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The Pentagon maintains that the U.S. has not changed its posture in aiding Israel as Biden administration shows increasing frustration with deadly Israeli military operation in Gaza.

The Dutch and Danish governments have pledged to Ukraine many of the F-16s their air forces are putting into storage as new F-35 stealth fighters gradually replace them.

Training demands mean Ukraine won't get F-16s until next year at the earliest and substantial combat proficiency will take much longer.

As Turkey blocks Sweden and Finland's entry into NATO, the F-35 is not a carrot the US will dangle, Adam Smith says.

The two countries are steadily becoming fast friends. Why?

By Jim Garamone, DOD News WASHINGTON — The Secretary of Defense has the authority needed to order all members of the military – including the National Guard – to receive Covid-19 vaccinations, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said during a news conference Nov. 15. The mandate to get the vaccin

The United States’ flying branch would like to break its reliance on hard-to-protect fuel supply chains and synthesize jet fuel from atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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Print this article Political theater ran high when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley to contain President Trump’s ability to launch a nuclear strike in his final days, but a military legal expert and the nuclear commander said the military is under no obligation to follow an illegal, immoral, or unethical order. “[There is] some fuzzy ground,” Steve Bucci, a Heritage Foundation military law expert and former adviser to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, ...

U.S. Air Force Air Force pilots in the not-so-distant future could fly and fight together like Luke Skywalker and R2-D2. One of the Air Force’s top officials is confident the service’s secret new fighter jet will have an artificial intelligence copilot. The AI could take over key tasks, flying and fighting the plane, to prevent the human pilot from being overwhelmed. The U.S. Air Forces secret new fighter jet, which it designed, built, and tested in just one year, will feature some kind ...