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The Falcon 9 booster had unexpectedly survived a test and splashed down mostly intact off the coast of Florida.

The US-backed coalition responded with air or artillery strikes to drive attackers away from one of its forward bases in the country.

The service wants to put off critical testing for years, but a recent Pentagon report says the USS Ford barely works in optimal conditions.

The United States says it just delivered more than 800 Copperhead projectiles to Lebanon replenish the country's stockpiles.

The test could be a response to growing regional ballistic missile threats or a cover for anti-satellite weapons development.

The service has taken over the project from DARPA and is looking to transform it from an experiment to an operational asset as fast as possible.

The service says it somehow still needs more information, despite a decade of studies, evaluations, and other experiments with the concept.

The head of the service's aviation arm is eager to get modern choppers, too, but says fixed-wing planes make more sense in various situations.

The Turkish operation has laid bare the complexities of the situation in Syria, threatening to spark a new phase in an already brutal conflict.

The Kremlin looks to be using the intercepts to try and force the United States to accept a new status quo around Crimea.

The North Koreans reportedly hope to scare the United States into backing down from possible plans for a preventive strike.

A functioning railgun fitted to a ship would signify a massive accomplishment for China and it would be a source of major concern at the Pentagon.

Those concerns come as Kabul becomes even more dangerous and amid reports that US officials are hiding key details about America's longest war.

The future M2A5 could either carry more troops and other equipment or get a boost in firepower, along with a variety of other upgrades.

A Pentagon report reveals the guns continued to suffer jams and other malfunctions after winning an already controversial competition.

Special Operations Command is spending millions on new turrets amid reports that the vehicles are too vulnerable for actual combat.

The air war over Afghanistan is rapidly heating up and a huge deployment of Reapers drones is the latest major development.

The firm hopes the gun's mix of elements from its G36 and HK416 rifles, as well as other manufacturers' guns, will get the German Army interested.

A new Pentagon report says that gun routinely fails and that the plane's basic design also causes the 105mm shells on board to fall apart.

Since 2015, the US Navy has been finalizing requirements for a weapon to make sure its jets can break into increasingly heavily defended areas.