Military Equipment

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and nearly a dozen other members of Congress this week asked for an update from the Department of Defense on sending surplus military aircraft to the U.S. Forest Service, aircraft that could assist in fighting wildfires....

By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy posted the final rules for a long-delayed, multibillion dollar competition for a new fleet of presidential helicopters, saying it planned to award a contract about a year from now despite...

Viewed from 500 feet up in a small Cessna, the vessel plowing across the ocean below looked like a tug towing a barge. But upon closer inspection, pilot Ken Kaltman recognized the distinctive low profile of a sleek black submarine. "We were a little bit...

* Chinese military vehicles have routinely broken laws * Country's new leadership wants this to change * One aim is to get rid of fake military plates By Terril Yue Jones BEIJING, April 28 (Reuters) - China's new leadership is seeking to dismantle a...

In a time when the whetted and arbitrary deficit-reduction knife is cutting bone out of critical U.S. government programs, the image of shopping bags stuffed with CIA cash handed off on a monthly basis to Afghan President Hamid Karzai — who reigns...

* Autralia keeps plan to buy 100 F-35s * Canberra also to buy Asia-first Growlers in new defense strategy * Canberra reassesses military in light of U.S. pivot By Andrea Shalal-Esa and Rob Taylor WASHINGTON/CANBERRA, May 2 (Reuters) - Australia's...

Franklin W. Littleton Jr., a retired career Air Force officer and a businessman who was a big-band and Dixieland music aficionado, died April 20 of complications from dementia at Nichols Eldercare, an Edgewood assisted-living facility. The Bel Air...

* Microwave trading networks launched from London to Frankfurt * Secretive rivals race to shave milliseconds off trading times * Laser technology developed for U.S. military to be used By Eric Onstad LONDON, May 1 (Reuters) - Laser beams and microwave...

RAPID CITY, S.D. - Bomber training missions are resuming on a limited basis at Ellsworth Air Force Base in southwestern South Dakota.   The military last month halted training operations for a dozen active-duty fighter and bomber squadrons across the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator John Thune today praised the Air Force’s announcement that it plans to alter its previous decision to ground B-1B Lancer bombers at Ellsworth and once again begin flying B-1 training missions on a limited basis starting...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The oil minister of Saudi Arabia, the world's top crude oil exporter, welcomed the U.S. energy renaissance on Tuesday but added that the boom in new global output may hold the kingdom's production at current levels until the next...

(Repeats with no changes to text) * Saudi oil minister to give major speech in Washington Tuesday * U.S., Saudi Arabia both keen on balanced oil market * Former U.S. diplomat says relationship is "less intimate" By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, April...