Tricky E-7 adaptations complicate U.S. Air Force, Boeing negotiations
DENVER, Colo. — The Air Force’s desired adaptations to Boeing’s E-7A battlefield management aircraft are proving to be harder than expected and complicating price negotiations, top service officials...
View ArticleUSAF plans stealthy tankers for ‘extreme threat areas’
AURORA, Colorado—Tomorrow’s aerial tanking fleet will include some stealthy aircraft with “exquisite capabilities” that can fly into “extreme threat areas,” as well as a larger group of more...
View ArticleCanadian NATO troops in Latvia get air-defense, anti-tank upgrades
VICTORIA, British Columbia — Canada is spending $316 million Canadian dollars ($234 million) for new air-defense and counter-drone systems as well as anti-tank missiles for its troops in Latvia as...
View ArticleNavy to establish second surface drone unit this spring
SAN DIEGO — The Navy plans to establish a second unmanned surface drone squadron in May, the head of U.S. Pacific Fleet told the West 2024 conference here Wednesday. “This is not a contractor-owned,...
View ArticleOur industrial strength is a deterrent
The U.S. faces unprecedented threats to its national security. Our adversaries use coercive economic and trade practices to build their military power to levels not seen since World War II, while...
View ArticleAustralian defense industry concern grows over export controls
The U.S. is gearing up to give Australia and Britain a broad exemption to Washington’s export control regime in hopes of enabling a key pillar of the AUKUS agreement focused on facilitating joint...
View ArticleNavy leaders want more code-loving sailors at sea
SAN DIEGO—Sailors who tinker with data sets at sea: know that Capt. Bryan Braswell sees you—and wants to formally fold data science into information warfare training. Sailors often develop these...
View ArticlePentagon’s Replicator effort will focus on software next
Six months into its effort to field thousands of attritable, autonomous systems, the Pentagon is planning the second iteration of the Replicator program — and this time, software will be the focus....
View ArticleLockheed vows steady F-35 production amid demand shifts
AURORA, Colorado—Lockheed Martin intends to keep building F-35 stealth fighters at a steady pace, even as global demand rises and amid reports that the U.S. might reduce next year’s order. There is no...
View ArticlePatria teams up with local firms for Germany’s new armored troop ride
PARIS — Finland’s Patria is teaming up with two German companies, including a unit of KNDS, to offer a local variant of its six-wheeled armored personnel carrier to replace Germany’s fleet of Fuchs...
View ArticleUkraine’s Zelenskyy signs security agreements with Germany, France
BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a bilateral security agreement with Germany and planned to sign another with France on Feb. 16, securing a strong signal of long-term...
View ArticleAs adversaries harness AI, tech firms peer through chat logs to catch them
Asking large language models for information on intelligence agencies and using them to help fix scripting errors and develop code to hack into systems. Translating technical jargon and querying about...
View ArticleGreek Army weighs options for breathing new life into Leopard 1 tanks
MILAN — German arms manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann has partnered with local Greek supplier EODH and Spanish electronics firm Duma to propose an upgrade package for the modernization of the...
View ArticleCan Biden’s new arms policy lead to real accountability for Israel?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late last week ordered his war cabinet to draft plans for a ground invasion of Rafah, one of the most densely populated places on the planet. Four months into...
View ArticleToday’s D Brief: Russia’s staggering losses; SecNav blasts industry; USAF...
“At least 315,000 Russian forces have either been killed or wounded” during the ongoing war in Ukraine, a senior U.S. defense official told reporters Friday morning. That’s the same estimate leaked to...
View ArticleWest 2024: A roundup of news and military tech in San Diego
The USS Chosin slips through the San Diego Bay, near the bridge to Coronado, on Feb. 15, 2024, following a modernization period. (Colin Demarest/C4ISRNET) SAN DIEGO — Some of the world’s largest...
View ArticleUkraine war has cost Russia up to $211 billion, Pentagon says
Almost two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Pentagon shared new figures on the toll that war has had on Moscow. Military operations in Ukraine have cost Russia up to $211...
View ArticleAir Force weighs future of Osprey as months-long grounding continues
The Air Force has launched a “comprehensive review” of its CV-22 force after a deadly crash killed eight airmen and the Pentagon grounded its entire fleet of Ospreys. The review will determine...
View ArticleNavy secretary blasts defense industry’s stock buybacks
SAN DIEGO—Defense contractors are too focused on stock buybacks and other gimmicks that line their pockets and not enough on investing in shipyards or shoring up the defense industrial base, Navy...
View ArticleFirst Ukrainian F-16 pilots will complete training as soon as May
AURORA, Colorado—Ukrainian pilots will start graduating from F-16 fighter jet training in May, the Air National Guard estimates. The first four pilots are “pretty close” to the end of their training,...
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