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The joint patrol first passed through a 12-mile-wide strait between Japan's main islands in an already significant show of force.

Project Pele is one potentially revolutionary, albeit controversial, answer to the military's growing battlefield energy requirements.

Northrop Grumman is now working to convert four RQ-4s as Range Hawks to gather data on the new breed of hypersonic weapons.

The military hopes its new mini nuclear reactor will lead to new battlefield energy capabilities and help power its sprawling installations.

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The swing-wing bombers are back at the remote Indian Ocean outpost at a time of rising tensions in the wider Asia-Pacific region.

The missile appears to be very similar to a mysterious short-range type that Kim Jong Un recently showed off at an arms showcase in Pyongyang.

These kinds of skills are increasingly seen as vital for the Navy to survive a future large-scale maritime conflict.

Growing threats to the homeland, especially from advanced cruise missiles, have prompted new initiatives aimed at defending key sites.

The aging rotorcraft filled a unique firefighting niche but maintaining them eventually became too troublesome.

The Turkish Air Force is at a crossroads after having been dumped out of the Joint Strike Fighter program.

Sitting right on Russia's back door, Shemya is home to the Cobra Dane radar and a strategic airfield that would be a prime target during a conflict.

The system could give China the ability to strike any target on Earth unpredictably, but so far Beijing is acting like the test didn't happen.

Such a capability could potentially allow China to execute a nuclear strike on any target on earth with near-impunity and very little warning.

Get cozy in our bunker and shoot the shit.

The Air Force is now looking at modernizing the High Speed Test Track at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico to support new hypersonic developments.

The green laser shooting down from the sky may look like a scene out of Stranger Things, but it has a very down-to-earth purpose.

The Advanced Tactical Trainer would likely also be expected to fly aggressor missions as part of a major overhaul of Air Force training.

Robot dogs have been met with equal parts fascination and fear by the public, but their utility for military applications is becoming undeniable.

General Dynamics Land Systems' TRX is a modular unmanned ground vehicle design, and versions of it will be headed to an Army experiment next year.