The Israeli military struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs early April 1, saying it targeted a member of the Hezbollah militant group. The airstrike came without warning days after Israel launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on March 28 for the first time since a ceasefire ended fighting between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militant group in November.
A dark mass of clouds hung low over North Charleston as Marine Col. Charles "Tre" Del Pizzo began his descent. It was a Sunday afternoon, late September 2023. Del Pizzo's hands were on the control stick and throttle of an F-35B Lightning II, the U.S. military’s most advanced stealth fighter, a $136 million supercomputer with wings. The F-35B can hover like a helicopter, and Del Pizzo planned to use that technology to land.
The United States has delivered the first advanced F-16 fighter aircraft to Taiwan, a self-governed island that is threatened by its powerful neighbor, China, with the use of force. ... According to photos published by Republican Rep. William Timmons of South Carolina on Facebook, the delivery was held on March 28 at Lockheed Martin's Greenville site in the state, which is the home of the F-16 production.
Suspected U.S. airstrikes struck around Yemen’s rebel-held capital overnight into March 31, attacks that the Iranian-backed Houthis said killed at least three people.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on March 30 ordered a 60-day review of military combat arms standards to ensure that exceptions are not being made for female troops to assume the physically demanding roles.
As it seeks to break into the American market, Brazil’s Embraer is willing to “adjust” investment in its KC-390 agile tanker to fund a purpose-built refueling boom for the U.S. Air Force, should the service’s Next-Generation Air Refueling System reassessment signal a faster paced acquisition approach.
One of the most highly anticipated confirmation hearings in recent memory is scheduled for April 1, when retired Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine—President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—will testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The Pentagon’s Chief Data and AI Office has launched a new series of experiments focused on improving data integration to allow operators to take better advantage of new command-and-control capabilities.
Declaring that “America first does not mean America alone,” U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth heaped praise on Japan, declaring in Tokyo on a swing through the Indo-Pacific that Japan is “our indispensable partner” in “deterring communist Chinese military aggression.” More broadly, Hegseth made clear at a press conference in Manila with Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro that these moves are part of what experts have long called the Pacific pivot, much promised and much delayed.
The bodies of three American Soldiers who had been missing since last week after their armored vehicle became trapped in deep mud during a military exercise in Lithuania have been recovered, the U.S. Army said March 31. A search for the fourth Soldier remained underway.
The U.S. Space Force is preparing a series of experiments to test in-space satellite refueling technologies, positioning commercial competitors at the forefront of an emerging sector of the space industry. The planned demonstrations, known as Tetra-5 and Tetra-6, will evaluate refueling hardware from Astroscale, Northrop Grumman, and Orbit Fab—companies vying for dominance in the nascent orbital refueling market.
The Trump administration has transferred 17 alleged gang members to El Salvador, the second such removal in two weeks ... U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said March 31 that a military plane flew the alleged Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gang members to El Salvador on March 30, in what he described as a “counterterrorism operation.”
One of the most famous aircraft on earth was caught ‘in the nude’ very recently as it underwent deep maintenance and upgrades at L3Harris’s Mission Integration plant at Majors Field in Greenville, Texas.
