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Reports that Russia might be developing a nuclear space weapon won’t change the Pentagon’s plans for a space-based communications network of hundreds of small satellites, a top Space Force leader said Tuesday. “It's one of those…

There’s a “real threat” that the budget impasse on Capitol Hill may delay the Pentagon’s planned low-Earth-orbit mesh network and a missile-defense program—and increase the future costs of other key programs, Space Force leaders said…

JUST IN: The Army National Guard has idled its rotorcraft for a safety review, following two crashes of AH-64D Apache helicopters. The stand down, which began Monday, follows a Feb. 12 crash in Utah that injured two soldiers and a Feb. 23…

Airman dies after self-immolation protesting Israel’s Gaza war: An active-duty airman set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., on Sunday after setting a phone to livestream his final words, which included a…

Saturday is the two-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which is believed to be Moscow’s most bloody conflict since the Second World War. “Two years later, we see even more vividly what we’ve known since day one:…

After attacking and nearly sinking a commercial vessel Monday, the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen are suspected of setting a different cargo ship on fire with a missile attack in the Gulf of Aden, British maritime authorities announced…

The Defense Department transferred Patriot air defense systems and various combat vehicles to Ukraine without a plan to sustain them long-term, which could lead to problems down the road, according to a report by the Pentagon’s…

As many as a thousand Ukrainian forces may have been captured or lost after the Saturday withdrawal of troops from the eastern city of Avdiivka, which Russian invasion forces have been trying to capture since at least October, the New York…

Russia recruited about 10 people to attack the cars of an interior minister and a journalist in Estonia last year, Estonian officials said Tuesday—a bizarre incident that shows the changing texture of Moscow’s efforts to undermine…

AURORA, Colorado—The U.S. Space Force wants a hotline with China to prevent crises in space, as China’s growing number of anti-satellite weapons challenge U.S. dominance in the domain. “We have to gain consensus among our allies and…