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14 May 2024, 12:15

China's new aircraft carrier is being tested at sea for the first time, but US carriers 'remain in an echelon of their own,' expert says

China launched the first sea trial of its most advanced aircraft carrier, but it still falls short of US Navy carrier standards, an analyst told CNN.

14 May 2024, 04:19

The US Air Force is teaching AI to navigate aircraft in case GPS gets taken out in a future fight

In future combat where GPS navigation options can be jammed or eliminated, AI could help aircraft fly by following Earth's magnetic fields.

11 May 2024, 15:18

The US military isn't ready for the coming drone war

Drone fights worse even than those in Ukraine are the likely future of war, and the US is scrambling to get its troops ready.

24 Oct 2019, 21:31

Brazil is blaming Venezuela for a mysterious oil spill on its beaches, and it's sending 5,000 troops to clean up the mess

Oil has been washing up on beaches in northeastern Brazil since early in September. Brazil is blaming Venezue...

24 Oct 2019, 20:56

ISIS is staging attacks in symbolically important places to send a message: We're back

ISIS fighters in Iraq attacked a security checkpoint at Allas oil field this week, formerly a major source of income for the...

24 Oct 2019, 15:53

Videos emerge showing apparent atrocities in northern Syria as US envoy says Turkish-backed rebels have committed war crimes

Twitter/ONC3X A video purporting to show a Kurdish man killed by the Turkish-backed Free Syria Army (TFSA) po...

24 Oct 2019, 15:12

An internal memo warned that the White House might get hacked again because so many cybersecurity officials have resigned

An internal White House memo written by a senior cybersecurity official at the time, obtained by Axios, warne...

24 Oct 2019, 10:34

Edward Snowden said he couldn't find any evidence that the government was hiding aliens when he searched through CIA databases

Rosdiana Ciaravolo/Getty Images Edward Snowden in connection from Russia during the Wired Next Fest 2019 at t...

24 Oct 2019, 04:11

The Navy secretary blasted Congress for criticizing the service's $13 billion carrier and threw the shipbuilder under the bus

Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer at an event Wednesday sharply criticized Congress for disparaging the a...

24 Oct 2019, 04:04

The US may still punish Turkey over Syria and Russian weapons - here's how it can avoid making things worse

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque President Donald Trump with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey at the UN General Assembly in Ne...

23 Oct 2019, 22:09

Half the US Navy's aircraft carrier fleet can't deploy, but the service says it has what it needs to maintain the fleet

Associated Press USS George Washington At least 6, possibly 7, of the US Navy's aircraft carriers are unable ...

23 Oct 2019, 17:46

Iraq says US troops leaving Syria can't redeploy there and have to leave in 4 weeks, a fresh embarrassment in Trump's botched withdrawal

Hadi Mizban/AP US Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Iraqi Defense Minister Najah al-Shammari outside Iraq's de...

23 Oct 2019, 13:26

Putin and Erdogan agreed a 'historic' to consolidate power in Syria and humble Kurdish forces. Here are the winners and losers.

Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Turkish President Recep T...

23 Oct 2019, 11:02

Soldiers in the Army National Guard are being encouraged to perform physical exercise before using the bathroom

Guardsmen from the Utah Army National Guard implemented a policy of doing physical exercise prior to using th...

23 Oct 2019, 10:06

Only 3 of the 11 advanced weapons elevators on the $13 billion USS Gerald R. Ford are ready, and the carrier is going to deploy years behind schedule

US Department of Defense USS Gerald R. Ford underway on its own power for the f...

23 Oct 2019, 02:21

A top Marine Corps scout sniper managed to sneak up on his enemy completely naked except for a pair of boots

Snipers train to disappear in any environment in stalking exercises, where snipers attempt to sneak up on a s...

23 Oct 2019, 00:52

US Marines teamed up with the Philippines and Japan for a 'Warrior of the Sea' exercise

US Marines and sailors teamed up with Phillippine marines and Japanese Self-Defense Force personnel for Exercise KAMANDAG 3 ...

22 Oct 2019, 17:25

Trump's plans for pulling out of Syria were embarrassingly disrupted by Iraq, which said the US isn't allowed to redeploy on its soil

US troops leaving Syria for Iraq hit a hurdle Tuesday after Iraq said it hadn't given permission for them to ...

22 Oct 2019, 05:57

US military officials are drawing up plans for a quick withdrawal in Afghanistan, just in case Trump abruptly pulls them out

Pfc. Cameron Boyd US Army soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, March 201...

Rape, medical experiments, and forced abortions: One woman describes horrors of Xinjiang concentration camps

22 Oct 2019, 05:17

Mexico freed 'El Chapo' Guzman's son after a counterattack by his henchmen, but it's not the first time a cartel has taken on the government

An attempt by the Mexican government to capture one of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's sons on Thursday prompted ...

21 Oct 2019, 20:24

Professional hackers managed to sneak fake horoscope apps past Amazon and Google that spied on people's conversations with Alexa and Google Assistant

Whitehat hackers have proven that it's possible to develop malicious apps hoste...

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