The DARPA drone is not the first. The island state of Singapore developed and built MARSEC naval drones. These 30-ton drones are 16.9 meters long with a top speed of nearly 50 kilometers an hour and ...

The navy has been slow to adopt innovations because the U.S. Navy is the largest in the world and the American fleet is expensive to maintain and sustain. In the U.S. Navy, replacing older ships ...

NATO leaders, more than the distant Americans, realize that drones are a major threat. Europeans are developing a joint air defense system that now needs the ability to detect and destroy drones as ...

At the start of 2025 the UN authorized a new peacekeeping force of 11,900 troops. In February the U.S. carried out airstrikes against Islamic terrorists in Puntland, which is in northern Somalia.

Two F/A-18F Super Hornets fly overhead during the VX-31 change of command ceremony at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake on ...

The new Ukrainian swarms had drones capable of operating independently when jammed and continuing the attack with less accuracy and, because it is a swarm with dozens of drones, some are still going ...

American conscription was in effect during the Korean War when 1.5 million men were inducted into the military and conscription continued after from 1954 to 1961 with another 1.5 million men ...

By then North Korea was providing newly manufactured shells for Russian guns that could not get close enough to the front to be useful. North Korea also provided ballistic missiles and troops, so the ...

There is a dispute inside the U.S. government over exactly how much China is spending on defense. Last year worldwide defense spending reached a new high of $2.46 trillion. As it has been since World ...