has yet to show a “systematic” way of addressing risks.
The Tuesday release of the “2026 Marine Aviation Plan” confirmed that the service is continuing to replace older gearbox components across the fleet with new ones made of harder steel.

When “Major Payne” hit theaters in 1995, it arrived disguised as a broad military comedy, led by Damon Wayans at the height of his pop-culture reach. On the surface, the film looked like a simple fish-out-of-water story: a hyperlethal Marine Corps officer forced out of combat and reassigned to train a group of wildly undisciplined junior ROTC cadets.
What followed, however, became something far more enduring than a mid-90s comedy.

The National Reconnaissance Office has selected the first tranche of companies for its nascent contracting vehicle aimed at evaluating emerging technologies for the spy agency’s missions.
The NRO announced Tuesday that HEO, SatVu and Sierra Nevada Corporation are contracted for the Strategic Commercial Enhancements program. The effort is designed to allow the agency to test out how commercial satellite data can be integrated into its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations.

In 2022, Vasabjit Banerjee and Benjamin Tkach wrote, “After Ukraine, Where Will India Buy Its Weapons,” where they explore India’s various defense systems acquisition relationships. Four years later, amid changing geopolitical dynamics and Russia’s ongoing war, we asked them to revisit their arguments.Image: Creative Commons, Flickr user cell105In your 2022 article, “After Ukraine, Where Will India Buy Its Weapons?,” you argued Russia was struggling to meet its weapons export commitments due to a buildup of debt, sanctions, and battlefield losses.

The US Army conducted a successful flight test of the Extended-Range Guided Multiple-Launch Rocket System at White Sands Missile Range.

The Navy has been heavily involved in combat operations in recent years, including two lengthy campaigns against Houthi rebels in Yemen, during which sailors were pitted against enemy drones, missiles, unmanned boats, and other threats. 
U.S. sailors have not faced a peer adversary since World War II, when the Navy fought against German submarines, helped the Allies come ashore in North Africa and Europe, and waged titanic battles against the Japanese across the Pacific. But the sheer variety of threats facing sailors today has not been seen since then, said retired Navy Capt.