NATO F-35 stealth fighters scrambled to repel the Russian MiG-31s that breached alliance airspace

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Three U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II jets assigned to Luke Air Force Base fly in formation while waiting for in-flight refueling over Oregon, April 30, 2025.
The F-35 is widely considered the world's top fighter aircraft.

Staff Sgt. Ryan Gomez/US Air Force

The world feared Ukraine would fall to Russia in days. Now it's teaching NATO forces how to fight a new kind of war.

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A Ukrainian mobile fire group opens fire into the sky.
Ukraine has been sending out machine gun crews with trucks to take down Shaheds, a tactic born out of necessity.

Oxana Chorna/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

Ukraine is starting to move weapons production into NATO, where Russia's missiles can't reach it without risking all-out war

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A worker assembles mortar shells at a factory in Ukraine.
A worker assembles mortar shells at a factory in Ukraine.

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NATO and Ukraine are teaming up to fight Russia's hard-to-kill weapons

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A Russian Su-34 bomber drops a glide bomb to strike Ukrainian positions in August 2024.
A Russian Su-34 bomber drops a glide bomb to strike Ukrainian positions in August 2024.

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New images show a front-line NATO ally's plan to blunt a Russian invasion at the border

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Soldiers in camouflage gear and helmets stand holding firearms and wearing sunglasses.
Lithuanian Army soldiers take part in an exercise between the Lithuanian and Polish militaries near the borders with Belarus and Russia.

AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File

Russia's navy looks to be stretched thin after getting battered by Ukraine and losing a key port, Western officials say

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In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, April 14, 2025, the Admiral Golovko frigate of the Russian navy is seen during joint Russian Egyptian drills in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Russian frigate Admiral Golovko operates in the Mediterranean Sea in April.

Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP

Inside the NH90 chopper that NATO warships lean on to find Russian submarines

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An NH90 helicopter lands on the HNLMS De Ruyter operating north of Norway in August 2025.
The NH90 helicopter is capable of anti-submarine warfare.

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NATO is pouring new spending into much-needed air defenses. Money alone won't fix the West's problems.

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German and Ukrainian soldiers stand in front of Patriot systems at a military training area in Mecklenburg, Germany, in June 2024.
The West needs more systems like the Patriot air defense missile system.

Jens Büttner/Pool/Getty Images

NATO's big $1.4 trillion bet is seeing long-ignored air defenses coming back in a big way

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A Patriot launcher firing an interceptor in a field.
The MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile system is the kind of ground-based air defense system that the West needs more of.

US Army photo by Sgt. David Rincon

We got an inside look at how frontline NATO allies would fight Russia

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Polish 6th Airborne Brigade conducts an air insertion at Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area, June 10, 2020.
A Finnish officer described the mission to jump out of airplanes via parachute and then form up to seize an airfield as "extremely difficult."

US Army Photo by Richard Herman

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