Katie Nordeen spends the night aboard underway Navy aircraft carrier

NORFOLK, Va. (WGHP) — It's one of the most dangerous places in the world—the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.

As part of becoming a sailor for a day with the US Fleet Forces Command, FOX8's Katie Nordeen boarded the USS Gerald R. Ford, underway hundreds of miles off the North Carolina coast.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially to include the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two sources said, in what would be an unprecedented shakeup at the Pentagon. The planning for the firings is at an early stage after Trump's Nov. 5 election victory and could change as Trump's administration takes shape, said the sources, who are familiar with the Trump transition and requested anonymity to speak candidly about the plans. One of the sources questioned the feasibility of a mass firing at the Pentagon.

A new palletized ground-based launcher concept that can be loaded with up to two dozen 227mm guided artillery rockets at a time – four times what an M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) can pack at once – recently broke cover. The launch system is designed to be carried on a 10-wheeled cargo truck and can also fire other weapons, including short-range ballistic missiles and surface-to-air interceptors. Lockheed Martin displayed the launcher on a U.S. Marine Corps 10×10 MKR18 Logistics Vehicle System Replacement (LVSR) truck at the Human-Machine Integration Summit IV last week.

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guided a test of suicide drones and ordered a mass production of the aerial weapon, saying the introduction of such drones around the world requires an urgent update of military theory, state media said on Friday. Kim had previously supervised the test of suicide drones, earlier in the year amid a rapidly developing military cooperation with Russia, raising questions as to whether he was receiving technical help from Moscow to develop them. Also known as loitering munitions, such weapons have been widely used in the war in Ukraine as well as in the Middle East.

In a series of war games in the seas and skies around Taiwan last month, China deployed some of its newest strike aircraft, warships and missile forces. Like America, which still relies on upgraded versions of the B-52, a bomber from the same era, China has successfully modernized its jet-powered H-6 to carry on flying deep into the 21st Century. These bombers were shown on China's state-controlled media taking off for missions designed to intimidate Taiwan as part of the war-game drills.

Across hours of podcast and television interviews, Army veteran and Fox News host Pete Hegseth has articulated his plan for a "frontal assault" to reform the Department of Defense from the top down, including by purging "woke" generals, limiting women from some combat roles, eliminating diversity goals and utilizing the "real threat of violence" to reassert the United States as a global power. As President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for the Secretary of Defense, Hegseth, 44, could have the chance to implement that vision, commanding the country's more than a million active duty soldiers. Hegseth has worked for Fox News since 2014, where he co-hosts "FOX & Friends Weekend."

A CIA employee accused of leaking classified information assessing Israel's earlier plans to attack Iran was ordered by a federal judge Thursday to face felony charges in Virginia. The FBI arrested Asif William Rahman this week in Cambodia, and he made his first court appearance Thursday in Guam. A judge there ordered that he be transferred to northern Virginia, where he was indicted last week on two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information.

The hosts of Fox & Friends were apparently just as surprised as everybody else to learn that Donald Trump had chosen their colleague Pete Hegseth as his next defense secretary. The president-elect announced his eyebrow-raising nomination on Truth Social Tuesday, describing Hegseth—an Army veteran and now-former Fox & Friends Weekend co-host—as "tough, smart and a true believer in America first." The decision was met with widespread bewilderment even among GOP lawmakers.

The design is said to be reconfigurable to conduct different missions, including attacks on enemy vessels, mine-laying, special operations support, and act as a mothership for smaller uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUV). There is a very strong possibility this is related to an extremely similar-looking mystery submarine that emerged in China six years ago. The China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has a model of what it is calling a "small special operations unmanned submarine" on display at this year's Zhuhai Airshow.

The Israeli military said it had attacked more than 100 targets in Gaza and Lebanon in the last 24 hours as it continues fighting on multiple fronts in its war against Islamist groups. The military targeted weapons depots, rocket launchers and command centres, the military said. "The troops found a large quantity of weapons and eliminated dozens of terrorists from the air and from the ground," the military said in a statement about the army's operations in Beit Lahia and Jabalia, the refugee cam

The Russian military has attacked the Ukrainian capital Kiev with missiles and drones, in the first such combined attack for months, according to the Ukrainian military. The head of the military administration, Serhiy Popko, said on Wednesday that several missiles and drones were shot down during the attack. In the district of Brovary, east of Kiev, one person was slightly injured by falling rocket debris and one building was destroyed by a fire, the authorities said. According to the Ukrainian

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Russia has lost so many tanks in Ukraine that the nation's largest studio has donated movie props to bolster its armor force. "I knew that they needed them, so I got in touch with the Defense Ministry, and they took these vehicles."

NATO and the European Union are ramping up efforts to persuade China to help get North Korea to stop sending troops and other support to Russia to back its war on Ukraine. Up to 12,000 North Korean troops have been sent to Russia's Kursk border region to help beat back Ukrainian forces there, according to U.S., South Korean and Ukrainian intelligence assessments. NATO says Russia is sending missile technology to North Korea in return.

Human Rights Watch says Israel is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, including massive forced displacements that amount to ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from parts of Gaza. Palestinians have been killed while evacuating under Israeli orders and in Israeli-designated humanitarian zones, where hundreds of thousands are crammed into squalid tent camps, according to the report released Thursday by the New York-based rights watchdog. The report said the widespread, deliberate demolition of homes and civilian infrastructure throughout Gaza, particularly in a military road that cuts Gaza in half as well as a buffer zone along the border, was likely to "permanently displace" many Palestinians.

The United States is committed to ensuring Ukraine can keep defending against Russia in 2025 and negotiate from "a position of strength," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at NATO headquarters on Wednesday. US President Joe Biden will make sure "that every dollar" promised to Ukraine will be sent before January 20, Blinken said. Biden will hand over the presidency to President-elect Donald Trump on January 20. Trump said during his election campaign that he would quickly end the war in U

President-elect Donald Trump's selection of Pete Hegseth as U.S. defense secretary was met on Wednesday with surprise at the Pentagon and bewilderment among some European allies, but some Republican lawmakers rallied around the Fox News host. Hegseth, a veteran with scant government experience, has disdained so-called "woke" policies of Pentagon leaders, opposed having women in combat roles, and questioned whether the top U.S. general was in his position because of his skin color. The 44-year-old's selection shocked many at the Pentagon, where officials privately questioned what qualified him for the position.

The Pentagon and the Director of National Intelligence have released the annual report on UFO sightings and while they still haven't found any extraterrestrial origin for the more than 700 new reports that came in last year, there are about two dozen that have them really curious. UAP is the term the Pentagon and the intelligence community use to describe UFOs, which stands for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. The agency that reviews all of the new incidents being reported by military personnel and now additional federal agencies is the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).

Israel rejected on Wednesday accusations made by eight international aid groups, including Oxfam and Save the Children, that Israel had failed to meet U.S. demands to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Washington said on Tuesday that Israel had made progress in implementing the list of demands which it had given Israel 30 days to complete or face a potential halt in U.S. military support. COGAT, the branch of the Israeli military which coordinates humanitarian aid to Gaza, said humanitarian organisations had not coordinated with, or sought information from, the military before filing their report and thus had produced a conclusion based on "partial information".