The U.S. military is dispatching roughly 9,000 troops aboard a group of ships to the Middle East, a U.S. official said Oct. 1. The bolstering of the American military presence comes as President Donald Trump warned anew that new strikes against Iran could be on the horizon.
The Pentagon has obligated about $142 billion of the reconciliation funding allotted to it in last year’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” leaving about 7 percent of the total pot susceptible to across-the-board spending cuts, a source familiar with the matter told Breaking Defense.
A dual U.K.-Iranian national has become the sixth suspect to be arrested over an alleged terror plot near RAF Fairford. The 25-year-old was arrested on the afternoon of Oct. 1 in Westminster, central London, on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
Our knowledge of the frequencies and waveform characteristics across the Electromagnetic Spectrum and our ability to manipulate them with hardware and software have grown tremendously. We harness our knowledge and capabilities continuously for tracking, intelligence, communication, jamming, radar, and many other applications. Unfortunately, so do our adversaries.
The federal government rang in a new fiscal year on Oct. 1, and, as has been the norm for years, the government will now be operating under a continuing resolution. And if there’s one thing military leaders like to remind everyone about, at every opportunity, it’s that a CR means the Pentagon cannot begin funding new programs, also known as “new starts,” at a time when the department is pursuing novel technologies.
Defense-focused senators are giving a cool reception to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s proposal to cut by 20 percent the number of the nation’s admirals and generals. Several lawmakers said they had not seen the rationale for Hegseth’s argument, while others clearly wanted to talk about other things.
Ukraine said Oct. 1 that it had launched a ballistic missile at a Russian target for the first time in combat, introducing a hard-to-stop weapon that Moscow already uses regularly to deadly effect.
The nation that can move information faster, more securely, and more reliably will hold a critical advantage in future conflict. The Mitchell Institute's Explorer Chair Gen. Kevin P. Chilton, USAF (Ret.), General Atomics’ Brent Marquand, and Mitchell Institute's Senior Resident Fellow Jennifer Reeves discuss the technologies, architectures, and decisions shaping the future of military space communications.
The U.S. Air Force has ordered four more MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters, the first under full-rate production, Boeing said Oct. 1, just weeks after the service declared the aircraft ready for its nuclear missile security mission.
The U.S. government set off conventional explosives inside a tunnel deep in the Nevada desert this week in a test designed to replicate a so-called “decoupled” nuclear detonation. Data collected is now being used to help improve methods for detecting this kind of nuclear testing. Just earlier this year, American authorities accused China of using decoupling to conceal new nuclear tests despite the country’s stated moratorium on such activities.
A Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18F Super Hornet has been photographed carrying an inert AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile during a major U.S. Navy test event in California. The development comes weeks after Australia announced that it would buy the new missile, with its Super Hornets being the first RAAF aircraft to receive it.
The cost of staying at Yokota Air Base’s Kanto Lodge nearly doubled this week as new Air Force lodging rates took effect worldwide.
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te told a forum in late September he was seeking “resilience through unity” with a new alliance that would let world officials and nongovernmental groups prepare together in case of disaster. For Taiwan, that could mean an attack or blockade by the militarily more powerful China.
Celebrity chef Robert Irvine said he wants to get healthy “grab-and-go” food options to bomber pilots and crews working on the flight line. “In most bases, but specifically Barksdale [Air Force Base] on the flight line where these maintainers and operators work, there’s nothing to eat,” Irvine told Task & Purpose on the sidelines of the Military Influencer Conference in Tampa, Fla., last week. “There’s nowhere for them to go because it takes a while to get to somewhere to eat.”
