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Amid news of the partnership and the Navy's questionable budget plan for the program, we talked to General Atomics and got their take.

Unless something else changes, the service's plan would put the United States on course to violate the New START agreement.

The service long neglected land-based anti-ship weapons, but its rushing to fill the gap as threats emerge, especially in the Pacific.

The Polar Star is the only ship the United States has to cut paths through the toughest Arctic and Antarctic ice.

The improved 33,000 pound bunker busters would be a key part of any "bloody nose" strike on the reclusive communist country.

Three hour battle with Assad's forces is a reminder that other parties may not give the US the choice of staying out of Syria's civil war.

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.