China has hacked into American power grids and companies for decades, stealing sensitive files and intellectual property such as chip designs as it seeks to gain an edge over the United States. But a sweeping cyberattack by a group known as Salt Typhoon is China’s most ambitious yet, experts and officials have concluded after a year of investigating it.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged mutual support and enhanced cooperation during talks in Beijing after a commemoration of the end of World War II, the countries’ state media said.
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Sept. 5 changing the name of the Department of Defense to the “Department of War,” reviving a name that was abandoned during a 1947 Cabinet reorganization.
The Air Force and aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corp. have started flight tests on the service’s next-generation “doomsday plane.” Flight tests for the E-4C Survivable Airborne Operations Control, or SAOC, are being held at the Aviation Innovation and Technology Center in Dayton, Ohio, the company said in a Sept. 3 release.
Secretary of the Navy John Phelan has ordered a major reorganization focused on better managing the sea service’s acquisition of uncrewed platforms, according to a new memo.
We now have our first look at a U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike actually firing air-to-air optimized variants of the laser-guided 70mm Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS II) rocket. This is a still relatively new capability for the F-15E that was rushed into service earlier this year.
Breaking Defense’s Aaron Mehta sat down with Tom Karako, a missile defense expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and John Plumb, a former top DOD space official, to talk about what Golden Dome is and what it might be. In this first of three videos, they lay out what you need to know about this new national defense priority.
When Iran dispatched some 200 attack drones and cruise missiles toward Israel in a brute-force attack on April 13, 2024, all of Capt. Carla Nava’s training was suddenly put to the test.
Sprawled on a canvas bunk less than an arm’s length from a weapons-release switch, the pilots of the B-2 Spirit do their best to get shut eye in the confines of their billion-dollar stealth bomber’s bunk.
