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It's amazing just how close these huge tankers get to the sides of canyons and tops of ridges as they fight the spread of destructive wildfires.

While being able to export advanced unmanned air combat systems abroad more easily is great for business, it could come at its own price.

We can talk nuclear icebreakers, exporting killer drones, geopolitics, Cold War bunkers—you know, no big whoop.

The base is like a Cold War Disneyland that has been frozen in time. As such, studios go there to make fantasy come true on the big and small screen.

A proposed draft of the annual defense policy bill would prohibit services from getting rid of certain aircraft and order them to buy more of others.

The highly unique aircraft flew between China Lake and Mojave Air and Space Port in what appears to have been an aerial test.

The helmets are part of a laser tag-like training system that offers a way for Chinese troops to eliminate each other during exercises.

Separately, Turkish warships blocked the Greek Navy from boarding a cargo ship in the Mediterranean suspected of carrying arms to Libya.

Using explosive blasts to put out large fires is actually an established technique, but employing an anti-tank gun to do it is far less common.

The memo also calls for examining possible defensive armament options to protect these ships against near-peer threats.

The unusual flight certainly caught the attention of Beijing, which appears to be more focused on Taiwan's independence than ever before.

There are austere airstrips and then there's this.

Russia has decried that mission, as well as other American and NATO exercises around its borders in recent months, as provocative.

These types of exercises show off an air force's ability to launch large numbers of aircraft quickly in a crisis.

Concerns about new threats and challenges, especially from China, are pushing efforts both closer to and farther away from Earth.

The aircraft was conducting a nighttime landing at a base north of Baghdad at the time.

The system would allow a drone to be delivered to a defended target far away in a matter of minutes, where it could then hunt down its target.

The carrier just left on a cruise and it's packing a new electro-optical and infrared sensor system that will enhance its situational awareness.

The aircraft was finishing up a routine training mission when the mishap occurred.

The B61-12 is the latest in the B61 series, the longest-serving American nuclear bomb, and they will be worth more than their weight in gold.