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China's navy is growing in quality as well as quantity.

Congress looks determined to avoid gaps in homeland defenses against a North Korean missile attack.

The desired capabilities of China's next-generation fighter sound similar to America's stealth jet.

As the U.S. Navy searches for cash, the value in “Generation Z” platforms—20 year-old ships that have been bought and paid for—risks being ignored. Rather than refit the “Gen Z” fleet, the U.S. Navy, under pressure from the Department of Defense, is looking to other more risky routes to save money.

United Airlines has canceled many change fees and other big airlines quickly matched. But not all customers are saved from this fee, and customer confusion is likely.

On Aug. 17, 23 warships from 10 countries gathered off the coast of Hawaii for the U.S. Navy’s biannual Rim of the Pacific war game.

“The next six weeks will probably shape the next 12 months’ capacity plans for many airlines. The early indications are not looking good.”

An integrated review of defense and foreign policy is mulling retiring the British Army’s fleet of Challenger 2 main battle tanks in favor of more funding for satellites and cyber-warfare. That could make the UK potentially the first major military power to give up on the main battle tank entirely.

As part of a proxy spying effort targeting the Communist Bloc, the United States equipped the Taiwanese military with high-altitude spy planes including RB-57s and U-2s.

Aer Lingus could debut on the U.K.’s trans-Atlantic market, flying non-stop from a city like Manchester or Edinburgh to the U.S.