Новости за 26.04.2016

Gen. David Goldfein has been nominated to become the new top officer in the Air Force, nearly 17 years after he survived being shot down in an F-16C fighter jet while flying a combat mission over Serbia.

The former Pentagon IT specialist accused of fatally shooting his wife, then a police officer who responded to a 911 call at his Northern Virginia home, asked an investigator to kill him soon after he'd been handcuffed.

Standing on a nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier the length of more than three football fields as it plows through one of the world's most contested seas, Rear Adm. Marcus Hitchcock has only high praise for the navy of his biggest military rival: China.

A panel of psychologists, researchers and defense officials hoped that a half-day event next door to the Pentagon on military sexual assault, harassment and hazing would draw commanders integral to leading a cultural change. Not one showed up.

The high-tech and expensive F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will face off in upcoming testing with the Air Force’s aging close-air-support stalwart, the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the director of the Defense Department operational test and evaluation office said Tuesday.

The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved the nomination of the first female officer to lead one of the military's warfighting commands.

Eight suicide bombers blew themselves up prematurely while organizing coordinated attacks in Kunduz province Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said.

Turkey's foreign minister says the United States will deploy a rocket launcher system in southeastern Turkey across the border from Syria.

A Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune has been charged in a wreck that killed a motorcycle driver in Onslow County.

It reads like a John le Carré novel. A young woman dresses as a man, enlists in the Army and engages in combat. Later, she becomes a spy, repeatedly crossing enemy lines disguised as an Irish peddler and a black laundress, among other identities.

At least 70 people have died in and around the embattled northern city of Aleppo in the past three days as combat continues to intensify despite a cease-fire that is holding in most parts of Syria, government and opposition sources said Tuesday.

Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling party has denied it has plans to change the nation's secular constitution into a religious one.

Portugal's Constitutional Court has rejected a former CIA operative's appeal against her extradition to Italy to serve a six-year sentence for her part in the U.S. extraordinary renditions program, a court official said Tuesday.

With flowers, candles and tears, Ukraine on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the world's worst nuclear disaster. Some survivors said the chaos of that time is etched in their minds forever.

French television has broadcast what it says is a video taken from inside the Paris restaurant where jihadi Brahim Abdeslam blew himself up on Nov. 13, killing himself and wounding several others.

Australia announced Tuesday that French company DCNS has beat out bidders from Japan and Germany to build the next generation of submarines in Australia's largest-ever defense contract.

Myanmar's military newspaper says a military helicopter has crashed during a training exercise and both pilots were rescued by fishermen.

North Korea is believed to have placed a new, powerful midrange missile on standby for an impending launch, a news report said Tuesday.

South Korea President Park Geun-hye said Tuesday that North Korea is ready to stage a fifth nuclear test at any time, but she warned Pyongyang will face tougher sanctions if it goes through with the test.

A Marine veteran who turned his company’s harrowing tale from the 77-day siege of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War into a documentary film will be honored with the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution’s highest award.

A second U.S. Naval Academy instructor has been implicated in a sexual misconduct scandal reverberating across a military still struggling to hold service members accountable when allegations are made against them.

The United States pressed Vietnam Monday over a recent spate of detentions of government critics and pushed for other progress on human rights ahead of a visit next month by President Barack Obama.

For the first time, sailors will be able to have a neck tattoo, as long as it isn't longer than 1 inch in any direction. And there will be no limit to the size or number of tattoos they can have below the elbow and knee.

A military general in Burundi who was an adviser to the country's vice president and two others were shot dead in the capital, a military official said Monday.

A long-percolating feud between Navy brass and the Senate has erupted into open conflict, with the retired admiral who oversaw the daring 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden publicly accusing lawmakers of harboring deep disrespect for military leaders.