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Hungary has signed a deal to buy four Gripen C fighters just days before the country is expected to approve Sweden's NATO membership.
Air

Hungary Inks Deal For Gripen Fighters Ahead Of Sweden NATO Membership Vote

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 23, 2024

New details about the U.S. Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft drone program, as well as recent discussions about its progress and future, all point to its potential to reshape how the service does business and fights.
Air

Everything New We Just Learned About The Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 23, 2024

Unmanned drone variant concept of the Tesla Cybertruck
News & Features

The Case For Turning Cybertruck Into A Militarized Unmanned Ground Vehicle

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 22, 2024

The Australian government has released a new plan for the country's navy's surface fleets that calls for new classes of optionally-crewed missile-armed ships and traditional crewed general purpose frigates.
Sea

Australia To Bet Big On Heavily Armed, Optionally Crewed Warships

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 21, 2024

The US Air Force says it plans to invite foreign allies and partners to join the next increment of its Collaborative Combat Aircraft drone program and has offered details about what that cooperation might look like. The service is also looking bring US Special Operations Command into an existing tri-service agreement with the Navy and Marine Corps.
Air

Plans For Allies To Join Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program Laid Out By Air Force

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 14, 2024

Boeing Ghost Bat F-15
Air

USAF Set To Down-Select Collaborative Combat Aircraft Competitors

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 13, 2024

Fara Bell 360 Invictus and Sikorsky Defiant X
Air

Cancelling The Future Attack Recon Helicopter Was The Right Choice By The Army

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 9, 2024

Raider X cancelled
Air

Army Cancels High-Speed Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter Program

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Feb 9, 2024

Defense contractor Anduril has formally announced that it is one of five companies working on the US Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) advanced drone program.
Air

Anduril Is Helping The Air Force To Develop Its Loyal Wingman Drone

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 25, 2024

Pakistan is looking to buy FC-31 stealth fighters
News & Features

China’s FC-31 Stealth Fighter Officially Being Sought By Pakistan

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 5, 2024

Ukrainian Military Units Of Combat UAVs Keep Defense In Donetsk Oblast with FPV drones.
News & Features

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Wants A Million FPV Drones In 2024

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 20, 2023

The US Army has outliend plans to significantly expand the size of its arsenal of Coyote-based counter-drone systems in the next five years, including with the purchase of 6,700 additional interceptors.
Land

Drastic Increase In Army Coyote Drone Interceptor Purchase Plans

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 20, 2023

AQ 400 Scythe
News & Features

Ukraine’s Scythe Drone Is All About Striking Far Away As Cheaply As Possible

By Oliver Parken, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Dec 19, 2023

PrSM pictures launching in early December, 2023
Land

Army Just Received Its First Operational PrSM Ballistic Missiles

By Oliver Parken, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 9, 2023

A new draft of the annual U.S. defense policy bill for the 2024 Fiscal Year, which looks set to pass in Congress and become law, would require the Air Force and the Navy to provide new details about the expected costs and capabilities of their future Collaborative Combat Aircraft drones.
Air

Loyal Wingman Drone Cost, Capability Concerns Emerge In Defense Bill

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Dec 8, 2023

Boeing Exits Air Force’s ‘Doomsday Plane’ Competition (Updated)
Air

Boeing Exits Air Force’s ‘Doomsday Plane’ Competition (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 5, 2023

Norway and Germany have teamed up to develop a new supersonic naval strike missile.
News & Features

Supersonic Naval Cruise Missile For Norway, Germany In The Works

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 29, 2023

CCAs flying with notional NGAD manned aircraft.
Air

Signs Point To Less Range, Higher Performance For CCA Drones

By Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 28, 2023

FCAS NGF
News & Features

Belgium Joins European Next-Generation Fighter Program

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 28, 2023

A top Pentagon watchdog has raises concerns about the Navy's aggressive schedule for the MQ-25 tanker drone and the potential risks thereof.
Air

MQ-25 Stingray Tanker Delays, Risks Come Into View

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 21, 2023

Japan is seeking 400 Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise Missiles.
News & Features

Japan Approved To Buy 400 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Nov 19, 2023

Concept artwork of the NATO E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft in flight.
Air

E-7 Wedgetail Radar Jet Chosen By NATO To Replace Aging E-3

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 15, 2023

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall says the Sentinel ICBM program is "struggling" and keeping it on track will "cost money."
Nuclear

Sentinel ICBM “Struggling,” Keeping On Track Will Come At A Cost

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 14, 2023

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall has offered new details about his service's plans for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.
Air

CCA Loyal Wingmen Drones To Cost Quarter To Third Of An F-35

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 14, 2023

Lockheed Martin says it no longer plans to compete for a contract to replace a portion of the Air Force's KC-135 tanker fleet.
Air

Lockheed Bails On KC-135 Tanker Replacement Competition

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Oct 23, 2023

For the very beginning, the B-21 Raider stealth bomber program has been about much more than only the bomber itself.
Air

B-21 ‘Family Of Systems’ Details Emerge, Engine Test Runs Start

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Sep 12, 2023

Boeing says Poland has expressed an interest in buying F-15EX Eagle II fighters.
News & Features

Poland Eyeing F-15EX Buy Amid Weapons Buying Spree

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Sep 7, 2023

JAPANESE BMD DESTROYER
Sea

Japan’s Missile Defense Ships Will Now Be Multi-Role, Cruiser-Like

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 31, 2023

Replicator attritable drones
News & Features

Replicator Is DoD’s Big Play To Build Thousands Of Autonomous Weapons In Just Two Years

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Aug 28, 2023

The Marine Corps plans to buy three batteries worth of Iron Dome systems and 1,840 Tamir interceptors to go with them.
Sea

