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The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists appear to be stepping up their attacks on ships along Yemen’s coast. That includes a drone boat that hit M/V Tutor, a Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned and operated vessel in the Red Sea on Wednesday. The…

The U.S. military’s fleet of V-22 Ospreys won’t be allowed to fly unrestricted missions for another year, officials said, because of still-unaddressed risks with the tiltrotor aircraft. “Today, we are methodically looking at material…

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The U.S. is transferring one more Patriot air defense system to Ukraine, officials told the New York Times and Associated Press Tuesday. There’s already one such U.S.-provided Patriot system inside Ukraine. The second one will be…

China’s growing interest in opening more military bases abroad does not pose a big threat to U.S. forces in the next six years, RAND concludes in a new report out Monday. China is not well positioned to build foreign bases or run them in a…

An alleged former Chinese naval officer managed to sail a speedboat up a “strategic river mouth” that leads to Taiwan’s capital city of Taipei, and now authorities on the self-governing island are investigating how it could have happened,…

HONOLULU—The wargames began with a series of air assaults: a “forcible entry” by U.S. and Philippine soldiers swooping in on a dozen U.S. Army helicopters to seize a piece of land and “build up combat power.” Then the soldiers from both…

Ukraine’s military claims to have struck a stealth jet far inside Russia. The Su-57—one of just 16 in the Kremlin’s inventory—was parked at the Akhtubinsk air base more than 350 miles from the frontlines Saturday. If confirmed, it would be…

New: The U.S. is soon sending $225 million in more military aid to Ukraine. It’s the 59th such drawdown from the Defense Department’s munitions and equipment stockpiles in almost three years, the Pentagon said while detailing some of the…

New artillery shells have begun arriving to some embattled troops in Ukraine, but the totals still pale in comparison to what Russia continues to fire on a near-daily basis, the UK’s Telegraph and Estonian outlet ERR reported…