House Appropriators Offer Air, Space Forces $261 Billion in 2026
Absent a full defense budget request from the White House nearly six months into President Donald Trump’s tenure, lawmakers are taking matters into their own hands.
US Bombers Step Up Combat Operations as Demand Grows
U.S. bomber units are stepping up the pace of combat operations and overseas training as demand for their capabilities grows around the globe, the head of Air Force Global Strike Command said June 5.
‘Kill More, Die Less’: New Unit Explores How to Deploy Wingman Drones
The Air Force on June 5 stood up a new unit to figure out how to use drone wingmen, known as "Collaborative Combat Aircraft," in future air wars.
JSTARS Joins the Fight
Air Combat Command officially receives its first E-8 Joint STARS aircraft. USAF operated E-8 development aircraft during Operations Desert Storm and Joint Endeavor.
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EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon’s RDT&E Budget Revealed—Which Next-Gen Systems Get a Cash Influx in FY26?
Breaking Defense
Breaking Defense obtained a copy of the Defense Department's FY26 budget request for RDT&E Programs. Here's what you should know.
Trump Deploys Hundreds of Marines to LA in Growing Military Response to Immigration Raid Protests
Military.com
A battalion of active-duty Marines—around 700 troops—based out of Twentynine Palms, California, received deployment orders to Los Angeles on June 9 after President Donald Trump's commandeering and deployment of the state's National Guard troops to the city over the weekend, defense officials confirmed to Military.com.
When Have Presidents Called in the National Guard to Quell Domestic Unrest?
The Washington Post
The National Guard was also called during the 1992 L.A. riots and the unrest that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968. Trump’s order was unlike any other.
DC Prepares for Trump’s Military Parade with 18 Miles of Fencing and 175 Magnetometers
The Associated Press
As the nation’s capital cleans up from the culmination of World Pride this past weekend, focus now shifts to a very different massive event—June 14’s military parade to honor the 250th birthday of the Army and the 79th birthday of President Donald Trump.
F-22s Fly Alongside MiGs To Commemorate Founder Of America’s Secret Soviet Fighter Squadron
The War Zone
Col. Gail Peck gave birth to the Red Eagles who flew Soviet fighters against American ones in training in the late 1970s and 1980s.