Anthony Capaccio

President Donald Trump’s so-called Golden Fleet of around 15 nuclear-powered battleships could cost as much as $275 billion to develop and acquire through 2056, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

US military facilities across the Pacific are in a worrying state of decay, the Pentagon inspector general warned, raising concerns about bases that are critical to deterring China.

U.S. military facilities across the Pacific are in a worrying state of decay, the Pentagon inspector general warned

Democratic lawmakers are pushing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to explain deep cuts to the Pentagon’s weapons testing office and to restore decades worth of unclassified weapons assessments that were recently removed from the unit’s publicly accessible website.

President Donald Trump ordered the Navy to return to using steam catapults to launch planes off of aircraft carriers, acting on a longtime complaint despite opposition from many naval officers.

President Donald Trump wants to switch the warplane launch systems on new US aircraft carriers. The company that builds those systems is suggesting that might not be a good idea.

Boeing Co. is making “steady progress” replacing cracked metal structures inside its two Air Force One presidential transport jets, a major retrofit that must be finished before targeted delivery in mid-2028, the US Air Force said.

The effectiveness of the US Navy’s attack submarines has been undermined by a shortage of dry-dock space that contribute to maintenance delays of as long as four years, costing the service about $3.4 billion over the last decade, according to a new congressional audit.

Iran’s military claimed that it captured a state-of-the-art underwater drone from US forces amid ongoing tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, but the US dismissed the sea drone as “defective and malfunctioning,” and said it didn’t have any classified equipment on board.