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Byline: Patrick Kingsley, Natan Odenheimer, Bilal Shbair, Ronen Bergman, John Ismay, Sheera Frenkel and Adam Sella At exactly 1 p.m. on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel's military leadership issued an order [...]

Byline: John Ismay and Desiree Rios In a warehouse off Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway in an industrial area outside Dallas, the future of American military ammunition production is coming online. [...]

Byline: John Ismay, Edward Wong and Pablo Robles Additional work by Scott Reinhard, Martín González Gómez and Agnes [...]

Byline: John Ismay The one-ton Mark 84 bomb was designed shortly after World War II. Adding guidance kits has kept it in use for more than 70 years. When President [...]

Byline: John Ismay and Eric Schmitt What would $60 billion buy? Lots of air-defense missiles and artillery ammunition, according to the Pentagon. Shipments of American weapons could begin flowing to [...]

Byline: John Ismay, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Haley Willis, Malachy Browne, Christoph Koettl and Alexander Cardia The Sept. 6 missile strike on Kostiantynivka in eastern Ukraine was one of the deadliest in [...]

Byline: John Ismay Called the Geran-2, the drones are a Russian-made version of the Shahed-136, which explodes on impact, researchers say. Russia has begun making copies of attack drones it [...]

Byline: Dave Philipps and John Ismay Decades behind its initial schedule, the dangerous job of eliminating the world's only remaining declared stockpile of lethal chemical munitions will be completed as [...]

Byline: John Ismay Kicked out of the Navy in 1940 for publicly criticizing the racist abuse they suffered on their warship, 15 Black men were posthumously exonerated at the Pentagon [...]

Byline: Ana Swanson and John Ismay The previously unreported shipments between a state-owned Chinese company and a Russian munitions factory last year raise new questions about Beijing's role in Russia's [...]

Byline: Anatoly Kurmanaev and John Ismay Tuesday's drone strike on Moscow further demonstrated the spread of the war in Ukraine to the Russian capital, putting a spotlight on the city's [...]

Byline: Lara Jakes and John Ismay Ukraine's defense minister reported the first U.S.-made Patriot air-defense battery had arrived this week, but secret documents show Kyiv was still waiting for tanks [...]

Byline: John Ismay and Eric Schmitt The Air Force also announced actions focused on security protocols following the arrest of an Air National Guardsman accused of posting classified documents online. [...]

Byline: John Ismay and Kenny Holston SOGAKOPE, Ghana - Troops clad in black jumped out of motorboats near a riverside resort and made their way along a wood-slat fence to [...]

Byline: John Ismay, Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Andrew E. Kramer Moscow on Thursday fired the largest number of the air-launched weapons used in a single wave since the war began [...]

Byline: John Ismay A 10-day exercise gave a new Marine regiment the chance to test war-fighting concepts the Pentagon may one day need in a battle with China. TWENTYNINE PALMS, [...]

Byline: John Ismay, Natalie Keyssar, Lyndon French, Marisa Schwartz Taylor and Rebecca Lieberman Every day for months, Ukrainian soldiers have fired thousands of American-made artillery shells at Russian troops, and [...]

Byline: Eric Schmitt, Adam Entous, Ronen Bergman, John Ismay and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Israeli officials had initially expressed concerns that the move could damage its relations with Russia. WASHINGTON - The [...]

Byline: John Ismay The United States is giving satellite-guided bombs to Kyiv for the first time as part of a new $1.85 billion military aid package. An American weapon first [...]

Byline: John Ismay and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Ukrainian soldiers are firing thousands of shells daily, forcing the U.S. to replace gun barrels across the border in Poland. WASHINGTON - Ukrainian troops [...]

Byline: Lara Jakes and John Ismay Portable, lethal and high-tech munitions like Stinger and Javelin missiles are a focus of a monitoring program operating from the embassy in Kyiv. Following [...]

