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'We own today's fight,' said Lt. Col. Tucker Hamilton, F-35 Test Director, Edwards AFB, told reporters. However, Tucker went on to say that, in the absence of aggressive modernization, sustainment and various improvement efforts, this will no longer remain the case. ...

The QBZ-95-1 is issued with a bayonet and, along with six WY-91 hand grenades, forms the firepower of the average PLA soldier. Each nine man PLA squad has two fire teams, with one grenadier per fire team. ...

In fact, because the Navy's reaction was so favorable, Lockheed later pitched a modified version of its NATF proposal for the ill-fated AF-X project that the Navy was ultimately forced to cancel in favor of the Joint Strike Fighter program. Some Navy officials are bitter about that fact to this day. ...

Once operational, this expanded F-35 intercept ability will better defend surface ships operating in the proximity or range of enemy missiles by giving integrating an ability to destroy multiple-approaching attacks at one time. ...

China should learn from Russia's Su-57 stealth fighter, according to Chinese media. The article in Chinamil.com , the Chinese military's English-language news site, was peculiar in that it both criticized and praised the Su-57, of which Russia has only built ten so far, ...

The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is the most visible, and possibly the most consequential, manifestation of China's emergence as a great power. In three decades, China has turned a large, but relatively minor regional force into a fleet of global consequence. But now that China has its navy, ...

Sinking an American carrier would be an act of war, period. If Chinese like Admiral Lou are right, then America is finished as a major power. If 10,000 dead American sailors aren't worth fighting over, then neither will the U.S. defend Taiwan, or Japan, or Israel, or Western Europe. ...

One of the most futuristic-looking handguns is also the product of one of Germany's oldest firearm companies. The P99, produced by Carl Walther GmbH, was originally designed as police pistol but has found commercial success in the United States and elsewhere. ...

The U.S. Air Force envisions three categories of airborne DEWs: lower-powered lasers for disrupting or damaging enemy sensors and seekers, a mid-level tier capable of burning incoming air-to-air missiles out of the skies, and high-power class capable of destroying aircraft and ground targets. ...

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) scrambled three U.S. and two Canadian aircraft to intercept two Russian Tu-160 'Blackjack' strategic bombers flying close to the Canadian Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), ...

HighlightsРІР‚' The end of the INF treaty would again place Europe between Russian and U.S. intermediate-range nuclear missiles. РІР‚' Withdrawing from the INF allows the U.S. military to build up a formidable arsenal of missiles to challenge China and Russia. ...

From crashing two aircraft in less than two week to being accompanied by massive tugboats wherever it goes, the last several years have not been kind to Russia's sole, geriatric aircraft carrier. Most recently, ...

While small arms and other infantry equipment cost far less than the Defense Department's modernization programs, they have not been a top Pentagon acquisition priority. For decades, troops have been complaining about the limitations of the M16 rifle and M4 carbine, ...

The U.S. Navy in late January 2019 confirmed the designation of its newest cruise missile, in the process clarifying its long-term plan for arming its growing fleet of warships. The plan heavily leans on one missile, in particular. It's the SM-6, ...

Behler writes that operational testing cannot begin until the program updates versions of the F-35's operating software, mission-data files, Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), and testing range infrastructure software. The troubled $1. ...

The Army has issued a formal call for industry partners toР’В  send in their prototypes Р’В for the Next Generation Squad Weapon program, a major step towards finally testing out a replacement for the M4 carbine and M249 squad automatic weapon. On Wednesday, ...

The Russian air force could receive the first of up to 50 new Tu-160M long-range bombers as early as 2021, defense minister Sergei Shoigu announced on Jan. 30, 2019. The air force wants 50 of the swing-wing bombers. But that goal could prove unrealistic for the cash-strapped Kremlin. ...

Chinese air force J-16 fighters are getting a new paint job that can reduce the type's radar signature. The state-run Global Times newspaper wrongly characterized the newly-painted J-16s as 'near stealth.' That's inaccurate. Radar-absorbing paint can shrink a plane's signature, ...

The egregiously expensive andР’В  notoriously unreliable Р’В F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are even more of a disappointment than you previously thought, according to a new Department of Defense assessmentР’В  obtainedР’В by Bloomberg News. The 2018 report from the Pentagon's operational testing and evaluation arm, ...

In 2018 Russia canceled mass production of its first new warplane in a generation, the stealthy Su-57. The Kremlin ordered its first dozen production-standard Su-57s in August 2018, hoping to form the first regular squadron some time in 2019. ...