The F-16 hit 50 years of flying. These photos show the Viper in action.

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Pilots with the F-16 Viper and F-22 Raptor Demonstration Teams.

US Air Force photo by Senior Airman Mary Begy

Iran warns it will react decisively if attacked and won't 'leave any threat unanswered' as US plans response to American troops deaths

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Iran Revolutionary Guard deputy head Hossein Salami
Hossein Salami, commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, speaks during Tehran's Friday prayers on July 16, 2010.

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Ukraine is getting a new US-made guided bomb meant to hit targets 90 miles away and overcome Russian jamming: report

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A ground-launched small-diameter bomb
A ground-launched small-diameter bomb tested at an unknown location in an undated photo shared by Saab AB.

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Biden appears to have found a workaround to the GOP Ukraine aid block — routing weapons via Greece

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gestures as he thanks MPs after his virtual address to the Greek Parliament in Athens on April 7, 2022.

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China is a greater threat to the US than Russia and that's why the CIA doubled its budget for it, agency chief says

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Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (right).
"While Russia may pose the most immediate challenge, China is the bigger long-term threat," CIA director William J. Burns wrote in an op-ed for Foreign Affairs.

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CIA chief says Russia's failures in the Ukraine war have sealed its fate as 'China's economic vassal'

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Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Putin's war has been a failure for Russia, the director of the CIA says.

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Walking away from Ukraine would be an 'own goal' as the war hollows out the army Putin spent decades building, CIA chief says

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Ukrainian servicemen drive a T-72 tank on the frontline in eastern Ukraine on July 13, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian servicemen drive a T-72 tank on the frontline in eastern Ukraine on July 13, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Biden says he knows how he is going to respond to US troop deaths, but he doesn't want a wider war

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President Joe Biden.

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Iran shows it can unleash its own deadly drone war against US troops

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An Iranian schoolboy takes selfie with Iran's Shahed-136 (L), and Shahed-131 unmanned aerial vehicles during his visit to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) National Aerospace Park in western Tehran, October 11, 2023.
An Iranian student takes a selfie with Iran's Shahed-136 (L), and Shahed-131 drones during his visit to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) National Aerospace Park in western Tehran, October 11, 2023.

Ukraine needs different weapons to blunt Russia's artillery fire advantages because HIMARS aren't enough anymore, war experts say

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Ukrainian soldiers fire with the Archer Artillery System on Russian position on January 3, 2024 in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Ukrainian soldiers fire with the Archer Artillery System on Russian position on January 3, 2024 in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

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