Новости за 13.09.2017

After having already spent $265 million toward buying new planes for J-STARS at Robins Air Force Base, the Air Force may be rethinking the plan.

Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia had introduced the measure along with four colleagues from both parties. The House approved the measure by voice vote Tuesday, one day after the Senate also cleared it by voice vote with little fanfare.

The Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee is canning plans to expand U.S. military ties with Myanmar because of its persecution of minority Rohingya Muslims.

Two more Americans have been confirmed to be affected by unexplained health attacks against U.S. diplomats in Cuba, the United States said Tuesday, raising the total number of victims to 21.

Israel's Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a 2015 law that granted exemptions from military service to ultra-Orthodox men, in a move that could re-ignite long-standing tensions between Israel's politically powerful ultra-Orthodox community and the secular Jewish majority.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Dustin Doyon, one of the 10 killed in the Aug. 21 crash of the USS John McCain, was buried Tuesday in a private ceremony in Connecticut.

A top American military commander is declassifying 81 locations of unexploded bombs dropped by the U.S.-led coalition in the battle to oust Islamic State militants from the Iraqi city of Mosul.

Pay raises for servicemembers, funds for new ships and aircrafts as well as a boost to missile defense could be implemented if the Senate’s proposed $700 billion defense bill is approved in the coming days.

A senior at the Air Force Academy has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and taking cellphone images of unclothed civilians without their consent.

An Air Force Academy cadet got 30 months in prison after he pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of child pornography and secretly videotaping women in the shower.

A measure to increase funding for veteran treatment courts by $3 million was added to a House spending bill Tuesday, signaling early support in Congress for diversion, rather than incarceration, for veterans struggling with mental health and substance abuse disorders.