The Trump administration is finding Taiwan to be a more than willing partner as it continues to look for ways to counter China

Iron Man-style powered armor has proven impractical. New flexible, wearable electronics offer an alternative path to help the infantry.

Hacking a spy satellite, stealth fighter, or smart bomb is very different from hacking a computer network, so the US military needs different defenses.

“This is a radar they’re going to buy for, I don’t know, 30 years?  So you want to make sure you’ve got new technology that can meet the threats of the future.”

The test was a big achievement for two much-criticized programs: the Joint Strike Fighter and the Army’s IBCS network — and for the services’ struggle to work better together in a future war.

Pentagon brass universally support the US developing a new generation of conventional intermediate long-range missiles, and the Army is rushing to meet the challenge as the INF Treaty approaches its likely Aug. 2 demise.

As dozens of US and allied warships operate in the Pacific, trailed by a Chinese spy ship, the Trump administration debates selling new F-16s to Taiwan.

“We’re back on the contract schedule,” Sikorsky program director Greg Hames told reporters visiting the company’s test site.

Flying sideways, backwards, in pirouettes, and in a markedly quiet stealth mode, the hybrid helicopter-turboprop demonstrated the maneuverability the Army considers essential to survive high-tech future battles with Russia or China.

The company is confident that there is no inherent flaw in the design. Instead, they say, there was a software error that would have hamstrung any aircraft — and that error won’t happen again.