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