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WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs officials issued a formal announcement this week that they are 'providing a new and unprecedented level of transparency to lawmakers in Congress.' Democratic lawmakers are asking if that's the case, ...

'This new philosophy will allow us to set an aggressive target for ourselves. Pilots will be better able to see an enemy or air-to-air asset coming their way,' Merchant said. The Air Force F-22 has been refining it dog-fighting skills, ...

France and Germany have stepped up their efforts to develop a joint Future Air Combat System (FCAS) by awarding Airbus and Dassault a first contract for the project, while Safran Aircraft Engines and MTU Aero Engines have announced a partnership to build the aircraft's powerplants. ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — The Navy's USS North Dakota submarine has returned from its first deployment.The military on Wednesday announced that the attack sub had returned to its homeport in Groton, Connecticut, after serving a six-month security mission in the European area.The $2.6 billion, ...

Cyber weapons have allowed Russia to reinvent deterrence on the cheap. Recent reports reveal a prolonged, systematic, and not particularly subtle Russian campaign to infiltrate the U.S. power grid. ...

Four-star Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel took to social media to apologize for a uniform gaffe committed while attending President Donald Trump's annual address before Congress on Tuesday night.'A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to the State of the Union last night,' Lengyel, ...

France's commitment to a cutting-edge sixth-generation fighter -- working in tandem with drones and long-range sensors -- is a sign of its commitment to deterring Putin's Russia.

As the Pentagon moves forward with tests on autonomous drone swarming technology, few doubt that the warfighting concept will work.But major questions persist, ...

The U.S. Navy is struggling to grow its fleet of aircraft carriers. In December 2016, then-Navy secretary Ray Mabus announced a new force-structure goal for the U.S. fleet. Under Mabus's plan, ...

Russia has successfully test-fired an RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from the Plesetsk spaceport in the Arkhangelsk Region in the country's north, the Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday. 'At 11:31 a.m. Moscow time on February 6, ...

Kel-Tec's offering differs in having a specific talent: folding down for compact storage. By rotating the barrel upwards and back, the Sub-2000 essentially folds over onto itself for an overall length of just sixteen inches and a height of seven inches. Once in the compact configuration, ...

The Indian Defense Acquisition Council, the Ministry of Defense's (MoD) principal procurement body chaired by Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, approved the procurement of 5,000 French-made second-generation MILAN anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM) on January 31. ...

The Marine Corps is looking for companies capable of designing and building variants of its Amphibious Combat Vehicle so it can perform missions such as carrying a 30mm cannon into battle.The Corps selected BAE Systems in June to build the ACV, ...

Canadian shipbuilderВ Seaspan Shipyards has awarded Lockheed Martin Canada a CAD118 million contract to provide the Command Management System for the Royal Canadian Navy's Joint Support Ships. Seaspan says this is the largest contract package the company will award for work on the JSS. ...

French defense contractor Naval Group has joined forces with Dutch shipbuilder Royal IHC in a bid to secure a contract for the Royal Netherlands Navy's submarine replacement project. ...

Marines will test new ways to take out far-flung targets from Navy ships and ashore during the next phase of a years-long experiment meant to prep leathernecks for the future fight.Long-range precision fires and command-and-control will be the focus of the next iteration of Sea Dragon 2025, Lt. Gen. ...

Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson met in January with top Air Force officials, including Secretary Heather Wilson, the Air Force told CNBC.They discussed the ways the Air Force can better partner with and invest in the private space industry.'If we can understand what a company needs ... ...

New survey results underline several issues that were brought to the forefront last year for troops and families: some dissatisfaction with housing, stressful relocations, and problems with access to health care. More than 10,000 family members, ...

After winning a contract in June 2018 from Lockheed Martin to develop and produce the F-35 Lightning II's next-generation electro-optical Distributed Aperture System (DAS), Raytheon is looking at also installing the camera technology on helicopters.As late as 2012, ...

PORTSMOUTH -- While making a pitch for building a wall along the Mexican border, Vice President Mike Pence thanked Coast Guardsmen for recently working without pay during the longest government shutdown in modern American history that was a result of a dispute over funding construction of the wall. ...

The Union Home Ministry has launched a massive recruitment drive to fill 76,578 vacancies, including 7,646 posts for women, in Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs).In a statement, the home ministry said out of these vacancies, 54, ...

Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Regina on Wednesday departed the Esquimalt naval base in company of support ship M/V Asterix, starting a deployment which will see the duo operate in the Pacific Ocean, Asia, Middle East and East Africa. ...

