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U-2s are notoriously challenging to land under the best conditions. A loss of key mechanical systems would make doing so even more complicated.

A widely circulated report concludes that a new airfield near a luxury resort is a Chinese outpost, but the evidence is far from conclusive.

Russian troops were also present at the time, underscoring just how complex things are for American forces in the country.

Officials decided to try this approach to help contain a fire spreading at a military training range that is threatening nearby communities.

The dramatic video may serve as yet another warning of America's glaring short-range air defense gap and the threat that low-end enemy drones pose.

The Navy's goal is to design a submarine that is better-optimized for attacking other ships and subs than its existing Virginia class boats.

The Air Force will focus on a different hypersonic weapon, using a more complex boost-glide vehicle for its warhead, for its B-52 bombers.

These are exceptionally young ships to be pulled from service, underlining just how problematic and useless they truly are.

This is our first good look at the kind of activity, especially off the East Coast of the United States, that the US military has been warning about.

The technology could lead to new and improved ballistic missile designs with greater reliability, flexibility, and added range.

If personnel in a missile alert facility are incapacitated for some reason during a crisis, it doesn't mean that the missiles launch automatically.

The crazy departure is just part of the story. This is the third time the bogus registration N818LD has been found on Hawker 125 narco-jets.

We can talk about automatic doomsday machines, retiring the B-1B, geopolitics, WWI-era weapons still on the modern battlefield—you know, no big whoop.

Iran's nascent space launch program is very real, but you might not know it from the absurd propaganda about its purported manned spaceflight plans.

The wall of Warthogs put on quite the fireworks show off the coast of Dubai.

The symbol originated with anarchist political movements, but has since migrated to other less political media, including popular television shows.

After years of flying exotic airships, the company plans to create massive orbital platforms and V-shaped airships that float slowly up to space.

It doesn't hurt that it is chambered in the Russian standard 7.62x54mm cartridge, variations of which are still in widespread use after 129 years.

The impending deployment comes as the U.S. military is looking to send its own Patriots to Iraq, possibly drawing on units it has now in Saudi Arabia.

Increased Russian sub activity means that the Navy no longer views sailing off the East Coast or across the Atlantic to be "uncontested" movements.