China flew striking prototypes of a future stealth fighter
China watchers buzzed about the possible roles of an advanced stealth fighter whose capabilities could rival those of US aircraft.
Sam Fellman
Deputy Editor, Military & Defense
Trump has shadow picks for Pentagon chief if Pete Hegseth drops out. The former Fox News host says he won't back down.
Hegseth is fighting to be the next defense secretary, but it's an uphill battle. And potential backups are already waiting in the wings.
Andrew Webber's forever war
Why Andrew Webber — a successful attorney, decorated vet, and a father to two little girls — committed his life to a foreign war.
Ukraine's sea drones vs. Russia's Black Sea Fleet
How are Ukraine's cheap unmanned sea drones and Western missiles taking down Russian warships worth hundreds of millions of dollars?
Russian vs. Western-made tanks in the Ukraine war
Tanks are the apex predator on Ukraine's battlefields, with modern Western tanks facing off against Soviet relics. But which country has the power?
How the Iranian-backed Houthi militia compares to the US-led task force in the Red Sea
Yemen's Houthi militia is attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea, and a US-led task force is fighting back. These are their weapons and tactics.
USA vs. China aircraft carriers
From the $13 billion USS Gerald R. Ford to the Chinese Fujian carrier, a high-stakes race is underway between the US and China for aircraft carriers.
How the US' top multiple rocket launcher compares with Russia's BM-30 in the Ukraine war
A US Navy veteran compares the best multiple launcher rocket systems from the US and UK, detailing HIMARS and the BM-30 Smerch.
Ukrainian troops stuck it to Putin by helping recreate a 19th Century masterpiece
A famous painting of Ukrainian identity is held by a Russian museum. An artist recreated a modern version with the help of Ukrainian troops.
Israel's military says it used the wrong bombs in strike on a Gaza refugee center that killed at least 86 people
Thursday's statements appear to be the IDF's first admission that it used excessive force in its war in Gaza.
What is Israel trying to achieve in its brutal Gaza war?
Two months in, Israel is dead-set on what war experts see as a half-baked strategy that's playing right into Hamas' hands.
Israel is looking to World War II in its Gaza fight, and it risks taking lessons from the wrong war
Victory in Israel's deadly Gaza invasion may turn on the same factors the US blundered in its post-9/11 wars.
Nearly 5,000 Thai workers have fled Israel since the Hamas terror attacks that killed 33 of them
The Thai government said that 18 of its citizens remain hostages of Hamas somewhere inside of the Gaza Strip.
Battlefield videos capture a tank explosion so massive it's likely it was one of Russia's new rolling bombs
These videos show how Russian troops tried to turn an aging combat vehicle into a firebomb and what did it in before it reached Ukraine's lines.
Russian flyers who disobeyed orders to attack Wagner forces may be caught up in Putin's dragnet
Some Russian commentators saw hypocrisy in a threat to prosecute the aviators for disobedience while the mutineers were let off.
How the 'masculine' talks that averted a siege on Moscow went down, according to Putin's negotiator
The Putin ally in Belarus says he persuaded Wagner's Prigozhin to back down in expletive-filled talks, warning him he'd "be crushed like a bug."
After Prigozhin's mutiny, another Russian ultranationalist said that Putin must 'transfer' his war powers if he can't win in Ukraine
Putin, who came to power on perceptions of strength, now faces a chorus of Russian critics who say he and his officials are too weak to win in Ukraine.
Russian troops are turning tanks into car bombs against Ukraine
The kamikaze armored vehicles have some similarities with the way ISIS militants used car bombs to attack convoys and to terrify their enemies.
The new star in Congress is quite fake
Marty quickly shed the moving blanket he'd worn into the Capitol Hill office, to reveal a head-turning frame: muscular, over 6-feet tall and hirsute.
Russian nationalists called for a general to be shot, arguing 'stupidity' exposed troops to deadly Ukrainian artillery
Rumored casualties from a Ukrainian strike run as high as 200 Russians, and Russian nationalists were quick to turn on military leaders.