The Department of the Air Force has awarded three companies positions on a potential $300 million blanket purchase agreement to supply construction materials needed to build a runway on Tinian in the ...

The significant airfield repair and upgrade work might support frontline fighters in the future, as the U.S. develops distributed basing to counter China in the western Pacific. As a part of its plan ...

The final assault on Tinian saw the Marines methodically clear bunkers, caves, and airfields, overcoming snipers, traps, and lingering Japanese resistance. Flamethrower tanks and engineers neutralized ...

Tinian has become the first public entity in the United States to approve and prepare the issuance of a USD-backed stablecoin (Marianas US Dollar, or MUSD). The MUSD stablecoin, backed by cash and U.S ...

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U.S. military forces are restoring the historic World War II airfield at North Field Air Base on Tinian, reclaiming it from jungle growth in a $409 million, five-year project. The reclaimed airfield ...

Northern Mariana Islands Governor Arnold Palacios has vetoed a bill that would have allowed a local government in the US territory to launch its own stablecoin. Update (April 15, 10:47 am UTC): This ...

United States fighter jets have been conducting training exercises at a strategic island in the Western Pacific Ocean, where a World War II airfield is being reclaimed. Newsweek has reached out to the ...

Exhausted yet unbroken, the Marines turned their focus to Tinian. Using deception, pre-invasion bombardments, and decoy ...

For 80 years after the bombing of Hiroshima, the airfields of Tinian Island, from where the bombers took off, were mostly abandoned to the jungle. Now, amid a push to strengthen America's military ...

Restoration of two of the four runways at North Field is expected to be completed by 2027, while military engineers continue to repave roads and repair buildings. It was from North Field on Tinian, ...