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U.S. to cut nuclear launchers under treaty with Russia: officials

August 24, 2021 at 10:48 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will scale back its nuclear bombers, submarine launchers and ballistic missiles in the first cuts to its leftover cold war nuclear arsenal since ratifying...

U.S. to cut nuclear launchers under treaty with Russia: officials

May 23, 2019 at 4:33 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will scale back its nuclear bombers, submarine launchers and ballistic missiles in the first cuts to its leftover cold war nuclear arsenal since ratifying...

U.S. Navy to test futuristic, super-fast gun at sea in 2016

August 24, 2021 at 10:45 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy is planning sea trials for a weapon that can fire a low-cost, 23-pound (10-kg) projectile at seven times the speed of sound using electromagnetic...

U.S. Navy testing more sophisticated pilotless helicopters

August 24, 2021 at 10:43 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The helicopter kicked up a cloud of freshly fallen snow that partly obscured the ground below, but despite the poor visibility, it gently touched down in a...

U.S. sending 175 Marines to Romania as part of Africa crisis team

August 24, 2021 at 10:37 p.m.

(Pentagon says 800 Marines in Moron, Spain, not 500, paragraph 14.) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Wednesday it was bolstering the size of its Europe-based Africa crisis response...

Hagel, ahead of China trip, urges military restraint in cyberspace

November 3, 2021 at 8:34 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, pushing for openness ahead of a trip to China, said on Friday in an unusual live broadcast from a secretive base the Pentagon...

Hagel, ahead of China trip, urges military restraint in cyberspace

December 23, 2018 at 5:14 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, pushing for openness ahead of a trip to China, said on Friday in an unusual live broadcast from a secretive base the Pentagon...

Nine officers removed, one resigns in Air Force cheating probe

December 23, 2018 at 5:13 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the nuclear missile wing at a base in Montana resigned on Thursday and nine officers were removed from their jobs over a test-cheating scandal...

Deep budget cuts may erode U.S. Army ability to fight long war: general

December 23, 2018 at 5:07 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. Army officer told lawmakers on Tuesday that a return to deep budget cuts as required by law beginning in 2016 would make it difficult...

U.S. airlift support to bolster African hunt for violent warlord

November 3, 2021 at 8:31 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is deploying four tilt-rotor transport planes to Uganda in response to African Union requests for airlift support in the hunt for the elusive leader...

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