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The deal will assist the company in the design and development of a continuous fiber thermoplastic composite structure for components requiring icing protection.

In the wake of a rise in China’s intercepts of U.S. aircraft, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said direct communication could keep situations from ‘spiraling out of control.’

Airbus’ latest business venture is staffed by a plethora of U.S. military veterans, including several with Army and Air Force backgrounds.

The DOD estimates it will take five to nine months to fully train Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly the fighter jets.

The blockade in promoting top military leaders during a time of ‘urgent challenges’ has hurt U.S. military readiness, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.

The B61-13 bomb variant would be deliverable by modern aircraft, more accurate, and replace some of the B61-7s in the nuclear stockpile, defense officials said.

Department of Defense leadership repositioned a carrier strike group and bolstered forces amid what Pentagon officials maintain is a rising threat against U.S. forces in the region.

China is working to rapidly modernize and expand its nuclear forces in the next decade at a pace that “dwarfs previous attempts in both scale and complexity,” the Department of Defense said.

Many of the unidentified anomalous phenomena incidents were near restricted military airspace.

Denmark and the Netherlands will also instruct fighter pilots, American Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced while attending a NATO defense ministers summit in Brussels.