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A high altitude balloon floats over Billings, Mont., on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. The US is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over US airspace for a couple days, but the Pentagon decided not to shoot it down due to risks of harm for people on the ground, officials said Thursday, February 2, 2023. The Pentagon would not confirm that the balloon in the photo was the surveillance balloon. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)
February 3, 2023, 5:08 am
US tracking suspected Chinese spy balloon spotted high over Montana
Pentagon declines to shoot down craft thought to be snooping on missile silo, due to fears of falling debris; claims balloon won’t find anything satellites can’t already see
By TARA COPP and Lolita C. Baldor
A soldier walks past a line of M1 Abrams tanks, November 29, 2016, at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP)
January 25, 2023, 9:22 pm
US to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, following Germany’s lead
Biden says vehicles, part of new $400 million aid package, will help Kyiv ‘counter Russia’s evolving tactics and strategy on the battlefield’
By Lolita C. Baldor and TARA COPP
The image from video provided by the Department of Defense labelled Gimbal, from 2015, an unexplained object is seen at center as it is tracked as it soars high along the clouds, traveling against the wind. (Department of Defense via AP)
December 17, 2022, 4:42 pm
Pentagon receives hundreds of new UFO reports — though no evidence of aliens yet
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office says it has seen uptick in reporting of unidentified objects in the sky; some may have been new technologies flown by Russia, China
By TARA COPP
This undated artist rending provided by the U.S. Air Force shows a US Air Force graphic of the Long Range Strike Bomber, designated the B-21. (US Air Force via AP)
December 2, 2022, 7:49 pm
In message to China, US unveiling new B-21 Raider stealth bomber
Highly classified B-21 is first new American nuclear bomber aircraft in more than 30 years and was developed and built in just seven years
By TARA COPP
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a media conference after a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Oct. 12, 2022. (AP/Olivier Matthys, File)
November 10, 2022, 5:38 am
100,000 Russian troops killed or injured in Ukraine, US estimates
Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says Ukraine ‘probably’ suffered similar military casualties, killings of as many as 40,000 civilians
By TARA COPP
Then-defense secretary Ash Carter speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, June 30, 2016. (Alex Brandon/AP)
October 25, 2022, 5:40 pm
Ash Carter, Obama defense chief who opened military combat jobs to women, dies at 68
Groundbreaking former official succumbs to a heart attack; as a senior figure in Obama administration, he also ended a ban on transgender people serving in the armed forces
By TARA COPP
In this image provided by the US Army, soldiers, from the 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment of the 18th Field Artillery Brigade out of Fort Bragg North Carolina, conduct live fire testing at White Sands Missile Range, on December 14, 2021, of early versions of the Army Tactical Missile System. (John Hamilton/US Army via AP)
October 13, 2022, 3:51 pm
The US weapons systems Ukraine may or may not get
Kyiv has increased push for advanced weaponry as it absorbs renewed Russian missile attacks
By TARA COPP and Lolita C. Baldor
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