The recent visit of the DPRK's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho to Hanoi and the announcement that Vietnam will host a second summit between US President Trump and DPRK leader Kim Jong Un on February 27-28 have rekindled interest in how Vietnam's success story might have relevance for North Korea today. ...

Chinese hackers have done the math and have figured out that infiltrating the third-party companies that store confidential details about big businesses is more efficient than attacking each of those firms individually, Department of Homeland Security and information security analysts said. ...

The US has agreed to sell two state-of-the-art missile defence systems to Air India One for an estimated cost of $190 million, a move that will enhance the security of planes flying the prime minister and the president. According to the Pentagon, ...

A four-person vehicle crew with the U.S. Army's 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Europe won a personal victory in early February 2019 when they beat out other crews to claim their squadron's 'top gun' prize. But the crew's achievement underscores an uncomfortable fact for the U.S. ...

Marines from the 1st Marine Logistic Group formed a footbridge out of layers of concrete spewed from a 3D printer, and inВ a test of whatВ the service sees asВ the future of combat logistics. ...

The Indian Army is investigating two soldiers and a civilian over suspicions that insiders may have tipped militants off about the whereabouts of rifleman Aurangzeb, who was allegedly abducted and killed last June.The civilian, sources said, was a relative of one of the two personnel. ...

President Donald Trump has nominated a longtime NASA administrator to become the next director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), according to a Feb. 7 release from the White House. Christopher Scolese, currently the director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, would replace Betty Sapp, ...

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers introduced new legislation Thursday designed to block President Donald Trump's rules regarding transgender troops by removing any limits to their service. ...

This is the story.В  The United States Navy retired the venerable Grumman F-14 Tomcat in 2006 after more than three decades in service. However, the Tomcat's demise has left gaps in the carrier air wing that are only now being felt. With the end of the Cold War and declining budgets, ...

In recent years, robust dialogue and billions of dollars have been devoted to modernizing the nuclear triad, the three weapons systems that provide second-strike capability to deter adversaries from a nuclear attack on the United States. Yet, ...

CUCUTA, Colombia — Trucks carrying U.S. humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela arrived Thursday at the Colombian border, where opposition leaders vowed to bring them into their troubled nation despite objections from embattled President Nicolas Maduro. ...

SpaceX's Raptor engine 'just achieved power level needed' to lift the company's Starship rocket, CEO Elon Musk says.Starship will have seven Raptor engines on board, and the 'Super Heavy' booster that launches it will have 31 Raptor engines. ...

Even if the Raptors had run out of AMRAAMs and were forced to engage within visual range, the F-22s can use their stealth to close in unobserved to less than 1000ft to either kill the F-14s with Raytheon AIM-9X Sidewinders or 20mm Vulcan cannon fire. Indeed, ...

Sikorsky remains confident that the SB-1 Defiant helicopter it is jointly developing with Boeing can achieve a target speed of around 270kt (500km/h), even though the technology demonstrator is yet to leave the ground. ...

India was approved by the US State Department to purchase two Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures Self-Protection Suites for an estimated cost of $190 million.The self-protection systems would be installed on India's forthcoming head-of-state Boeing 777s, called Air India One, ...

At least 10 Maoists were killed in a major encounter that broke out in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Thursday. A senior police official told The Indian Express that eleven weapons were recovered and searches are still underway. ...

BB&T and SunTrust are combining to create the sixth-largest U.S. bank in $66 billion deal, the companies announced Thursday.The combined bank plans to focus on technology to compete with giants like J.P. Morgan and stay relevant among endless mobile and start-up banking options. ...

The Royal Navy received theВ long-endurance autonomous vessel known as the C-Enduro, vessel manufacturer L2 ASV announced on February 5. ...

On the very same day the U.S. Navy bid farewell to its last operational 'Legacy Hornets' at NAS Oceana, Virginia, the U.S. Marine CorpsВ Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), ...

Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) intensively tests the Kalashnikov RPK-16 light machine gun (LMG), according to the MoD's official newspaper, Red Star (Krasnaya Zvezda). 'The operational tests of the RPK-16 LMG are nearing their completion. ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon — The United States has cut some military aid to Cameroon over human rights concerns but the countries' relations remain excellent, the U.S. ambassador asserted Thursday, while the central African nation's government remained silent. France said it would not follow the U.S. ...

Troops agree with President Donald Trump that we should keep an eye on Iran — but that doesn't mean they want a big presence in Iraq to do so, the results of a recent Military Times poll suggest. On Sunday, Trump told CBS' 'Face the Nation' that he planned on moving the roughly 2, ...

