Roxana Tiron

Hypersonic weapons are so fast, their speed can change the surrounding air molecules. They can carry a nuclear warhead, fly low and be hard to detect. Because of their potential to transform modern warfare, these weapons have become a key front in the intensifying race for military dominance between the US on one side and Russia and China on the other.

National Guard troops deployed to Washington, DC for President Donald Trump’s “safe and beautiful mission” are set to keep working in the city, without pay, if the US government shuts down over a funding dispute between the White House and congressional Democrats.

Deal for Trump’s Qatar Gift Jet Hasn’t Been Signed, Hegseth Says

President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee the Pentagon’s personnel policies said he regrets past comments that sank his earlier nomination to another role, including tweets in which he called Barack Obama a “terrorist leader” and called Islam the “most oppressive violent religion I know of.”

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the termination of $5.1 billion in contracts for “ancillary things like consulting and other nonessential services,” as part of his partnership with Elon Musk’s government efficiency task force.

President Donald Trump said his administration had approved a defense budget in the “vicinity” of $1 trillion.

The Pentagon has initiated an investigation incorporating polygraph tests to hunt down leakers after Elon Musk called for the prosecution of any Defense Department officials spreading “maliciously false information” about his dealings with the military.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Navy’s first female chief of naval operations are on a list circulating on Capitol Hill of military officers that may be removed from their posts under the new secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth.

The Pentagon is sending 1,500 troops to the US southwest border, and several military transport aircraft are already on their way to help deport more than 5,000 migrants put in detention by the Biden administration, defense officials said Wednesday.

Five Chinese-linked biotechnology firms won a reprieve Saturday when negotiators on a key defense bill decided not to include legislation blacklisting the companies from new federally funded research and contracts.