Byline: John Ismay The idea of radiological dispersal devices is not new, and Russia's claim that Ukraine would build and use one has been met with scorn from the West. [...]

Byline: Edward Wong and John Ismay Officials say Taiwan needs to become a 'porcupine' with enough weapons to hold out if the Chinese military blockades and invades it, even if [...]

Byline: John Ismay Investigators who examined the electronics in Russia's newest cruise missiles and attack helicopters were surprised to find decades-old technology reused from earlier models. WASHINGTON - As Russian [...]

Byline: Eric Schmitt, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and John Ismay The potential delivery of hundreds of Iranian drones would help the Kremlin replenish a fleet that has suffered steep losses in Ukraine. [...]

Byline: Eric Schmitt and John Ismay The powerful and highly mobile weapons systems, which can fire guided rockets with a range of 40 miles, are desperately needed in the battle [...]

Byline: Ana Swanson, John Ismay and Edward Wong Global restrictions on sending advanced technology to Russia are hampering the country's military capacity, U.S. officials say, though Russia has stockpiled American [...]

Byline: John Ismay The lack of warplanes at Russia's Victory Day parade underscores President Vladimir V. Putin's failure to build a capable modern air force. On Monday morning, as columns [...]

Byline: John Ismay and Eric Schmitt Soviet-designed ammunition is part of the 'life blood' for Ukrainian troops fighting Russia, and the United States is keeping it flowing. IN POLAND, NEAR [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and John Ismay The New York Times verified that Ukraine's forces appeared to fire at least two of these internationally banned weapons in a neighborhood, putting Ukrainian [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and John Ismay Civilians near Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine are discovering a new threat: munitions that eject up to two dozen small mines that explode at intervals. [...]

Byline: Julian E. Barnes and John Ismay NATO allies are focused on providing Kyiv with high-tech defensive weapons that are easy to use and move. WASHINGTON - The Biden administration [...]

Byline: Eric Schmitt and John Ismay The effectiveness of the weapons against the better-equipped Russian Army depends on what Moscow orders its troops to do. WASHINGTON - President Biden has [...]

Byline: Jennifer Steinhauer and John Ismay EDGEWATER, Md. - In a grainy video chat, Zak shared the latest from his embattled province in Afghanistan, an update as grim as it [...]

Byline: John Ismay and Helene Cooper Defense Department officials acknowledge that rooting out far-right extremist thinking from a military of 1.3 million active-duty troops will be an uphill slog. WASHINGTON [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Julian E. Barnes, Matthew Rosenberg and John Ismay WASHINGTON - Senior White House advisers have proposed secretly expanding the C.I.A.'s presence in Afghanistan if international forces begin [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and John Ismay WASHINGTON - The Army has failed to adequately train and equip the military bomb technicians and infantry troops who are increasingly accompanying American commandos [...]

Byline: ALI WATKINS, JOHN ISMAY and THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF Jeff Swarey bought his AR-15 rifle five years ago after shooting guns in video games. Jessie K. Fletcher, a former Marine sniper, [...]

Byline: HELENE COOPER, ERIC SCHMITT, THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF and JOHN ISMAY WASHINGTON -- Across the military, officers and troops are quietly preparing for a war they hope will not come. At [...]

Byline: JOHN ISMAY, THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF and C. J. CHIVERS WASHINGTON -- Late this spring, Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State in Mosul discovered three unfired rocket-propelled grenades with an unusual [...]

Byline: JOHN ISMAY, ERIC SCHMITT and THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF WASHINGTON -- Two Navy SEAL commandos under investigation in the strangling of an Army Green Beret soldier in June in Mali have [...]

Byline: MARK MAZZETTI, NICHOLAS KULISH, CHRISTOPHER DREW, SERGE F. KOVALESKI, SEAN D. NAYLOR and JOHN ISMAY They have plotted deadly missions from secret bases in the badlands of Somalia. In [...]