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Assuming the F-35B is able to survive against Russian air defenses, four jets flying four sorties per day could potentially devastate a Russian armored brigade. Given the Russian threat, the United States Air Force should consider adopting some number of F-35B wings for the European theater. ...

The Army may be working overtime to field aВ  more powerful rifle В to replace the M4 carbine and M16 rifle that soldiers have beenВ  complaining about for years , but that's not stopping the branch from buying more: ...

With every passing day that ticks off the calendar, the world is that much closer to a summit in Hanoi, Vietnam that could determine whether the eight months of diplomacy between the United States and North Korea have a shot at success. ...

Is this reallyВ a good idea?В  The Israeli company Silver Shadow recently attracted attention for its double-barreled AR-type rifle, the Gilboa DBR Snake. For the most part, it's an AR, uses AR parts and fires the 5.56-millimeter AR round. Except that it has two separate barrels, ...

The People's Liberation Army Navy has no recent combat experience and no hope of challenging the U.S. Navy on a global scale. The U.S. Navy outnumbers and outclasses China's sailing branch in practically every category — not just technologically. ...

Soldiers and infantry Marines could use the range and the punch of the system sooner rather than later. ...

One day at the auction house, someone left a pile of guns on the ground. This was not at all unusual. At the very bottom, wrapped in moving blankets, was a pile of scrap metal. ...

The F-35I will also be certified to carry major Israeli-developed weapons systems in its internal weapons bay, notably including the Python-5 short-range heat-seeking air-to-air missile, and the Spice family of glide bombs, which combine electro-optical, ...

The Corps proved, in a fall 2018 demonstration in Arizona, that an F-35 stealth fighter can pass targeting data to a rocket battery, improving its accuracy. A Marine F-35B detected a metal container on the ground and passed the GPS coordinates via radio data-link to the HIMARS crew. The U.S. ...

Lockheed Martin in mid-February 2019 offered to sell India a new fighter the company calls the 'F-21.' Only it doesn't look like a new fighter at all. The F-21 looks like an F-16. In fact, the F-21 is an F-16 that Lockheed has upgraded with new cockpit displays, conformal fuel tanks, ...

AsВ enemy fighters closed in on a US Air Force 4th Generation fighter aircraft, blinding the jet with electronic warfare attacks, an experienced pilot faced unseen life-threatening attackers closing in -- during an air-combat Red Flag exercise closely replicating actual warfare scenarios.Yet, ...

America depends on airpower. Airpower underpins the military options leaders use to enhance deterrence and if deterrence fails, to fight and win with minimum casualties.A key element of America's airpower is the fighter force. Historically, ...

Here is the latest... The US Navy is making an aggressive push toward 'offensive' mine warfare designed to attack and destroy enemy ships and submarines with undersea explosives - all while preparing a complex suite of interwoven mine countermeasure technologies. ...

Russia's MiG-29 first flew in 1977. Forty-two years later it's one of the most numerous warplanes in the world. As of 2018, around 820 MiG-29s and variants were in service, accounting for six percent of all the world's military aircraft. But as far back as 2001, ...

Turkey has decided to join the aircraft carrier club. Within two years, the Turkish Navy will accept the delivery of TCG Anadolu, the largest and most formidable warship to join the fleet in over one hundred years. ...

TASS also reports the Poseidon, -- the name was chosen in a Web contest held by Russia's Ministry of Defense – will be armed with a 2-megaton warhead. That's more than enough to destroy a city. (This first appeared in December. ...

In many ways, the battleship represented the greatest-ever concentration of naval power in a single vessel. Between World War I and World War II, the big, fast, thickly-armored and heavily-armed warships dominated the world's oceans.В And then, very quickly, ...

Displacing twenty-six thousand tons, the Kirovs dwarfed previous Soviet surface ships. Indeed, the United States itself had not constructed surface warfare vessels of this size since World War II. Only aircraft carriers and large, flat-decked amphibs exceeded the Kirov's in size. In theВ 1970s, ...

Leaving aside the recent hurricane damage, accidents have destroyed at least two front-line F-22s and two test planes and badly damaged several others. ...

The Pentagon's fringe-science Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has just released a video of its Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance, or EXACTO, in action.The video depicts a target … and  another aim point a couple feet to the right. The EXACTO bullet arcs toward the second aim point. ...