"Things are moving (in) a positive direction," Gen. Hyten said of North Korean, while Russia's new 2-megaton underwater drone "does not change" the strategic balance.

After months of speculation, Esper meets the fate of so many other officials over the past four years and is fired by Tweet

The Scandinavian nation divested of submarines in 2004 but lawmakers are actively considering whether to acquire them again.

"Unfortunately, DoD hasn't bought a Stinger in about 18 years. Some of components are no longer commercially available, and so we're going to have to go out and redesign some of the electronics in...

“Replacing ships lost in combat will be problematic," Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger writes in a forthcoming paper. "Our industrial base has shrunk while peer adversaries have expanded their...

"What this document says is, we have to anticipate this (Ukraine) emergency. Don't wait till it's upon us," said Rikki Kersten, honorary professor at the Australian National University.

“I think [a Nordic air operations center] would be a benefit for us, and it can be a benefit for NATO,” said Maj. Gen. Rolf Folland, chief of the Royal Norwegian Air Force.

Santa's swinging by to help them celebrate the twentieth year of humans living continuously in the station. (As I write this, NORAD has pinpointed Santa swinging by Valetta, Malta)

Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder dodged questions about a reported impending US announcement, as reports also claim Berlin has reversed course on sending Leopard 2 tanks to Kyiv.

“I'm happy to report that toxic fumes were one of our concerns at the production decision and we've been doing some engineering and testing, and I can confidently say today that that is an issue that...

The designation marks the first time that a stealth fighter can carry a nuclear weapon, in this case the B61-12 thermonuclear gravity bomb.

The US government will pay for all facilities it builds on Norwegian soil, and will not permanently base any troops there, officials in Oslo were quick to point out.

The LRDR not only will improve ballistic missile tracking for homeland defense, but also will contribute to space domain awareness, said Northern Command's Director of Operations Brig. Gen. Joey...

Marines have spent several years doing what the Army said it cannot do, integrating Iron Dome components into its larger air defense architecture. The USMC now has approval to continue developing its...

The service announced that the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) program will now be called the XM30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle, and revealed new details about its basic design.

“The way that Starlink was able to upgrade when a threat showed up, we need to be able to have that ability," said Dave Tremper, the Pentagon's director of electronic warfare. "We have to be able to...

"The F-35 is the cornerstone of the U.S. Air Force fighter fleet” today and in the future, said Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown.

“In a perfect world, I'd love to have all second interceptors able to address all threats, that's what we're asking for,” said Brig. Gen. Frank Lozano, describing a potential five-year development...

The award is worth up to $1.3 billion, but a follow-on production contract could put the program in the range of $70 billion over its lifetime.

Greenland, in the Danish kingdom, could boost North American security as a NORAD member, argue RAND's Michael Bohnert and Scott Savitz.

The "Milestone C" decision is a crucial moment signifying the department's confidence in the performance of the F-35 and maturity of Lockheed Martin's production system, though the plane has been in...

RUSI’s Justin Bronk has an idea of what Europe should be doing to help the US in the Indo-Pacific, and it doesn’t include sending the Charles De Gaulle.

Jerusalem previously expressed interest in the F-15s, along with F-35s, but political instability delayed the official move.

The Army plans to "to design a more survivable, lighter tank that will be more effective on the battlefield at initial fielding, and more easy to upgrade in the future," the service announced tonight.

Boeing, General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and startup Anduril are in play to field the Air Force’s collaborative combat aircraft, Breaking Defense has learned.

The Australian government said a Chinese ship "was detected operating its hull-mounted sonar in a manner that posed a risk to the safety of the Australian divers who were forced to exit the water."

Major General Karel Řehka, Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Republic Army, said Russia's invasion of Ukraine has showed the criticality of urgent modernization, starting with five key priori...

The largest package announced today involves the UK buying 3,000 AGM-179A Joint Air-to-Ground missiles for an estimated $957.4 million.

A career surface warfare officer, Franchetti is currently Vice Chief of Naval Operations and previously commanded the Naples, Italy-based US 6th Fleet.

Scrapping Boeing's Redesigned Kill Vehicle program -- which was put on hold in March -- will kick off a new effort to build a modernized generation of ballistic missile interceptors.

