Ukrainian forces have launched a major new offensive in Russia’s Kursk region, a region that Ukraine captured parts of over the summer but has in the past few months struggled to hold amid pressure from Russian and North Korean forces.
The State Department has informally notified Congress of a planned $8 billion weapons sale to support Israel’s long-term security by resupplying stocks of critical munitions and air defense capabilities, a U.S. official familiar with the details confirmed to CBS News on Jan. 4.
A traffic jam is forming at U.S. rocket-launch sites. Elon Musk’s SpaceX and other rocket companies are planning to increase flights in the years ahead as they ferry their own satellites or payloads for other customers to space. The problem: Only three sites in Florida and California handle most U.S. rocket launches, and those locations are expected to become increasingly congested as companies and regulators schedule more missions.
In recent weeks, reports of drone swarms over the United States’ East Coast have brought fears of hybrid warfare to widespread attention. Only 100 out of 5,000 drone sightings there required further examination, U.S. officials said, and so far none are believed to have been foreign surveillance drones. But it is a different story for the drones spotted in late November and early December over military bases in England and Germany where American forces are stationed.
Over the past year, the Department of Defense has set the stage for how it wants to strengthen cybersecurity and information technology infrastructure against adversarial threats, namely the People’s Republic of China. But with another Donald Trump presidency on the horizon, all eyes are on him to see if he keeps the existing programs afloat or scales them back. Simultaneously, some cybersecurity experts and lawmakers have predicted that the president-elect will stand up a new cyber service.
When Congress authorized the creation of the Space Force in December of 2019, the service’s leadership viewed its small size as an asset. ... Since then, the service’s budget has doubled to around $30 billion in fiscal 2025, and today’s leaders have called for even more resources in the coming years to strengthen the military’s defenses against adversaries in space, build an arsenal of offensive-capable systems and take on new missions.
An inside look at the life of a Ukrainian Su-27 Flanker fighter pilot in the country’s war with Russia is the focus of a recently released video from the Ukrainian Air Force. The interview with the Su-27 pilot, callsign “Viking,” is a rare opportunity to hear about some of the challenges—and successes—of the Ukrainian Air Force’s fighter fleet, which, despite the recent introduction of F-16s, is still dominated by the Soviet-era Su-27 and MiG-29 Fulcrum.
The FBI has identified Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar—who was also briefly in the Navy’s delayed entry program—as the suspect in the attack on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street. Separately, the Army released the service record of Special Forces soldier Matthew Livelsberger, whom investigators believe was the driver of a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Livelsberger shot himself before the truck exploded. The deadly incidents immediately prompted speculation online about the alleged perpetrators’ shared service.
The State Department on Jan. 2 approved a possible $3.64 billion foreign military sale of RTX-made Advanced Medium-Range Air-To-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs) to Japan, including up to 1,200 missiles and associated additional guidance sections.
While Marines wait for new F-35s, officials say recent delivery delays haven't altered their goal to fully switch to the fifth-generation stealth fighter jet by the end of the decade. The service is replacing its aging F/A-18 Hornets with F-35s, a massive effort complicated by a year-long pause in deliveries of the newest version of the jet.
The Pentagon’s strategic capital office will focus its 2025 investments on 15 industry segments it thinks could most support U.S. national security needs, including spacecraft, microelectronics materials and manufacturing, and biochemicals.
Less than a year since the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit entered its new era dubbed DIU 3.0, the innovation hub has its eyes set on further scaling operations and bringing more non-traditional contractors into the department’s ecosystem.
A 23-year-old cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy died this week while at home with her family, the academy said in a Facebook post. Cadet 1st Class K. Emily Jean Foster died due to complications from brain tumors that were discovered just two weeks before her death, on Dec. 14, 2024.
The Air Force and Navy secretaries, along with commanders of the combatant commands, must take a deep look at existing inventory requirements for air-to-air missiles and consider whether to adjust acquisition plans, according to the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act.
Dave Crete was sitting around with some fellow Air Force veterans he worked with almost three decades prior on the Nevada Test and Training Range when they broached the topic of tumors. It was an unexpected conversation among the eight, but an enlightening one, said Crete, who found out six of his former crewmates had undergone tumor removal procedures.
President Biden on Jan. 3 awarded the Medal of Honor to seven U.S. Army Soldiers, most of whom received it posthumously for service during the Korea War, in his last ceremony as commander-in-chief awarding the country’s highest military honor.
