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Iraq is holding up the plan, but it's also hard to understand how the US military didn't fix this defensive gap earlier given the known threats.

All of the individuals who fly these highly specialized planes, all of which are forward-deployed in Afghanistan, volunteer for the job.

The aircraft is one of just four the service operates to provide critical data fusion and communications relay capabilities.

How the top-secret unit came to be is so outlandish that it sounds like fiction, but as this first-hand account details, it was anything but.

Proponents argue that the warheads give the United States added deterrent flexibility, but critics warn they lower the threshold for using nukes.

On the first night of the invasion of Iraq, securing Saddam's deepwater port was crucial. Here's an aviator's first-hand account of how it went down.

The uncommonly large set of launches comes as the U.S. is developing multiple new warheads for the Trident II as a new arms race with Russia looms.

These developments point to a major escalation in Turkey's involvement in the conflict following abortive attempts to broker a ceasefire.

Turkey is racing to prop-up Libya's internationally-recognized government, which is losing ground to its rivals.

Documents describe the unique planning that went into bringing the flying-wing reconnaissance drones to the Korean Peninsula and more.

Despite months of similar strikes, this appears to be the first publicly acknowledged instance where any rockets actually hit the Embassy compound.

We can talk about B-52s with ballistic missiles, stealthy target drones, geopolitics, Jean-Luc Picard—you know, no big whoop.

Air-launched ballistic missiles are back in vogue now, so it's worth remembering that the Air Force was looking to adopt one more than 50 years ago.

The Royal New Zealand Air Force's A-4Ks performed multiple variations of the unique and challenging maneuver at air shows for years.

No character delivers stunning moral clarity better than Jean-Luc Picard, which makes him more relevant now than ever before.

The British Army has modified a Challenger 2 to be ideally suited for fighting tomorrow's wars in megacities.

The missile, details about which are scant, has at least some development hurdles to overcome and is still years away from entering service.

This past work is more relevant than ever now that the company says it is switching from focusing on space launches to hypersonic testing services.

The team was supposed to get an ex-Royal Air Force C-130J to replace its previous Fat Albert transport very soon.

The Operational Fires system is intended to be a tactical weapon for the Army and could help in clearing paths for follow-on air and missile strikes.