KADENA AIR BASE — Nearly 1,000 miles southwest of Tokyo, on the island of Okinawa, sits the US military’s Kadena Air Base, the largest US installation in the Indo-Pacific. Breaking Defense recently ...

A Canadian patrol aircraft enforcing United Nations sanctions on North Korea was intercepted twice by Chinese fighter jets over the East China Sea, highlighting the growing tension between Beijing and ...

Anna Coren, CBS News foreign correspondent based in Hong Kong, is an Emmy Award-winning international correspondent who covers the Asia-Pacific region. East China Sea — Over the deep blue waters of ...

Gen. Ken Wilsbach, then-Pacific Air Forces commander, returns from a flight at Kadena Air Base, Japan, April 17, 2023. Wilsbach had been slated for retirement but is now nominated to be the next Air ...

Donald Dean (Don) DeHart, 89, of Cleveland, passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, at Legacy Senior Living, where he had been a resident since May 2025. He was born on March 21, 1936, in Holcomb, ...

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — About 60 residents of Chatan town walked onto this key U.S. air base over the weekend for an annual tsunami drill, less than two months after an actual scare in July.

The Department of Defense said Tuesday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers a broad range of construction projects situated on and off military ...

An attendee of America Fest 2025 takes a photo of a U.S. Marine Corps MQ-9A MUX/MALE unmanned aircraft with Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 3, Marine Aircraft Group 24, 1st Marine Aircraft ...

TOKYO – The U.S. Marine Corps is planning to formally deploy MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicles for reconnaissance that are currently stationed temporarily at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture, it has ...

An Air Force F-35 pilot was on the phone midair with Lockheed Martin engineers for nearly an hour attempting to resolve a landing gear issue before ultimately having to eject from the jet, according ...

An F-15E Strike was flying from Diego Garcia to Kadena when it was discovered that a wheel was missing. A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle conducted an emergency landing on Aug. 4, 2025, at Kadena ...