At a conference in Honolulu, the assistant defense secretary for industrial base policy detailed the challenge.

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The Trump administration’s “narrowly tailored, short-term” lifting of sanctions on Russian oil may produce a longer-term boost to Moscow’s war on Ukraine. Treasury Department Secretary Scott Bessent ...

As the Trump administration pushes for faster weapons production, supply chain vulnerabilities could trip progress.

The last deadly KC-135 mishap was in 2013, when a crew of three crashed in the Kyrgyz Republic after the flight control system malfunctioned during a combat aerial refueling mission.

All six crew members perished when their KC-135 refueling tanker aircraft went down in western Iran after colliding with another aircraft. “The incident occurred in friendly airspace during Operation ...

Fourteen days into the war on Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the country’s ability to develop and manufacture ...

U.S. and allied militaries have turned to fighter jets in their struggle to ward off Iran’s cheap, plentiful drones, but former pilots say the mission is expensive, dangerous, and, ultimately, ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday ordered an overhaul of the military’s civilian and uniformed legal offices, ...

B-21 spotted in aerial-refueling test flights. After planespotters posted photos of the new bomber flying close to a tanker, an Air Force spokesperson confirmed to Defense One’s Thomas Novelly that ...

Lt. Col. David deGroot, director of the U.S. Army Heat Center at Fort Benning, Ga. See also Patrick Tucker's related recent ...