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New in 2024: Marines train more drone pilots, fill MQ-9 squadrons

Three locations use the Reaper drone — and the Corps plans to open a support unit in Cherry Point, North Carolina.

4 months ago

Austin, Milley defend weapons cuts in Biden’s defense budget

Top Pentagon leaders defended President Joe Biden’s flat defense budget request to lawmakers on Thursday and its “hard choices” to slash legacy weapons programs in favor of developing technologies, as a hedge against China.

3 years ago

Mattis says Iran downing a US aircraft should be met with ‘retaliation’

Mattis said when he was the commander of CENTCOM an Iranian fighter made three attempts to shoot down a U.S. drone and missed each time. “Says something about their accuracy that they missed all three times.”

By Shawn Snow

4 years ago

Russia’s military drone makes successful maiden flight

The Russian military says a heavy drone it’s developing has made a successful maiden flight.

5 years ago

Troops in Iraq see spike in ‘indirect fire’ attacks — Iran gets blamed

Katyusha rockets have landed near a number of installations housing American forces in Iraq as tensions with Iran come to a boil.

By Shawn Snow

5 years ago

Iran Revolutionary Guard shoots down US drone amid tensions

The Iran Revolutionary Guard said it shot down the drone over Iranian airspace, while two U.S. officials told The Associated Press that the downing happened over international airspace in the Strait of Hormuz. The different accounts could not be immediately reconciled.

By Nassir Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press

5 years ago