President Trump on Monday urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet face to face at a peace conference he would convene in a long shot bid to end the 3 1/2-year-long war in Ukraine.
An Air Force pilot with thousands of flight hours and experience leading the fight against extremism recently assumed the top job at the Germany-headquartered U.S. Africa Command. Gen. Dagvin Anderson relieved Marine Corps Gen. Michael Langley of command during a ceremony Friday at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart.
Kratos has been developing an unusual-looking air combat drone capable of carrying munitions internally and externally, as well as various sensors, and that has a built-in buddy refueling capability. Dubbed Clone Ranger, the uncrewed aircraft is designed to be highly modular, as well as relatively low-cost and readily producible.
As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides television service to Ukraine. Instead of normal programing, Ukrainian viewers saw parade footage beamed in from Moscow: waves of tanks, soldiers, and weaponry. The message was meant to intimidate and was an illustration that 21st-century war is waged not just on land, sea and air but also in cyberspace and the reaches of outer space.
The Defense Health Agency is granting voluntary buyouts to certain employees on a job-by-job basis as the Trump administration’s large-scale government workforce reduction campaign plows on.
In the months since the U.S. government embarked on an unprecedented downsizing of the federal workforce spearheaded by the Department of Government Efficiency, tens of thousands of government employees have been shown the door, including civilians in the digital trenches at the Pentagon’s cyber agencies.
Military use of drones for air, land, and sea is booming—and so is the need to power them. So the Pentagon is working on a strategy for how it sources and buys batteries—including the critical minerals they require—which officials expect to release in 2026.
More imagery of Chinese ‘loyal wingman’ type drones, or at least mockups thereof, that are set to make their official debut at a major upcoming military parade has emerged. The uncrewed aircraft are just one part of a massive reveal of new capabilities around this event, some possibly aspirational, but some very real.
