Air Force Chief Gen. David Allvin’s abrupt retirement wasn’t driven by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, but by growing frustration with the service’s priorities, according to multiple people familiar with the decision.
Russia launched a rare drone and missile attack on western Ukraine overnight, officials said Aug. 21, striking targets including an American-owned electronics plant and injecting further uncertainty into the U.S.-led efforts to end the 3-year-old war.
National Guard officials have yet to give up hope for a last-minute intervention by President Donald Trump to reverse the Department of the Air Force’s plan to begin transferring Air National Guard members with space specialties to the Space Force as full-time Guardians on Oct. 1.
The Pentagon has been talking about rapidly scaling up drone forces for years—efforts that so far have produced interesting new prototypes and lively demonstrations. But while the services conduct experiments using small numbers of drones, there has not been a clear sense of how the United States would conduct sustained drone warfare, or how closely it would resemble what is happening today in Ukraine.
The Army is designing a new universal electronic warfare capability to enable rapid updates to equipment on any platform. The Modular Mission Payload is a concept for a standardized kit that can be integrated into platforms and allow almost any EW capability to be loaded on.
U.S. and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops are flocking to the European Arctic, where international tensions are simmering. Militaries haven’t clashed in the high north in generations, and defense planners are puzzling through what war there would look like. It is ugly.
U.S. troops killed a suspected senior member of the Islamic State group, or ISIS, during an Aug. 19 raid in northern Syria, defense officials have announced. U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, confirmed the operation on Aug. 21 after media outlets reported about the raid earlier in the week.
SNC has joined the competition to replace the U.S. Navy’s T-45 Goshawk trainer and asserts that its clean-sheet design can handle the stress of carrier-representative landings the service has had to discontinue.
The Air Force and Space Force intend to redefine how Americans celebrate the men and women who serve. The inspiration came from sports. The services held a “National Signing Day” ceremony, swearing in 40 members of the Delayed Entry Program on Aug. 15 at the Rayburn Foyer of the U.S. Capitol.
