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An Icelandic hoist operator participates in NATO Exercise Northern Viking 2024 off the coast of Iceland on Aug. 31, 2024. (Anton Wendler/US Navy) MILAN — Seven NATO countries completed an Iceland-based exercise aimed at defending vital underwater lines of communication and sea routes against conventional military threats and acts of sabotage. The annual exercise Northern […]

The Space Force’s Space Development Agency now expects its next tranche of satellites to begin launching late this year or early next due to supplier delays. (U.S. Space Force/Senior Airman Thomas Sjoberg) Plans for the Space Force’s Space Development Agency to kick-start its next phase of launches this month is on hold due to supplier […]

BERLIN — Germany’s military has received the first IRIS-T SLM air defense system for its own forces after prioritizing the weapon’s production for Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022. “A new chapter of European air defense is shaping up,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz said at an inauguration ceremony for the equipment on a military base […]

Top U.S. military leaders will be in Germany to discuss Ukraine’s wartime needs as Russia has conducted one of its deadliest airstrikes in the conflict and Ukraine presses its offensive in Russia’s Kursk region. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will host a meeting Friday at […]

Submarine commander Howard W. Gilmore. (Naval History and Heritage Command) With the Battle of Midway raging in the Pacific in June 1942, Japanese forces 2,500 miles to the north were seizing control of the Aleutian Islands of Kiska and Attu. Their aim was clear: Distract American forces from Midway while sending a message that Japan […]