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The Russian military appears to have unleashed a new weapon on Ukraine for the first time on Thursday in northeastern Kharkiv. It's a 6,600-pound, air-launched glide bomb known as the FAB-3000 UMPK. It’s part of a wider Russian effort, as…

Is Israel's Rafah campaign winding down? Israeli military officials seem to suggest as much, flagging the alleged destruction of most of Hamas’s 24 battalions, including three of the four battalions believed to be operating inside…

New: Twenty-three out of 32 NATO members now meet the 2% of GDP target for defense spending, which is twice the number from just four years ago and the most ever to meet the 2% target, according to the latest figures released Monday by the…

Problems with the launcher and launch sequence of the new Long Range Hypersonic Weapon System will keep the U.S. Army from fielding its first LRHW battery until fiscal 2025, a government watchdog said Monday. The service aims to…

The Group of Seven member nations said China must do its part to “act responsibly” in the cyberspace domain and vowed to stop any damaging hacking activity linked to Beijing.On June 14—the second day of the 50th G7 Summit in Italy—the…

The paint has burned away from the missile launchers aboard the destroyer Laboon, one of the U.S. warships whose crew has just minutes or even seconds to respond to incoming fire in the Red Sea. “It is every single day, every single watch,…

The Army will name a new air-defense system for a Vietnam War hero amid a broader push for weapons that can ward off drones and other airborne threats.The name “Sgt. Stout” will apply to the Increment One variant of the Maneuver Short-Range…

The presidents of the U.S. and Ukraine signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement on Thursday that White House officials said “strengthen Ukraine’s ability to defend itself” and “reflect the close partnership between our two…

Updated: 3:07 p.m. ET.A year after inviting bids to design its next-gen fighter jet, the Air Force appears to be having second thoughts.“Do you think you can still do NGAD”—the planned Next Generation Air Dominance aircraft— “or is that…

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