USMC Buying Nearly 2,000 Tamir Interceptors For Its Iron Dome Systems

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 25, 2023

Indonesia Emerges As First F-15EX Export Customer
News & Features

Indonesia Emerges As First F-15EX Export Customer

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 22, 2023

Drone That Mimics Enemy Stealth Fighters Ordered By DoD
Air

Drone That Mimics Enemy Stealth Fighters Ordered By DoD

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 17, 2023

The US Air Force has selected JetZero to design and build a demonstrator aircraft with a blended wing body, or BWB, configuration that could serve as the basis for future aerial refueling tankers and cargo planes.
Air

Blended Wing Body Demonstrator Jet Contract Awarded By Air Force (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 16, 2023

NGAD Multi-purpose array
Air

How NGAD Will Sense, Communicate, And Jam Could Be Revolutionary

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Aug 9, 2023

Northrop Grumman says its "on track" for a B-21 Raider stealth bomber first flight in 2023 after the initial example was successfully "powered on."
Air

B-21 Raider’s First Flight Still Set For 2023 After ‘Power On’ Milestone

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 28, 2023

Nortrhop Grumman has dropped out of the running to be the prime contractor to design and build the US Air Force's future sixth-generation NGAD stealth combat jet.
Air

Northrop Grumman Bails On Next Generation Fighter Competition

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 27, 2023

RAF E-7 Wedgetail
Air

UK’s E-7 Radar Jet Deal Slammed As “Absolute Folly” In New Report

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jul 17, 2023

Rafale M
News & Features

India Clears The Way For Naval Rafale Fighter Purchase

By Thomas Newdick and Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jul 14, 2023

NGAD fighter lockheed martin
Air

NGAD Fighter’s Performance: What Can We Expect?

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jul 12, 2023

Turkey F-16 fighter
News & Features

Turkey Finally Looks Set To Get New F-16s

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jul 11, 2023

NGAD demonstrator
Air

Three Demonstrators Now Part Of Next Gen Air Dominance Fighter Program: Report

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jun 23, 2023

Digital Engineering Kendall
Air

Air Force Boss Gives Reality Check On “Over-Hyped” Digital Engineering Revolution

By Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Updated on May 25, 2023

Avoiding F-35 “Acquisition Malpractice” Aim Of Next Gen Air Dominance Fighter
Air

Avoiding F-35 “Acquisition Malpractice” Aim Of Next Gen Air Dominance Fighter

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 23, 2023

Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter Competition Has Begun
Air

Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter Competition Has Begun

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 18, 2023

Collins Class submarines
News & Features

Australia Getting U.S. Containerized Submarine-Tracking Sonar System

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on May 5, 2023

ATAK-2 helicopter starts engine for the first time in Ankara
News & Features

Our First Clear Look At Turkey’s New T929 Heavy Attack Helicopter

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Apr 26, 2023

Air Force Announces F-15EXs Are Headed To Two New Bases
Air

Air Force Announces F-15EXs Are Headed To Two New Bases

By Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 19, 2023

F-35A Fort Worth
News & Features

Romania Unveils Plan To Buy F-35s

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Apr 11, 2023

Stunner Missile David's Sling
News & Features

Finland Buys Israel’s David’s Sling For Huge Air Defense Upgrade

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Apr 5, 2023

Tomahawk Netherlands
News & Features

The Netherlands Is Going To Bet Big On Long-Range Weapons

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Apr 4, 2023

AGM-183 ARRW
Air

Air Force Pulls Plug On Much-Hyped Hypersonic Missile

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 31, 2023

Navy Air-Launched Hypersonic Anti-Ship Cruise Missile Makes Big Move Forward
Sea

Navy Air-Launched Hypersonic Anti-Ship Cruise Missile Makes Big Move Forward

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 29, 2023

F/A-XX Future Navy Fighter’s Big Funding Points To Prototypes
Sea

F/A-XX Future Navy Fighter’s Big Funding Points To Prototypes

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Mar 27, 2023

F-15EX Conformal Tank Funds Sought, Fleet Size Questions Reemerge (Updated)
Air

F-15EX Conformal Tank Funds Sought, Fleet Size Questions Reemerge (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 20, 2023

F-15E Strike Eagle Fleet To Be Slashed By Over Half: Report
Air

F-15E Strike Eagle Fleet To Be Slashed By Over Half: Report

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 16, 2023

Australia will buy up to five Virginia class submarines from the US.
News & Features

Australia Will Buy At Least Three U.S.-Made Virginia Class Submarines (Updated)

By Howard Altman

Posted on Mar 13, 2023

F-15EX 104 inventory
Air

F-15EX Eagle II Total Buy Increases From 80 To 104 In New USAF Budget

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 13, 2023

F-15EX
Air

Buying Just 80 F-15EXs Makes No Sense

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Mar 9, 2023

NGAD
Air

200 NGAD Fighters, 1,000 Advanced Drones In USAF’s Future Plans

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Mar 7, 2023

MQ-9 Special Operations Sky Guardian
Air

USAF Special Ops Buys MQ-9B SkyGuardians To Test Air-Launched Drone Concepts

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Mar 7, 2023

E-7 WEDGETAIL
Air

Air Force Orders First E-7 Jets To Replace Aging E-3 Sentry

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 1, 2023

F-35B Singapore
News & Features

Singapore Commits To F-35B Stealth Jets With Follow-On Order

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Feb 24, 2023

Air Force Says It Needs More Survivable Tankers By 2040
Air

Air Force Says It Needs More Survivable Tankers By 2040

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 1, 2023

F-35 Canada
News & Features

Canada Closes Deal For 88 F-35s To Finally Replace Its Aging CF-18s

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Jan 10, 2023