After years of fumbling around trying to find a missile to partially replace the original system intended for the ship, the Hellfire has been adapted for vertical launch, and it did just that aboard the USS Detroit recently.
THAAD's arrival comes just hours after North Korea's most recent barrage of ballistic missile tests—but it's likely those tests were a response to THAAD, not the other way around.
Those big armored fighting vehicles are not inconspicuous—and that appears to have been the point.
The F-35's GAU-22 podded gun system lets open an inaugural burst from on high.
The revelation comes after Russian and Syrian airstrikes endanger US special operations forces and as a showdown between Kurdish rebels and Turkish forces may be imminent.
President Trump's new-found love for Lockheed's controversial super-fighter gets lampooned by Team Coco.
The mock targets look suspiciously like Iranian speedboats.
Unsurprisingly, the numbers suggest the 160th Special Operations Air Regiment, better known as the "Night Stalkers," have been particularly busy.
Special Operations Command and Air Combat Command are getting creative when it comes to poking holes in enemy anti-access and area-denial capabilities
It's an obscure Cold War-era technological relic that's still in use—and becoming increasingly relevant.
The images from the scene suggest an unfamiliar drone-launched weapon attacked Abu Khayr al-Masri's sedan with extreme precision and little collateral damage.
Joseph brings a unique set of skills to site, and adding a talented writer will provide more capacity to cover more stories in increasingly creative ways.
More evidence that some sort of nuclear incident has occurred in the increasingly tense and strategic region.
The BUFF is only getting finer with age, and in recent months it has been busy in the Middle East dropping hundreds of tons smart bombs on Islamic State fighters' foreheads.
Increased levels of radioactive iodine isotopes have been detected across Europe, and now the deployment of the Air Force's WC-135 "Constant Phoenix" atmosphere-sniffing jet has deepened the mystery.
The J-20's range just got longer and its flexibility enhanced.
There's one special place where these videos are shot: a Mecca for naval aviation training near a rural town along the southern California border.
Just another ominous reminder that weaponized unmanned systems are increasingly the weapon of choice of non-state actors and militant groups.
The presence of the spy ship has become a very hot (and overblown) topic in the media.