Tag: Defense

House takes up progressive-led defense spending cuts this week (Joe Gould, Defense News)

House progressives will have a few chances to hold down the defense budget this week, but it’s going to be an uphill fight. The House...

Turkish firm Kale delivers homemade turbojet engine for missiles (Tayfun Ozberk, Defense News)

Turkish engine-developer Kale R&D has completed the first deliveries of the KTJ-3200, the country’s first indigenous turbojet engine, which will power the homemade standoff missile and...

$1B Iron Dome fund stripped from new continuing resolution (Joe Gould, Defense News)

A proposal to send Israel $1 billion for the Iron Dome air defense system has been cut out of a stopgap government funding bill, meant to...

Air Force cyber defense taking aim at core weapon systems (Mark Pomerleau, Defense News)

The Air Force’s information warfare entity is focusing more attention toward defending weapon systems from adversary probes. Enemies have begun to be more active below...

Amidst Zapad 2021 Exercise, Russia and Belarus Establish Joint Air-Defense and Air Force Training and Combat Center (Arseny Sivitsky, The Jamestown Foundation)

While Russia and Belarus made final preparations to kick off their quadrennial joint strategic-operational exercise Zapad 2021, the two countries’ air-defense and air force...

US Air Force Developing Combat Tanker-Airlifter that Can Land on Water (Tara Copp, Defense One)

A rendering of a twin float amphibious modification to an MC-130J Commando II. COURTESY PHOTO The U.S. Air Force is working on detachable pontoons and other...

AUKUS and the CPTPP: It’s all about China (Ian Hill, The Interpreter)

China’s application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) just hours after announcement of the new tripartite AUKUS (Australia, United...

US 5th Fleet kicks off first-ever Central Partnership Station exercise in Lebanon that pairs training, humanitarian aid (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

The Military Sealift Command Expeditionary Fast Transport ship, USNS Choctaw County (T-EPF 2), arrives in Souda Bay for a scheduled port visit Dec. 30,...

Northrop Grumman now has five B-21 stealth bombers in production (Valerie Insinna, Defense News)

Artist rendering of a B-21 Raider concept in a hangar at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., one of the future bases to host the...

Air Force testing how to do intelligence in disconnected environments (Mark Pomerleau, Defense News)

16th Air Force is maturing its ability to converge intelligence, cyber and information warfare capabilities, but it needs to improve its speed. (U.S. Air...

AFSOC plans to demo amphibious MC-130J by end of next year, commander says (Leila Barghouty, Defense News)

A rendering of a twin float amphibious modification to an MC-130J Commando II is shown here. Air Force Special Operations Command and private sector...

SecAF to Congress: Let us retire aircraft or we can’t beat China (Valerie Insinna, Defense News)

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall walks with Air Marshal Melvin Hupfeld chief of the Australian air force, before a meeting at the...

Kaman unveils medium-lift UAV to resupply distributed Marine Corps forces (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

Kaman's KARGO UAV is a quadcopter designed to carry hundreds of pounds of supplies to Marines in expeditionary bases away from logistics hubs, either...

Ultimi test della US Air National Guard della contromisura BriteCloud di Leonardo (Analisi Difesa)

Il BriteCloud 218 di Leonardo si appresta a effettuare una campagna di prove integrato sugli F-16 dell’US Air National Guard (ANG). Si tratta della fase finale del programma...

Six questions with US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall (Rachel S. Cohen, Defense News)

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall speaks with Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, left, Air Force Chief of Staff...

Australia well placed to turbocharge its strategic tech capability (Fergus Hanson, Danielle Cave, ASPI)

Last week’s surprise AUKUS announcement by the United States, Britain and Australia has created a frenzy of focus on nuclear-powered submarines, but the bigger...