Ukrainian troops have made a tactical retreat from three more villages as Russian forces press forward across the eastern front line and take advantage of Kyiv’s exhausted military, which is desperately awaiting the arrival of new U.S. assistance.
Hamas’s military wing said on Monday that it had launched a salvo of rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel, an apparent attempt by the group to signal that it is still capable of striking within Israel’s borders even as it studies the latest proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza.
Inside a hangar tucked away in western Ukraine, dozens of workers in protective clothing mold fiberglass mesh and assemble the pieces into potent weapons: long-range drones. With a range of up to 500 miles, the drones made here are designed to meet surging demand as Ukraine ramps up a campaign of strikes deep inside Russian territory in the third year of the war.
The Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), a company well known for their extensive modification work of existing aircraft, especially for military applications, has won the $13 billion contract to replace the Air Force's four aging E-4B "Nightwatch" National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC) jets. These nuclear-hardened aircraft were procured mainly in the 1970s and are based on the almost totally out-of-service 747-200 aircraft. Now SNC has released its first concept images of the E-4B's successor, and there are some notable features worth discussing.
A new digital engineering accelerator could streamline how the Pentagon and its contractors develop new weapons, reducing the time it takes to get to a usable prototype by enabling faster, more accurate modeling and simulation.
The decision by the Chinese military to transform its Strategic Support Force and launch a new military organization in its wake caught many observers by surprise. In this new analysis, longtime Chinese military expert Dean Cheng lays out what might be behind the change.
U.S. Cyber Command, through the Defense Innovation Unit, has begun the process to standardize the gear that defensive cyber teams use to perform their missions. That effort will now also combine the equipment cyber protection teams use with the kit for hunt-forward operations performed by the Cyber National Mission Force, CYBERCOM’s elite unit tasked with defending the nation against significant digital threats.
Metal shavings in contaminated fuel, incorrectly assembled parts, and a plastic scraper protruding from a wing fold were among the faults discovered in five new F-35C Joint Strike Fighters delivered to a U.S. Marine Corps fighter squadron in California last year, according to a memo obtained by Defense News.
In an April 11 Economist article, a Peking University senior researcher predicted that Russia will ultimately suffer complete defeat in its war with Ukraine. Calling Russia’s failure “inevitable,” he projected Moscow’s forces “will be forced to withdraw from all occupied Ukrainian territories, including Crimea.” In many ways, the comments from Professor Feng Yujun are anodyne, in line with what researchers from any NATO nation’s think tank might come up with. But the sourcing has raised eyebrows among China watchers, as Peking University’s School of International Studies has historically served as an unofficial channel bridging the gap between official public policy and the unspoken opinions of those in the background who seek to change that present-day policy.
No civilians were killed as a result of U.S. military operations in 2022, the Pentagon said in an April 25 report. But a federal watchdog cautions the military has more work to do to ensure that pattern continues. The Defense Department in 2022 also developed a plan to ensure it prevents further civilian casualties after critics highlighted flaws in how the department considers potential harm to the communities surrounding its daily missions.
F-16 Fighting Falcon jets from Aviano Air Base’s 510th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron have deployed to the Middle East, as Iranian-backed militants continue to target U.S. allies and commercial vessels. The 510th arrived last week and is replacing the District of Columbia Air National Guard’s 121st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, which had been deployed to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility for several months under 9th Air Force.
Big plans are in the works for commissary shoppers, as officials want to entice more eligible shoppers to take advantage of the benefits of military grocery stores. “Half of our customers are choosing not to shop, even though we saved [customers] 25.5 percent last year, and we’re at 25 percent this year” compared to civilian grocery stores, Defense Commissary Agency Director John Hall said at a recent meeting of the American Logistics Association.
