The Military Stories for 2019

Russia Claims New Missile is 27 Times Faster Than Sound 189
US Tests Ways To Sweep Space Clean of Radiation After Nuclear Attack 78
The Navy's Flawed Bridge Technology Set the USS McCain Up For Disaster 167
Retired US General Claims Revolutionary Transport Technology, Warns China Could Dominate Space 161
The U.S. Navy Bans TikTok from Government-Issued Mobile Devices 26
Many Security-Critical Military Systems Are Now Using Linux 78
President Trump Officially Adds a New Branch to the U.S. Military: Space Force 249
America's Air Force Seeks Commercial Technologies For 'Space Domain Awareness' 27
America Considers Declassifying Military Information on US, Chinese, and Russian Space Programs 55
Turkey is Getting Military Drones Armed With Machine Guns 93
Cyberattack Hits City of Pensacola After Shooting At Naval Air Station 13
Why Is Russia's Suspected Internet Cable Spy Ship In the Mid-Atlantic? 107
The US Is Suspected of Killing a Terrorist In Syria Using Missile With Knife Warhead 227
DOD Joins Fight Against 5G Spectrum Proposal, Citing Risks To GPS 33
One Reason the US Military Can't Fix Its Own Equipment 85
Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract 78
Six Arrested For Selling Chinese Gear To Military As 'Made In America' 95
This Is How the US Military's Massive Facial Recognition System Works 51
Pentagon Awaits Possible Amazon Challenge Over Cloud Deal 50
The Drone Wars Are Already Here 73
After Two Years The Air Force's X-37B Space Plane Finally Lands 39
Researchers Transmit Energy With A Laser In 'Historic' Power-Beaming Demonstration 109
Microsoft Beats Amazon To Win the Pentagon's $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract 51
US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due To Climate Change, Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says 262
Open Database Leaked 179GB In Customer, US Government, and Military Records 15
'Hyperstealth' Invisibility Cloak Developed For Military Use 113
Tom DeLonge's UFO Research Group Signs Contract With US Army To Develop Far-Future Tech 77
Air Force Finally Retires 8-Inch Floppies From Missile Launch Control System 77
China's Helicopter Prototype Looks Like a UFO 60
US Navy Files Patent For Compact Fusion Reactor 172
China Confirms New Hypersonic Nuclear Missile On 70th Anniversary 187
Does The Military Need Agile Programming? 141
The Air Force Is Deploying Its First Drone-Killing Microwave Weapon 41
US Military Apologizes For Joking about Bombing 'Millennials' Who Might Storm Area 51 95
Ex-Google Engineer Says That Robot Weapons May Cause Accidental Mass Killings 107
Navy Confirms Existence of UFOs Seen In Leaked Footage 197
US Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Sets New Record For Time In Space 50
Does Playing Video Games Improve Your Workplace Performance? 25
Here's What Would Happen If You Tried to Storm Area 51 202
Trump Launches Space Command 190
Oracle Files New Appeal Over Pentagon's $10B JEDI Cloud Contract RFP Process 48
Pentagon Conducts First Test of Previously Banned Missile 142
The US Army Wants To Microwave Drones in Midair 191
A Major Cyber Attack Could Be Just As Deadly As Nuclear Weapons 132
US Navy Tests WWII-ERA Messaging Tech: Dropping Bean Bags Onto Ships 95
Cray Is Building a Supercomputer To Manage the US' Nuclear Stockpile 65
Russia Orders Evacuation of Village Near Site of Nuclear Accident, Then Cancels It 57
Russia Says New Weapon Blew Up In Nuclear Accident Last Week 72
France Is Making Space-Based Anti-Satellite Laser Weapons 184
Justice John Paul Stevens, Dead At 99, Promoted the Internet Revolution 90
Jet-Powered Flyboard Soars Over Paris For Bastille Day Parade 127
Thousands of People Have Taken a Facebook Pledge To Storm Area 51 345
A Sunken Cold War Nuclear Sub Is Leaking Radiation At Levels 800,000 Times Normal 149
Engineer Faces 219 Years In Prison For Smuggling US Military Chips To China 102
Air Force Accidentally Dropped Dummy Bombs On Florida After Hitting a Bird 132
Oracle On Why It Thinks AWS Winning Pentagon's $10 Billion Jedi Cloud Contract Stinks 116
The Pentagon Has a Laser That Can Identify People From a Distance By Their Heartbeat 63
Iran Steps Up Cyberattacks Against America 216
NASA Overcomes Military's GPS Tweaks To Peer Inside Hurricanes 53
The Man Whose Bizarre Tank Designs Made the D-Day Victory Possible 122
Alan Turing Receives a (Late) Obituary From the NYT 86
'U.S. Navy Says UFOs Are Real, UFO Hunters Are Thrilled' 441
Russian Military Moves Closer To Replacing Windows With Astra Linux 95
TurboTax Is Using A 'Military Discount' to Trick Troops Into Paying to File Their Taxes 90
Why the US Air Force Is Investigating a Cyber Attack From the US Navy 59
'Phenomenal' 2,300-Year-Old Bark Shield Found In Leicestershire 44
UN Chief Warns Nuclear Waste Could Be Leaking Into the Pacific 97
5G Networks Will Likely Interfere With US Weather Satellites, Navy Warns 62
Drones Used Missiles With Knife Warhead To Take Out Single Terrorist Targets 327
Chinese University Tests Fully Recoverable Hypersonic Winged Rocket 129
West Virginia Will Allow 'Blockchain Voting' In the 2020 Election 89
Dragons, Nuclear Weapons, and Game of Thrones 86
Much To Oracle's Chagrin, Pentagon Names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B JEDI Cloud Contract Finalists 56
Debris From India's Anti-Satellite Test Poses Threat To ISS, Says NASA 217
Does India's Anti-Satellite Missile Test Mean The Weaponization of Space? 85
Missile Defense Test Intercepts ICBM Target, Says Pentagon 109
Germany Urged To Champion Global Treaty To Ban 'Killer Robots' 53
Pentagon Wants To Test a Space-Based Weapon In 2023 143
North Korea Advertises Military Hardware On Twitter and YouTube, Defying Sanctions 61
US Army Assures Public That Robot Tanks Adhere To AI Murder Policy 118
Boeing's Autonomous Fighter Jet Could Arrive Next Year 130
Microsoft CEO Defends Pentagon Contract Following Employee Outcry 221
Microsoft Workers' Letter Demands Company Drop $479 Million HoloLens Military Contract 275
Trump Directs Pentagon To Create Space Force Legislation for Congress 259
Game of Thrones Hacker Worked With US Defector To Hack Air Force Employees of Iran 67
Pentagon Documents the Military's Growing Domestic Drone Use 36
A Poker-Playing Robot Goes To Work for the Pentagon 68