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Australia has taken delivery of two ultra-expensive, state-of-the-art fighter jets, a move which defence chiefs say will strengthen the deterrent effect of the entire Australian Defence Force.
Two U.S. Marines were rescued and another five were missing after a pair of military planes collided off the coast of Japan during a refueling exercise on Thursday, the U.S. military said.
An F/A-18 fighter jet and a KC-130 tanker plane belonging to the U.S. Marines collided and crashed off Japan's western coast early Thursday morning, with five of the seven crew members still missing.
One of the seven people on board of two U.S. military aircraft that had crashed off the coast of western Japan early Thursday has been rescued, local media reported, quoting Japanese government sources.
Two U.S. military jets have crashed off the coast of western Japan, local media reported on Thursday citing Japanese government sources.
Two U.S. military jets have crashed off the coast of western Japan, local media reported Thursday, quoting Japanese government sources.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Support Base in Djibouti conducted a medical rescue drill with the Spanish navy on Saturday, improving the capability of regional joint humanitarian rescue efforts.
Twenty-three civilians, including at least 10 children and eight women, were killed and three children injured following an airstrike in Afghanistan's restive southern province of Helmand on Tuesday, the UN mission in the country said Friday.
The United States Air Force has confirmed the flight of bombers over the Korean Peninsula has been suspended at the request of Seoul.
The Chinese military is aware of the recent passage of two United States naval ships through the Taiwan Straits and will remain vigilant, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday.
A spokesman for the Chinese military on Thursday said that China's standby peacekeeping force had passed an assessment by the United Nations.
China's third aircraft carrier is now under construction, the Xinhua News Agency said via its WeChat public account on early Sunday, with Chinese military experts saying on Monday that the warship is expected to be launched in two and a half years.
China is modifying its domestically made strategic transport aircraft Y-20 to take on new missions like aerial refueling, a military insider said.
China has launched work on building its third aircraft carrier, Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday.
China's rustbelt provinces have seen its economic growth picking up in recent months, shrugging off bleak outlook for the economy in previous years.Dongbei, or northeast in Chinese, refers to the three provinces of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang that once were the most important heavy industry bases in China.
US Defense Secretary James Mattis said on Wednesday that the joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea scheduled for next spring would be reorganized.
Foreign military attaches from nearly 60 countries have been invited to visit the Ministry of National Defense's peacekeeping center, a military source said Wednesday.
USS Ronald Reagan, a Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier, was scheduled to make a port call in Hong Kong together with three other U.S. Navy warships Wednesday. As China-U.S. relations remain tense and with the meeting between President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump looming, the event attracted special attention.
Pyongyang exploded 10 guard posts in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Tuesday as part of an inter-Korean agreement to withdraw them to reduce tensions and prevent accidental clashes, Yonhap reported, citing Seoul's defense ministry.
Senior Chinese and U.S. military officers praised the successful completion of a disaster management exchange (DME) between the two militaries during the weekend in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province, as the two sides agreed on the importance of building understanding and mutual trust through similar operations.
Argentina's ARA San Juan submarine, which went missing a year ago, has been located, an official said.
Two U.S. aircraft carriers with around 150 fighter jets are staging warfare drills in west Pacific, the U.S. Navy said on Thursday.
Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), visited the test ground of the Academy of Defence Science and supervised a newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon test, the official KCNA news agency reported on Friday.
The Chinese military will reform the way it makes policy by 2020 and establish a robust socialist system of military policy with Chinese characteristics by 2022, the Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday.
China's most advanced stealth fighter jet, the J-20, is now ready for aerial refueling operations that will help the jet reach farther targets, as national television showcased the aircraft's embedded refueling probe on Tuesday.
President Xi Jinping has called for the military to reform its policy system to form a solid foundation in order to build a world-class force.
The United States has appropriated and is obligated to spend an estimated 5.9 trillion dollars on the war on terror through Fiscal Year 2019, including direct war and war-related spending and obligations for future spending on post 9/11 war veterans, according to a study released Wednesday.
President Xi Jinping has highlighted the significance and urgency of pushing forward reform on military policy and institution to build a socialist system of military policy and institution with Chinese characteristics.
Mianyang's reputation as a leader in science and technology has grown in recent years, but the city's involvement in the sector actually stretches back decades.
Based on an agreement between the Chinese and U.S. militaries, the two sides are holding a disaster management exchange in Nanjing, eastern China's Jiangsu Province.
