US Navy destroyers are firing top interceptors to bring down Iranian missiles flying into NATO airspace

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A Standard Missile -3 Block IIA, or SM-3 Blk IIA, is launched from US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85) off the coast of the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii, during Flight Test Other-23 or FTX-23, February 8, 2024.
The US Navy has used SM-3s on three occasions to defend Turkish airspace over the past two weeks.

US Missile Defense Agency photo

Top US general says American forces have been sinking Iranian warships, including a submarine, with the ATACMS ballistic missile

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US Army soldiers launch the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) from a HIMARS system in Australia during a training event on July 27, 2023.
US Army soldiers launch the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) from a HIMARS system in Australia during a training event on July 27, 2023.

U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Dickson

A US military refueling aircraft went down in Iraq, killing all six crew members

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A US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker performs an in-flight refuel for two F-22 Raptor jets during an exercise over the Pacific Ocean on Jan. 16, 2026.
A US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker performs an in-flight refuel for two F-22 Raptor jets during an exercise over the Pacific Ocean on Jan. 16, 2026.

U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Mary Greenwood

The Arctic is stress-testing US Marines and their HIMARS in the most brutal conditions

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US Marines with 2nd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, launch a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System during a live-fire training event in preparation for Exercise Nordic Response 24 in Setermoen, Norway, February 27, 2024.
US Marines are training with HIMARS launchers in Norway.

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Iran's Shahed war is turning into booming business for the world's small drone manufacturers

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A Ukrainian soldier holds an interceptor drone in the air with one hand.
A soldier from the Khanter group of Ukraine's 208th Khersonska Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade holds an interceptor drone.

Nina Liashonok / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Satellite images show Russia expanding a new front-line drone base in occupied Ukraine

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An overview of the Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine in March 2026.
Russia has converted the Donetsk airport into a drone base.

Satellite image ©2026 Vantor.

The Army is getting a new lethal hand grenade for the first time in decades

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The Army's new hand grenade is has a body made of plastic instead of asbestos
The Army's new hand grenade is has a body made of plastic instead of asbestos

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US Army officers say battlefield leaders facing new drone threats have another problem to deal with — it's information overload

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US Army soldiers with the 2d Cavalry Regiment are absorbing lessons learned from the war in Ukraine as they train with Ukrainian troops and test new methods.
US Army soldiers with the 2d Cavalry Regiment are absorbing lessons learned from the war in Ukraine as they train with Ukrainian troops and test new methods.

U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Rebecca Call

Ukraine showed NATO artillery crews how to use drones. Now they're figuring out how to make them work in the Arctic.

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A soldier gets ready to launch a UAS A1-CM ''Furia'' used for reconnaissance and artillery fire correction in the Zaporizhzhia direction, Ukraine, on February 22, 2026.
A Ukrainian soldier prepares to launch a drone for reconnaissance and targeting.

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Video shows US forces destroying some of Iran's old American-made warplanes

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A P-3F Orion is struck by a munition on a runway.
US Central Command posted a video showing three planes, including two old US-made aircraft, being destroyed.

Screenshot via X/US Central Command

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