Gamebreaker is about building an AI that can play a wargame in the best and most unfair way against its opponents.

The B-21, the first new bomber for the Air Force in over 30 years, "looks imposing, but what's under the frame and the space-age coatings is even more impressive," Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin...

“When people see the exterior of the B-21, it will be very similar to the B-2,” Kathy Warden said in an interview with Breaking Defense. “The real differences are inside of the platform."

Though the UK will get three planes instead of five, the procurement report estimates that the E-7 program will cost $2.5 billion, only marginally less costly than the $2.7 billion agreed in the...

In which the Breaking Defense team attempts to explain the differences between the UK-led FCAS, the Franco-German-Spanish FCAS, the UK-Italian-Japanese GCAP and all the other sixth-generation fighter...

While over 900 F-35s have been produced, the program has technically been stuck in its initial operational testing phase for years over the delayed completion of the trials.

The dollar figure from the secretary comes as Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson said he is ready to bring the supplemental funding bill the Navy needs passed to the floor for a vote.

The new yet-unnamed drone can carry up to 16 Hellfire missiles at a time — double the load of an MQ-1C Gray Eagle.

As conversations at the Thursday dinner with the Korean ambassador, Jeong-sik Kang, and several senior Korean defense officials made crystal clear, any one defense program is less important to the...

"In denying the protest, GAO concluded that the Army reasonably evaluated Sikorsky’s proposal as technically unacceptable because Sikorsky failed to provide the level of architectural detail required...

"Right at the back of the UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle], there is a system that absorbs much of the kinetic energy produced by the firing," S.A.S technology designer Christos Christou told Breaking...

A British defense committee meeting heard about concerns brought on by the war in Ukraine, the state of British tanks (some Ukraine-bound) and a potential recovery for the Ajax recon vehicle program.

In the competition for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft, high agility and low life-cycle costs matter most, a former Marine tiltrotor test pilot argues.

The Army plans to select up to four vendors for the designing, prototyping, and building a lightweight, easily transportable robotic platform.

The Mobile Protected Firepower program, a light tank for infantry brigades, is one of the Army's top modernization priorities and the service's first new design vehicle in 40 years.

“Our continued inability to build and sustain an adequate inventory of F-35 pilots leads me to conclude that we must be pragmatic regarding our ability to support" the program," Gen. David Berger...

“Here’s my biggest fear about ChatGPT,” Craig Martell said. “It has been trained to express itself in a fluent manner. It speaks fluently and authoritatively. So you believe it even when it’s wrong…...

While the US is standing fast on its removal of Turkey from the F-35 program, DoD Acquisition czar Ellen Lord says there no decision has been made yet about FMS sales.

"No matter what China’s timeline for war might be, America’s timeline for deterrence is right now," writes Dustin Walker of the American Enterprise Institute.

With three key staff additions along with developments earlier in the year, the Breaking Defense editorial team has doubled in size since the start of 2021.

“The issue is, can the department execute this strategy and really do it in time?” said Jim Mitre, director of the international security and defense policy program at the RAND Corporation. "In...

If approved by US regulators, the agreement would reunite Boeing with the Wichita-based production facilities it spun off in 2005 in a bid to lower costs.

Under a new grant, the company will demonstrate to the Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center its ability to take very high resolution images at night using a thermal infrared sensor.

The push to declassify an existing space weapon is being spearheaded by Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) allows commanders to jointly plan, coordinate and synchronize operations across air, land, sea and space assets.

In this op-ed, Masao Dahlgren discusses the launch of a forthcoming missile-tracking satellite constellation and what can be learned from it.

"There have been some really impressive results," said MDA Executive Director Laura DeSimone on recent directed energy tests.

Iraq wants 12 T-129 ATAK helicopters, six Koral electronic warfare systems, and an unspecified number of TB2 Bayraktar armed drones as part of the deal, which would tie the two countries closer.

Pilots from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings taxi F-35As on the runway in preparation for a combat power exercise Nov. 19, 2018, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. During the exercise, the wings confir...

Lockheed’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System and Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) — as well as the the Javelin anti-tank missile system it co-produces with Raytheon — are seeing...