Sikorsky's S-97 Raider Recon Helicopter Performs First Flight Demos for Army Leaders Sikorsky's S-97 is competing against Bell Textron Inc.'s 360 Invictus single-rotor prototype helicopter for the Army's FARA...
Army's Precision Grenadier Program Is About to Face Its First Real Test Army Futures Command will soon decide whether weapons officials will get another shot at equipping infantry squads with a...
It's Official: The Air Force's New F-15EX Fighter Will Be Called the Eagle II The Air Force's new F-15EX fourth-plus generation fighter has been named the Eagle II in a salute to its predecessor, the F...
Air Force's Hypersonic ARRW Missile Fails First Flight Test The AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon booster vehicle failed to launch from a B-52 Stratofortress during an April 5...
Marines' Drone-Killing Lasers Get Even More Powerful After Upgrades The Corps has a new $2.5 million agreement with Boeing to service its Compact Laser Weapon System for the next five years.
Future Navy Carriers Could Have More Drones Than Manned Aircraft, Admiral Says Like the Air Force, the Navy will take a "family of systems" approach to its next-generation air dominance, or NGAD, program.
The Air Force's Virtual Reality Fighter Training Is Working Best for 5th-Gen Pilots The Air Force is finding that virtual reality fighter pilot training is working best for students who want to fly the most...
Cold-Weather Gear Company Partners With Air Force to Create Lightweight Flight Suit Oros Apparel has been awarded a SBIR Phase I contract that will explore how the company's SolarCore tech can be integrated...
Army Wants to Finally Replace Decades-Old MILES Gear for More Realistic Force-on-Force Training The current system allows soldiers to do things like hide behind a bush from a flurry of machine-gun and laser bullets.
Is Augmented Reality the Future of Dogfight Training? This Company Thinks So A company wants to prepare more Air Force fighter pilots to dogfight Chinese and Russian opponents by using artificial...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
