U.S. President Donald Trump on May 11 said the Iran ceasefire is on “life support” after rejecting Tehran’s latest proposal, which officials said included some nuclear concessions.
An Air Force MQ-9 drone has downed aerial targets with a relatively inexpensive air-to-air missile, part of the Pentagon’s quest for more cost-effective defense against drones.
United States, Philippine, Japanese, and Canadian forces combined land, sea, and air platforms to sink two decommissioned ships off the western Northern Luzon coast during Balikatan 2026 last week, according to a Defense Department release.
Much of the work of the Defense Department’s Strategic Capabilities Office is classified, but the secretive organization’s director recently shed light on the capability areas that the SCO is focused on.
The U.S. Air Force says it does not expect the last of its huge C-5M Galaxy cargo planes to be replaced by a Next-Generation Airlift (NGAL) platform until Fiscal Year 2050. This is roughly five years later than the retirement schedule for the C-5M fleet that the service had laid out last year. NGAL is also expected to supplant the C-17A Globemaster III, but the plan is for those aircraft to keep flying through 2075.
U.S. Special Operations Command has contracted Texas startup SkyFi to test a software platform built to deliver unclassified commercial satellite imagery directly to warfighters―including a capability for commanders in the field to task a satellite to provide images in near-real time, the company announced.
The new Trump-class battleship will be powered by a nuclear reactor and is not a successor to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, the Navy revealed May 11 in its annual 30-year shipbuilding blueprint.
The Air Force has quietly assembled an “AI Action Team” to help leaders think through ethical challenges, develop literacy in the force, and identify new applications for the tech, the service’s senior enlisted leader said this month.
A nonprofit group’s offer of $150 towards the rising cost of gas for Air Force and Space Force enlisted troops proved to be so popular that it ran out of money just hours after opening for applications, according to the group.
