Mar 21 WATCH: Pentagon says U.S. is speeding up delivery of tanks to Ukraine By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press The Pentagon is speeding up its delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine, opting to send a refurbished older model that can be ready faster, with the aim of getting the 70-ton battle powerhouses to the war zone by the fall,… Continue reading
Mar 19 Study finds higher cancer rates in military pilots, ground crews By Tara Copp, Associated Press A Pentagon study has found high rates of cancer among military pilots and for the first time has shown that ground crews who fuel, maintain and launch those aircraft are also getting sick. Continue reading
Mar 16 WATCH: Pentagon holds briefing as military works to reduce suicides By Associated Press Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a number of improvements in access to mental health care to try to reduce suicides in the military. Continue reading
Mar 16 WATCH: Pentagon video shows Russian fighter jet dumping fuel on U.S. surveillance drone By Karl Ritter, Dino Hazell, Associated Press The Pentagon has released video of what it said was a Russian fighter jet dumping fuel on a U.S. Air Force surveillance drone before the warplane clipped the drone's propeller in international airspace, leading to its crash in the Black… Continue reading
Mar 14 WATCH: Pentagon holds briefing after reports Russian war plane hits U.S. drone over Black Sea By Associated Press The MQ-9 is capable of carrying munitions but Ryder would not say whether it was armed. The U.S. had not recovered the crashed drone, U.S. Air Forces-Europe said in a statement, and neither had Russia, Ryder said. Continue reading
Mar 02 WATCH: Pentagon holds news briefing as Russia claims Ukraine sabotage attacks in its territory By Associated Press Pentagon press secretary Pat Ryder will hold a news briefing on Thursday as the Kremlin accuses Ukrainian saboteurs of crossing into western Russia and firing on villagers. Ukraine denied the claim and warned that Moscow could use the allegations to… Continue reading
Feb 28 WATCH: Pentagon reports no evidence of weapons lost to fraud in Ukraine By Susie Blann, Associated Press The Pentagon's inspector general says his office has found no evidence yet that any of the billions of dollars in weapons and aid to Ukraine has been lost to corruption or diverted into the wrong hands. Continue reading
Feb 22 China blasts Pentagon official's Taiwan visit By Associated Press China has sharply criticized a visit to Taiwan by a senior Pentagon official and reaffirmed sanctions against Lockheed Martin and a unit of Raytheon for supplying military equipment to the self-governing island. Continue reading
Feb 22 WATCH: Pentagon releases close-up photo of Chinese spy balloon By Tara Copp, Associated Press A U-2 pilot flying high above the Chinese spy balloon took a close-up photo of the large white orb just a day before the Air Force shot it down off the South Carolina coast. Continue reading
Feb 11 Watch 2:10 News Wrap: U.S. military searches for object shot down near Alaska In our news wrap Saturday, the U.S. military is searching for the remains of an unidentified object shot down off the coast of Alaska Friday, Trump’s legal team turned over more classified materials to federal investigators, and police in Raleigh,… Continue watching