The US Air Force's new mini-cruise missile, built for bringing mass to Ukraine's long-range fight, is taking off

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F-16s are seen flying over the Ukraine sky.
The ERAM is meant to be launched from Ukraine's aircraft, such a the F-16 Fighting Falcon.

Vitalii Nosach/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

NORAD scrambled F-16 fighters to intercept a Russian spy plane that keeps popping up off Alaska

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North American Aerospace Defense Command CF-18 Hornets and F-16 Fighting Falcons escort a LC-130 Hercules assigned to the 109th Airlift Wing over the North Slope of Alaska, February 26, 2025.
NORAD has scrambled F-16s four times in the past week to respond to Russian aircraft.

US Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Jocelyn Tuller

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.

Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP

A US Navy destroyer ran through the kind of critical at-sea weapons reload it would need in a Pacific missile fight

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The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) launches a Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) from the forward vertical launching system while operating in the Philippine Sea, April 5.
USS Higgins launches a Standard Missile-2.

US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Hannah Fry

It looks like jam-proof drones, a Ukraine war battlefield scourge, showed up at the US Navy's Silent Swarm exercise

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A small, black fiber-optic first-person view drone sits on rocks at a beach, with waves and a blue sky in the background.
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US Air National Guard photo by 1st. Lt. Elise Wahlstrom

China's catastrophic South China Sea crash shows how dangerous high-risk moves at sea can be

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A screenshot of a video showing a Chinese Navy vessel and Chinese Coast Guard vessel crashing into one another in the sea. The video is filming from a fishing boat. The sky is blue with some clouds in the background.
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Jay Tarriela, Philippine Coast Guard Spokesperson

A Ukrainian weapons maker is building a new unjammable drone with a 100-kilometer reach. It says 'the war has changed.'

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An FPV drone controlled via a fiber-optic cable flies during Ukrainian military training on January 29, 2025, in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
Fiber-optic drones have emerged as one of the deadliest threats on the battlefield in Ukraine.

Global Images Ukraine/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

Ukraine says its forces bombed a Russian ship carrying Iranian ammo as it ramps up deep-strike operations

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The Port Olya 4 passes through the Suez Canal in Egypt.
The Russian cargo vessel Port Olya 4.

REUTERS/Catherine Cartier/File Photo

Russia improved its missiles. Now, Ukraine's Patriots are struggling to consistently shoot them down, defense intel says.

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A Patriot missile system fires at a live-fire missile range near Capu Midia, Romania, Jun. 19, 2019 during exercise Shabla 19.
The US Army is learning from watching how Ukraine uses its Patriot air defense systems.

Capt. Aaron Smith/174 Air Defense Artillery Brigade

A NATO drone maker is testing its weapons in Ukraine — with its CEO actually heading to the battlefield to see it firsthand

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Ukrainian servicemen who recently returned from the trenches of Bakhmut walk on a street in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 8, 2023.
Ukrainian servicemen who recently returned from the trenches of Bakhmut walk on a street in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine on March 8, 2023.

AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka

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