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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.

10 May 2024, 20:18

Russia's jamming of American weapons in Ukraine is showing the US what it needs to be ready for in a future fight

Russia keeps jamming US precision weapons in Ukraine, showing the US a problem it needs to solve before its next big fight.

16 Oct 2019, 01:40

Here's how the Air Force trains its pilots to survive, evade, resist, and escape when behind enemy lines

US Air Force pilots and aircrew train extensively to fly and maintain their aircraft. But they also go through rigorous trai...

15 Oct 2019, 17:55

Video shows Russian mercenaries inside an abandoned US camp in Syria

A video shows the inside of a US military camp in Syria shortly after it was abandoned and overtaken by Russian mercenaries....

15 Oct 2019, 17:30

This former CIA spy hunted loose nukes for a living - here's the one threat that keeps her up at night

Insider recently obtained an advanced copy of "Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA," a new book by former clandestine ...

15 Oct 2019, 15:55

Vietnam pulled Dreamworks' 'Abominable' movie because it used a map staking China's claim over the disputed South China Sea

Twitter/Movie Details A still from the movie "Abominable" showing a map including China's nine-dash line clai...

15 Oct 2019, 06:00

Army leaders say they need a better network if they are going to field next-level warfighting systems

The Army is working on a number of different modernization priorities, from soldier lethality developments to next-generatio...

15 Oct 2019, 01:42

These 3 defense industry players have revealed their visions for the Army's next attack helicopter

Five companies are competing to build the Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA), and three have publicly unvei...

14 Oct 2019, 23:21

Russia's submarines are getting harder to find, and the Navy is sending more people to keep an eye on them

The Russian navy, its submarine force in particular, is getting more sophisticated and becoming more active around Europe. T...

14 Oct 2019, 21:58

Textron, Howe & Howe and FLIR roll out a small robot tank that can deploy drones in bid to build the Army's new robotic combat vehicle

Textron Systems, Howe & Howe, and FLIR Systems, Inc. have unveiled their bid to build the Army a new robotic ...

14 Oct 2019, 21:26

Meet the overlooked crews who make sure fellow Marines can fight from ship to shore

Keeping Marine Expeditionary Units supplied during their wide-ranging operations is a logistical headache. The Marines taske...

14 Oct 2019, 18:29

The US Army just got its hands on the best night-vision goggles in the world - here's what it can do and what's next

Army Futures Command Army soldiers equipped with the ENVG-B The US Army recently fielded the Enhanced Night V...

14 Oct 2019, 18:10

US military communications are struggling to keep up with rivals, the Pentagon reveals in first-of-its-kind study

Getty Images A reconnaissance satellite is blinded and disabled by a ground-based laser US military communica...

14 Oct 2019, 08:57

Kurdish forces strike a deal with Assad's army as they battle an intensifying Turkish assault in northern Syria

Nazeer Al-khatib / AFP) (Photo by NAZEER AL-KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images A Turkish-backed Syrian fighter fires...

12 Oct 2019, 19:15

3 winners and 3 losers from a melting Arctic

Reuters A helicopter from the Swedish icebreaker Oden lands on an ice floe to pick up crew members in the Canadian Arctic, July 25, 2019 The Arctic i...

12 Oct 2019, 02:14

Trump says he doesn't want any ISIS prisoners to escape during Turkey's offensive, but a new video is said to show just that

A video released by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reportedly shows prisoners escaping in the aftermath o...

11 Oct 2019, 20:27

Putin's Skyfall missile failed a test and exploded in a deadly nuclear accident, the US says

Dmitry Dub/Associated Press A family watches explosions at a military ammunition depot near Achinsk, Russia, on August 5. Ru...

11 Oct 2019, 16:30

This pitch deck reveals how ad giant Omnicom won the US Army's $4 billion marketing business. Its first ads are about to hit digital and social media.

An Omnicom team led by DDB last year won the US Army's ad business, covering an...

11 Oct 2019, 02:42

Tim Cook sent a memo to employees explaining why he stands by Apple's decision to remove an app used by Hong Kong protesters to track police

In a memo to employees, Apple CEO Tim Cook stood by the company's decision to remove an app from the App Stor...

The delivery of the Navy's $8 billion Zumwalt destroyer has been delayed again, putting it years behind schedule

10 Oct 2019, 23:04

A secret Russian assassination squad has proven 'they can get to anyone' in Europe but there's just one problem - they're really sloppy about it

Reuters Russian President Putin chairs a meeting with members of the government...

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