The U.S. military said May 25 that it carried out “self-defense” strikes in southern Iran, including on missile launch sites and boats placing mines, even as President Donald Trump said on social media that negotiations were “proceeding nicely.”
As several aircraft face retirement in the coming years, Armed Services Committee member Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) sat down with Breaking Defense Senior Reporter Valerie Insinna to discuss pending legislation and possible changes ahead for military aviation personnel and the aviation industrial base.
Russia pummeled Ukraine’s capital with a massive wave of missile and drone attacks early May 24 that sparked fires, and hours of explosions shook buildings. At least two people were killed and at least 77 injured, according to Kyiv mayor Vitaliy Klitschko, who said there was damage in “every district of the city.”
Operation Epic Fury has yielded important lessons learned, especially when it comes to the increasing importance of electronic warfare, the scale and scope of America’s munitions inventories, and the need for radically enhanced base protection measures. Heather “Lucky” Penney discusses these themes with Lt. Gen. David “Kooler” Krumm, USAF (Ret.) of BAE Systems. What are important operational considerations? How does the industrial base help deliver solutions to harness this recent combat experience?
Having the “right stuff at the right place at the right time” in the Pacific theater is “a little bit of a maths problem,” says U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s strategy director for logistics and engineering.
The U.S. Marine Corps is testing new ways to combine low-cost drones with traditional aircraft, having recently paired a UH-1Y Venom helicopter with an attack drone in a recent Southern California exercise.
The Defense Department is requesting close to $30 billion in fiscal 2027 to purchase and enable next-generation AI supercomputers and modernize the military’s computing infrastructure to power them.
Armed drones, loitering munitions, and launched effects were all center stage at this year’s SOF Week expo, with companies like Teledyne FLIR and AV showing off their latest systems.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is casting new doubt on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s relevance to the United States after key allies recoiled from backing Washington’s “Operation Epic Fury.”
This year's Royal International Air Tattoo has been cancelled due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, organisers have confirmed. The air show at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire has been going for more than 50 years, and can attract an attendance of more than 170,000 people. Organisers said cancelling the event was “not an easy decision” and came after discussions with the United States Air Force regarding uncertainty over the access to RAF Fairford, given the ongoing situation in Iran.
SpaceX completed a full suborbital flight of the latest version of its Starship-Super Heavy launch vehicle on May 22, achieving several key milestones for "Version 3" even as it lost its first-stage booster shortly into the flight.
Turns out, Ukraine has got cards. Just last fall, Russia was inexorably advancing on the battlefield, money was running out, and President Trump was pressing a peace deal on terms that favored Moscow. Then, Trump’s war against Iran reshuffled the world. Drone warfare—the kind in which Ukraine has garnered four years of unmatched experience—went global with Iranian attacks throughout the Middle East. Instead of being seen as a problem to be solved, Ukraine became a sought-after solution—for Gulf monarchies, for European neighbors, and increasingly for the U.S. military.
Gerald Eddie Brown soared the skies for more than three decades, flying jet fighters for the U.S. Air Force and traveling the world as a commercial aviator. ... Then, after a faceoff with a UPS captain, he lost his pilot license. In chat messages presented by federal prosecutors, the Gulf War veteran expressed a yearning to fly again, watching fighter-pilot videos on YouTube and “Top Gun: Maverick.”
The skies over South Florida roared with American military might on Memorial Day weekend as the Air Force Global Strike Command executed a historic flyover May 23 at the Hyundai Air & Sea Show in Miami Beach. Dubbed the "Arsenal of Freedom," the unprecedented spectacle featured an eight-ship formation of dissimilar bombers and fighters soaring over a civilian air show.
