The US President says he wants testing to start for the first time in more than 30 years on 'equal basis' with other superpowers

Defense startup Castelion said on Friday it has won contracts to integrate its Blackbeard hypersonic strike weapon with current U.S. Army systems, the first step toward allowing the military to place the powerful and nearly unstoppable weapons around the world.

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford, billed by the US Navy as “the most capable, adaptable, and lethal combat platform in the world,” is being sent to the Caribbean as the Trump administration ramps up military pressure on Venezuela over alleged drug trafficking.

Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles declared that the weapons of war on display spanned “the breadth of the beautiful, the menacing and the extremely cool” and represented the highpoint of “human ingenuity.

There has been renewed focus on nuclear arsenals after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, James C Reynolds and Maryam Zakir-Hussain report

President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to begin testing US nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, heralding a potentially major shift in decades of US policy at a time of growing tensions between the world’s nuclear-armed superpowers.

Pakistani national Muhammad Pahlawan received a 40-year prison sentence for involvement in smuggling Iranian-made weaponry. Convicted of providing support to terrorists and weapons smuggling, his activities were linked to Iran's weapons program and Houthi rebel forces.

"As dangerous threats to America's safety increase with each passing day, so does the need to combat any potential enemy. For almost 20 years, a leading defense enterprise has been developing a prototype of a gunpowder-less weapon: the General Atomics electromagnetic railgun.