The U.S. and U.K. have led international condemnation of Iran after Andy Burnham said it was “highly likely” Tehran was behind the RAF Fairford incident. The prime minister said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps “almost certainly” directed a suspected terror plot targeting the air base in Gloucestershire, which was used by U.S. bombers.
SpaceX successfully launched the Tranche 1 mission early on Oct. 10. The Falcon 9 rocket carried the Space Development Agency's fourth Tranche 1 data transport mission.
The Pentagon acknowledged late on Oct. 9 that the number of troops who have died in the Middle East during its operations against Iran is higher than previously reported, and updated the official count to include two more noncombat deaths.
The U.S. military is preparing options to restart major combat operations against Iran, even as President Trump continues to show ambivalence about restarting the war, according to American officials.
Among a cadre of Wall Street executives brought into the Pentagon during President Donald Trump’s second term, George K. Kollitides II has emerged as a powerbroker with a broad mandate to improve procurement of weapons and critical minerals.
The Pentagon aims to change its public, online portal that provides data and statistics on U.S. military casualties, DefenseScoop has learned. The Defense Casualty Analysis System currently includes information about personnel who have been classified as deceased, wounded, ill, or injured during their service.
An unidentified projectile struck Saudi Arabia’s main international airport Oct. 11, injuring people a day after a deadly missile attack at the same site raised questions about whether the United States would join another conflict in the region.
U.S. Central Command on Saturday said its forces disabled a ship that attempted to bypass the U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM released a statement saying that the commercial cargo vessel “ignored repeated warnings” before forces disabled it in the Gulf of Oman.
After scrubbing a large-scale, high-altitude balloon demonstration in the Indo-Pacific last year to send the assets over to the Middle East, the U.S. Army has gleaned a series of observations for future use, according to a senior service official.
The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin are in discussions over a mega-deal for the company’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that could span up to a decade and include both production and maintenance for the stealth jet, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
Soon after a July cabinet meeting ended at Camp David, the rustic presidential retreat in Maryland, President Trump turned to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with an order: “Get Feinberg on the phone.” The Feinberg in question is Hegseth’s deputy, Steve Feinberg, a private-equity billionaire who grew up in the Bronx. Trump asked Feinberg why he was still seeing media reports that the U.S. had paused attacks on Iran amid concerns about dwindling weapons stocks, given Feinberg’s job was to improve those stocks.
The Pentagon inked a five-year contract with Raytheon for the steady production of ballistic missile interceptors that use force to destroy targets, rather than explosives. The $6.3 billion contract, which provides two additional option years, will see Raytheon provide the Defense Department with a continuous supply of Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptors manufactured primarily in Tucson, Ariz., and Huntsville, Ala.
Lockheed Martin on Oct. 9 unveiled PAC-3 Edge, a missile interceptor designed to defend against hypersonic and advanced missile threats, as the U.S. military looks to strengthen its capabilities to counter emerging aerial threats.
Airbus and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions have completed the first flight of the U740 Valkyrie uncrewed combat aircraft, a Europeanized version of the XQ-58A Valkyrie, advancing their bid to deliver a combat-ready system to Germany by 2029. The flight comes as the German Air Force, or Luftwaffe, moves toward acquiring a new class of jet-powered combat drones, in what could become a major shift in the country’s traditionally limited armed-uncrewed-aircraft capabilities.
The Pentagon, two days before the fiscal year ended, applied $200 million in reprogramming funding for the Bell MV-75 program as Textron was forced to spend internal funds to keep the U.S. Army tiltrotor program moving.
Russia has attacked a power plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv despite President Donald Trump’s statement earlier on Oct. 11 that both sides had agreed to an "energy ceasefire," according to Ukrainian officials.
President Trump called on Ukraine to replace Volodymyr Zelensky as its leader and piled pressure on Kyiv to stop airstrikes against Russian oil refineries, a day after the U.S. leader announced a deal to boost Moscow’s diesel exports.
North Korea on Oct. 12 fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, South Korea’s military said, adding to a recent streak of weapons demonstrations that has heightened tensions during a prolonged freeze in diplomacy.
After a bout of devastating storm damage—followed by a Hail Mary sale for just $1—Tillamook’s massive World War II-era blimp hangar will reopen after all. As will the Tillamook Air Museum, which is housed inside the historic hangar.
