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Navy leaders want to prevent a repeat of the problems that left the service's latest -- and most expensive -- aircraft carrier without any working weapons elevators.The Navy will build a new land-based test site for its advanced weapons elevators, Vice Adm. Thomas Moore, ...

Gun maker Heckler & Koch made a pair of classic Marine Corps jokes in a Facebook post about a shipment of M27 rifles headed to some Devil Dogs in Georgia. We wrote about the H&K's 'Marine proof' rifles for 'crayon eaters' on our Kit Up! blog. ...

Sig Sauer made a series of design tweaks to the Army Modular Handgun System last year that have improved the new pistol's reliability when firing 9mm ball ammunition, according to the newest annual report from the Pentagon's weapon's tester. ...

BERRIEN COUNTY, Mich. -- The wife of an Army sergeant killed in December admitted that she planned his killing together with another man, communicating on Snapchat in an attempt to hide their communications, according to statements she made to police.Kemia Hassel, 22, ...

The commanding officer of one of the Navy's coastal riverine squadrons has been fired, service officials announced Thursday.Cmdr. Randolph Chestang, Coastal Riverine Squadron 3's former commanding officer, was relieved of duty Tuesday 'due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command, ...

Stocky, but agile. It's one way to describe Lockheed Martin Corp.'s latest concept for a new F-16 Fighting Falcon variant for the Indian Air Force.In a pitch to the country Wednesday, ...

Rep. Mark Takano, D-California, has demanded to know just what it is that senior adviser Darin Selnick does for Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie and why he has to go back and forth to his California home at taxpayer expense twice a month to do it. ...

PORTSMOUTH -- The first notice last Thursday was terrifying: There was a report of an active shooter on a Navy shipyard.'Lockdown Lockdown Lockdown,' Norfolk Naval Shipyard wrote on Facebook. 'This is NOT a drill. ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A U.S. soldier grievously wounded in a suicide bombing two years ago in Afghanistan filed suit Wednesday against an American defense contractor that employed the bomber, ...

Heckler & Koch may be making and delivering thousands of M27 infantry automatic rifles to the Marine Corps, but that's not going to stop the company from taking a few jabs at jarheads.The U.S. branch of the German weapons maker is executing a contract, inked in April 2018, to deliver up to 15, ...

The U.S. Army recently awarded Raytheon Co. a $406 million contract to supply the service with aviation radios over the next five years.Raytheon will manufacture up to 5,000 ARC-231A radio systems that will be installed on the Army's existing helicopter platforms, according to a Feb. ...

The admiral responsible for developing and maintaining the Navy's ships defended the new $13 billion aircraft carrier that has faced heat from politicians and government watchdogs after a series of technological problems plagued its development.Vice Adm. Thomas Moore, ...

Nearly 200 injured U.S. Marines, veterans and international wounded warrior athletes are set to converge on Camp Pendleton to compete in a slew of different sports during the ninth annual Marine Corps Trials Feb. 26 to March 9. ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- The federal government has acknowledged that it shares its terrorist watchlist with more than 1,400 private entities, including hospitals and universities, ...

It's up to each airman to make sure he or she is fit for duty and able to deploy at a moment's notice. But commanders will keep tabs on whether an airman has been identified as non-deployable and should be recommended for retirement or administrative separation, ...

NEW IBERIA, La. — The Coast Guard has rescued two people and a dog from a fishing trip in a Louisiana bay.The Coast Guard said in a news release the people ran into problems Monday in Vermillion Bay. The vessel had left on the fishing trip Sunday and had not returned around 8:45 a.m. Monday. ...

A Coast Guard lieutenant assigned to the service's headquarters in Washington, D.C., has been arrested on drug and gun possession charges, and is accused of plans to 'murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,' according to documents filed in Maryland District Court.Lt. ...

If you are in the market for any size of military surplus vehicle, keep an eye on GovPlanet. The online auction house is about to start selling U.S. Navy and Marine Corps surplus M1161 ITV Growlers and seven-ton Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement trucks.Beginning in March, GovPlanet, ...

MARINE MOUNTAIN WARFARE TRAINING CENTER, Calif. — Hunkered down behind a wall of snow, two U.S. Marines melt slush to make drinking water after spending the night digging out a defensive position high in the Sierra Nevada. ...

Enemies can use social media to not only inexpensively find and target NATO forces but manipulate them, new research has found.Researchers with NATO's Strategic Communications Center of Excellence used open-source data -- primarily social media -- to identify 150 soldiers, ...