Air Force 'Safely Terminated' a Nuclear-Capable Missile After Failed Test over Pacific Ocean A test launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base went awry "due to an anomaly." The cause of what went wrong with the nuclear...
Air Force Tests Long-Range, Nuclear-Capable Missile Amid Global Tensions The Air Force successfully launched a long-range, nuclear-capable missile during a scheduled test out of California on...
US Pulls Missile Defenses in Saudi Arabia Amid Yemen Attacks A high-resolution satellite picture taken Friday showed the batteries' pads at the site empty, with no visible activity.
Air Force Aborts ICBM Test After Problem on the Ground The aborted mission comes as the Pentagon faces increased scrutiny over its efforts to develop next-generation ICBMs to...
Putting Nuclear Bombers Back on 24-Hour Alert Would Exhaust the Force, General Says A requirement to return a portion of the Air Force bomber fleet to alert status would deteriorate and exhaust the force, a...
Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore, STRATCOM Chief Says Adm. Charles Richard rejected suggestions to save money by trying to life-extend the 50-year-old ICBMs.
A Navy Destroyer Just Shot Down an ICBM Target for the First Time As the ICBM intercept test was a preliminary test of a new combat capability, the ICBM target did not deploy countermeasures.
Northrop Grumman Gets $13.3 Billion Air Force Contract to Engineer New ICBMs The new ICBM will replace the Minuteman III, which was designed to last a decade and recently celebrated its 50th anniversary...
The Minuteman III, Designed for 10 Years of Use, Celebrates its 50th Anniversary Wednesday marks 50 years since America's Minuteman III ICBM was first placed on alert at Minot Air Force Base.
FTC Investigating Northrop Grumman Amid ICBM Spat with Boeing The agency is probing whether Northrop violated the terms of an agreement it made to acquire Orbital ATK.
Trump Pardons Former Army Officer Convicted of Disobeying COVID-19 Safety Rules President Trump pardoned a former junior Army officer who was found guilty in a 2022 court-martial of violating orders to...
He Was a Sailor. I, a Marine. Our Romance Was Forbidden by Regulation. I was the new “WM”—Woman Marine—on deck, and I felt the weight of all eyes watching me for every right or wrong move I made...
American Military Jeeps Are Rising from the Ashes in Vietnam A company called Van Daryl is rebuilding the Jeeps the American military left behind in Vietnam, and you’ll hardly recognize...
Pentagon Weighs Bigger Army as Service Sees Early Recruiting Success As of Monday, the Army had brought in 59,875 new active-duty enlisted soldiers with a total goal of 61,000 for fiscal 2025...
Space Command Headquarters in Colorado 'Not Sustainable' Without New Construction, GAO Finds The political fight over Space Command's future in either Alabama or Colorado has been a partisan tug-of-war for more than...
