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What the Navy is learning from its fight in the Red Sea
The surface fleet has shot down scores of attack drones and missiles since October, activity without modern precedent in U.S. Navy history.
Unsafe intercepts involving NATO aircraft have decreased, and often are the result of a ‘hot-dogging’ pilot, top general says
“In many of the cases where they’re unsafe, when you take a look at the experience level of the operators that were involved, it typically turns into a young man or woman that was probably just hot-dogging it a little bit more than they should." - U.S. Air Force Gen. Tod Wolters, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe and commander of U.S. European Command
By Shawn Snow
Russian-Chinese air patrol was an attempt to divide allies, says top US Air Force official in Pacific
Is it a conspiracy theory? The head of the U.S. Air Force in the Pacific has suggested that a recent Russian-Chinese air patrol may be an attempt to divide regional partners. The event resulted in warning shots fired by intercepting South Korean jets.
By Mike Yeo
Op-ed: Journalism’s Assange problem
These days, anybody with an internet connection can be a publisher. That doesn’t make everybody a journalist.
By Kathy Kiely, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Laurel Leff, Northeastern University
SEAL vet dishes on mysterious arrest in Haiti
The retired SEAL and his fellow contractors — carrying a dozen semi-automatic rifles and pistols, along with satellite phones and other gear — had pulled away from a bank when they were stopped by police and detained.
Russian intercept marks a return to Cold War behavior in Europe’s skies
Russian fighters buzzing U.S. Navy recon planes in Eastern Europe could lead to disaster, analysts warn.
Russian fighter jet flies dangerously close to US airplane, Navy says
Monday's encounter over the Black Sea was the latest in a string of hazardous intercepts involving U.S. Navy recon planes and Russian fighter jets.
US fighter jets intercept 2 Russian bombers off Alaska
The Russian bombers were accompanied by two Russian fighter jets.
NATO intercepted a Russian plane over the Black Sea. So why weren’t US F-15s in nearby Romania used?
It was business as usual for the U.S. Air Force squadron deployed to Campia Turzii in Romania.
By Valerie Insinna
Russian bombers intercepted by F-22s off Alaska’s coast
A flight of long-range Russian bombers were intercepted by U.S. fighter jets off the western coast of Alaska Friday.
By Kyle Rempfer