The number of major accidents involving military aircraft spiked in 2024, internal Pentagon figures show, and a series of high-profile aviation mishaps with deaths and the loss of aircraft in 2025 suggest the disturbing trend may be continuing.
The U.S. government said this week it has approved Ukraine’s potential purchase of equipment to upgrade its Patriot air defense launchers to the latest configuration.
Among the changes that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laid out in his Nov. 7 address to industry is the idea that the Pentagon will be more willing to buy a system that provides “the 85 percent solution” now and the full solution later. On Nov. 18, a panel of industry executives talked at a Defense One event about what that might take and what it might mean.
The Utah Air National Guard demonstrated new capabilities that expand the KC-135 aerial refueling tanker’s ability to also act as an airborne communications and data-sharing node during major exercises in the Pacific earlier this year.
The recent opening of a medical care facility at Chabelley Airfield in Djibouti is the latest sign the U.S. military is putting down permanent roots at the remote site, which plays a role in projecting American airpower across east Africa.
The U.S. military could be poised to launch the largest combat operations in Latin America since the invasion of Panama nearly 36 years ago. Since September, the U.S. has launched 21 strikes against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing a total of 82 people, a Pentagon official told Task & Purpose.
At a tiny airport in the Australian countryside last month, a small plane took off carrying a device that could transform how U.S. drones, aircraft, and ships navigate across future battlefields.
A plan to end the war in Ukraine, negotiated between the Trump administration and Russia, would require Kyiv to surrender territory, significantly reduce the size of its army and relinquish some types of weaponry, according to officials familiar with the proposal.
Stealth fighters have stolen the spotlight at the Middle East’s largest defense gathering, as a prospective F-35 sale to Saudi Arabia becomes the talk of the town and Russia tries to play up its Su-57 Sukhoi.