Amazon invested in a self-driving car start-up named Aurora.Self-driving cars may help Amazon make deliveries. It's already hauling cargo with self-driving trucks.Aurora raised $530 million, some of which came from Sequoia. ...

A littoral combat ship is slated to deploy to the waters of U.S. Southern Command this year to battle drug smugglers, its top officer told lawmakers Thursday. SOUTHCOM commander Adm. ...

On 6 February, the Belgian Land Component, the Intelligence service (SGRS) of the Belgian armed forces, and the Belgian Special Forces gave a joint conference about the past, ongoing and forthcoming external operations carried on by the Belgian army. Maj.Gen. ...

The Portuguese Navy commissioned its fourth Viana do Castelo-class Offshore Patrol Vessel – the NRP Setubal – in a February 6 baptism ceremony at the West Seas shipyards, in Viana do Castelo. ...

To boost earthquake preparedness, Indian army will hold exercise Rahat. PRO Col. Sombit Ghosh said that exercise RAHAT being conducted by Jaipur-based Sapta Shakti Command of the Indian Army will invovle all stakeholders at the national as well as state level. ...

A sinkhole -- or, rather, sinkholes -- at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island has forced officials to close one of the base's major causeways.The causeway, which dates to the 1960s, is revealing of the depot's history and construction and has, in past years, ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md.— The new vice chairman of a Maryland legislative committee will deploy to Afghanistan 10 days before the legislative session closes. The Daily Record reports that Sen. Will Smith announced Wednesday that he's been called up to active duty effective March 29. ...

China's People's Liberation Army will reduce its army strength by 50% emulating some of the NATO nations that have lean and mean armies. The reduction in China's ground fighting force is expected to bring stability and structural transformation in the Chinese military. ...

Some doctors use printers to produce patient records or referrals. Others use them to replicate human organs. That's what Dr. Beth Ripley is doing at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Washington. Granted, ...

Joseph V. Micallef is a best-selling military history and world affairs author, and keynote speaker. Follow him on Twitter @JosephVMicallef.Roughly 12 weeks ago, French citizens in Paris took to the streets to protest the imposition of sharp, new taxes on fuel. ...

NEW LONDON -- Lockheed Martin, which owns Stratford-based Sikorsky, has pledged $1 million to the National Coast Guard Museum, the largest donation to date from the defense industry.The company will have a wing of the museum named after it called the Lockheed Martin Saving Lives by Air Gallery. ...

MOSCOW — Another U.S.-Russian nuclear pact is in danger following the U.S. move to withdraw from a Cold War-era arms control treaty, a senior Russian diplomat said Thursday.Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov charged that the U.S. ...

In yet another big boost to the Indian military, the Defence Ministry might soon consider the purchase of 54 Harop weapons from Israel ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.The Harop is an unmanned aerial weapon system manufactured by the Israel Aerospace Industries. ...

An annual membership survey from the organization Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) showed that less than half of surveyed members support a more gender-neutral version of the Department of Veterans Affairs' iconic motto: 'To care for him care who shall have borne the battle, ...

Germany's antitrust watchdog ruled on Thursday that Facebook abused its market dominance in collecting, merging and using user data. The competition authority said Facebook could no longer combine users' data from separate apps like WhatsApp and Instagram without voluntary user consent. ...

The Georgia Air National Guard is about to deploy its first black female pilot, Guard officials announced this week. 1st Lt. Andrea Lewis, an E-8C Joint STARS copilot with the 116th Air Control Wing, is already the first black female pilot in the history of the Georgia ANG. Soon, ...

Is Iran's military stronger than Israel's? Israeli media is abuzz over a website that ranks the world's armies—and placed Iran above Israel. Iran's armed forces ranked thirteenth in the world, according to GlobalFirepower.com's 2018 rankings, ...

CAPITOL HILL – The amphibious warship community and supporters on Thursday pushed for continued momentum for shipbuilding, amid growing concerns that the upcoming Fiscal Year 2020 ship construction plan may not be as generous as the 2019 plan was. Things are looking positive for amphibious force: ...

The U.S. Navy is poised to deploy a littoral combat ship to Latin America this year for a first-of-its-kind counter-drug mission, U.S. Southern Command's top leader said Thursday.Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Adm. ...

A single court injunction is all that's keeping the Pentagon from enacting new policy restrictions on transgender troops serving openly. But new bills introduced in the House and Senate on Thursday would pre-empt the policy and give transgender troops legal protection.In the Senate, ...

MOSCOW — A Taliban official said Wednesday that the United States has promised to withdraw half of its troops from Afghanistan by the end of April, but the U.S. military said it has received no orders to begin packing up.Taliban official Abdul Salam Hanafi, ...