Another Dead End for Airborne Lasers: Air Force Scraps Effort to Mount Directed-Energy Weapon on Fighter Jet The Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator, or SHiELD, was envisioned as a laser weapon mounted on fighter jets such as...
Military Ospreys Can't Fly More Than 30 Minutes from Landing Airfield Months After Grounding Lifted Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy V-22 Ospreys were all given the green light to fly again in early March and have been slowly...
Ejection Seat Misfire Kills Air Force Instructor Pilot at Texas Base The pilot's death marks the latest incident with the T-6 and comes on the heels of a grounding of the aircraft two years ago...
Investigation Finds Navy Supply Ship Ran Aground After Captain Left to Eat Dinner The Alan Shepard was launched in 2006 and has space for a crew of more than 120, all of whom are typically civilian mariners...
Storied Marine Corps Jet to Make Final Appearance at Cherry Point Air Show as Service Transitions to F-35 The AV-8B Harrier II has been a tactical stalwart for the service since the 1980s -- and even before that, in different...
Apache Crash Injures 2 Fort Riley Soldiers as Army Grapples with Nonstop Aviation Incidents The pair of soldiers with the 1st Infantry Division's Combat Aviation Brigade were being treated for injuries after the crash...
US Drone Warfare Faces Questions of Legitimacy, Study of Military Chaplains Shows The American public tends not to question military action it perceives as rightful, and U.S. policymakers often reference the...
Marines' New Amphibious Combat Vehicle Makes Operational Debut in Annual Philippines Exercise The deployment of the vehicle occurred during Exercise Balikatan '24, which involved U.S. training with the Philippine...
Air Force Starts to Fly Some Ospreys Again Following Crash that Killed 8 Airmen in Japan The Air Force is the last among the services to return its Ospreys to the air following the Nov. 29 crash off the coast of...
Marine Corps Says It Wants Counter-Drone Capabilities 'Yesterday' as It Rushes to Roll Out New Systems Over the last five years, the Marine Corps has been improving its counter-drone systems as it looks to reshape the force and...
Man Charged with Assaulting Border Patrol Agent with Sandwich in DC Is an Air Force Veteran A man accused of throwing a sandwich at an immigration enforcement officer during President Donald Trump's federal takeover...
Gold Star Widow Fighting to Be Buried Next to Husband Has New Evidence A Vietnam War veteran’s widow and her family have uncovered a letter they say provides irrefutable evidence that she had a...
Zelenskyy Brings Europe's Top Leaders with Him to Meet Trump on Ending Russia's War Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is bringing with him to the White House an extraordinary cadre of European leaders to...
Three Republican-Led States to Send Hundreds of National Guard Troops to Washington West Virginia said it was deploying 300 to 400 Guard troops, while South Carolina pledged 200 and Ohio says it will send 150...
New Air Force Policy Denies Transgender Troops Hearings Before They're Discharged It is the second policy change the Air Force has taken in recent weeks to crack down on transgender service members.