The quick thinking of a B-52 crew during a mishap at Andersen AFB, Guam, averted a “more catastrophic incident” as the Stratofortress caught fire on the ground, the base said Thursday. Images of Thursday’s mishap on the Andersen flightline showed...

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will offer an amendment to the Fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act to increase military spending above the current caps, he said Thursday. McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said his amendment will...

Continuing to buy Russian-made rocket engines for US National Security Space launches is a symptom of the “military industrial congressional complex,” and constitutes “corruption,” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Thursday during a talk at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C....

The attempt to replace the Russian-made RD-180 rocket engine with a US-made one could, in a worst-case scenario, leave National Security Space payloads without a ride into orbit, the Congressional Research Service found. In a report released May 13, National...

The National Defense Authorization Act “should always be a bipartisan kind of bill,” but it has now turned partisan, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) said Thursday at an AFA space breakfast on Capitol Hill. “The defense sequester was supposed to be...

The House passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act late Wednesday night, which included 10 provisions from the American Space Renaissance Act, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), the sponsor of the space bill, said Thursday in Washington, D.C. The...

The Pentagon is pushing back on Chinese claims that a US Navy surveillance aircraft was flying in an unsafe manner, saying the aircraft was in international airspace when it was intercepted by two Chinese aircraft on Tuesday. “We believe our...

NATO members’ foreign ministers on Thursday formally invited Montenegro to become the alliance’s 29th member, despite Russian opposition. With the signing of the “Accession Protocol,” the Balkan nation can now observe all NATO meetings, but won’t become an official member...

Airmen of 314th Airlift Wing at Little Rock AFB, Ark., are working to bring a little-known part of their history back to the base. In their spare time, about 20 volunteers are restoring a Piasecki H-21 helicopter so that it...

An Aegis system successfully tracked a medium-range ballistic missile within Earth’s atmosphere Tuesday night. It was the first time the Aegis system was used to track a MRBM during its endo—or inside the atmosphere—phase of flight, according to a Lockheed...