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US poised to accept new F-35s without radars, sources say

(Michael Marrow, Valerie Insinna and Diana Stancy - Breaking Defense) Starting this fall, all new F-35 Joint Strike Fighters delivered to the American military...

Israel’s Elbit reveals military contract to put high-powered laser weapon on aircraft

(Seth J. Frantzman - Breaking Defense) Israel’s Elbit Systems recently revealed it has received a contract from the Israeli Ministry of Defense to put...

India seeking to join European sixth-generation fighter program: Reports

(Mike Yeo - Breaking Defense) India has expressed an interest in joining one of the two ongoing European sixth-generation fighter programs, according to local...

What is the Pentagon’s ‘Space Data Network,’ and why does it matter for Golden Dome?

(Theresa Hitchens - Breaking Defense) The Space Force’s effort to develop a complex Space Data Network (SDN) of military and commercial satellites is beginning...

Air Force counter-drone lab requests ideas to track and kill small UAS

(Patrick Dawson - Breaking Defense) The Air Force is on the hunt for ways to defend against small drones, posting a pair of Requests...

US intelligence elevates AI as a top global threat in new report

(Patrick Tucker - Defense One) Artificial intelligence is a major subtheme of the U.S. intelligence community’s annual report on threats—one increasingly described in strategic,...

Pentagon leaders called Claude AI ‘woke.’ Tests show otherwise

(Valerie Wirtschafter - Defense One) When Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic a deadline to renegotiate its contract with the Pentagon to include...

A-10s are striking Iranian boats. Some say it’s a ‘wake-up call’ to stop the Warthog’s retirement

(Thomas Novelly - Defense One) A-10 Thunderbolt IIs are strafing boats in the Straits of Hormuz as part of President Trump’s war on Iran,...

‘It takes money to kill bad guys,’ Hegseth says of $200B Iran war request to Congress

(Meghann Myers - Defense One) The Pentagon’s $200 billion request to cover the costs of the Iran war will reimburse what the Defense Department...

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