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The big swing-wing bomber has never looked so good.

The business suit-clad killer was shouting about Aleppo.

We likely got a glimpse of a unique (and evolving) contingency plan for president-elect Trump. 

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This step is likely just the start of what will be a major and rapid buildup of weapons capabilities on China's island outposts.

Lately, all the P-8 can do is win, and VP-5 brought the jet’s unique capabilities to one of the world's most complex security environments for the very first time.

Israel’s first F-35Is and Saudi Arabia’s first F-15SAs arrive as the geopolitical landscape rapidly shifts in the Middle East.

In his first sit-down interview since the election, Donald Trump targets the F-35 program, the defense-industrial complex’s “revolving door,” and why he doesn’t need daily intel briefings.

And you wonder why defense procurement is such a mess?

The USMC has been shedding Hornets from its tired fleet at an alarming rate.

The Air Force One replacement program is perfect political red herring for the new administration—and the president elect has a long history of owning lavish old aircraft.

The Taliban originally claimed they shot the helicopter down.

An Su-33 was lost from the Admiral Kuznetsov’s air wing while attempting to recover aboard the ship.

The Air Force is making another attempt at replacing its Vietnam-era ballistic missile support and VIP helicopters.

The Tern program is rapidly moving forward. If successful, it could bring a whole new set of capabilities to US Navy destroyers, cruisers and littoral combat ships.

Moscow said it would swat Kiev’s missiles out of the sky with surface-to-air missiles located in fortress Crimea and on Russian warships. According to Ukraine, that never happened.

Tehran sets its eyes on larger naval footprint abroad.

Russia's carrier air wing appears to have migrated ashore following crash, meanwhile Assad's forces make big gains in war-torn Aleppo and US realizes its first combat death in Syria

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