As the fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran continues to teeter, the man in charge of leading America’s military operations has sent a direct message to the forces under his command: “protecting civilian life” is paramount and a key part of their job.
Lawmakers want to see if the Air Force’s venerable A-10 Thunderbolt IIs can be souped up with artificial intelligence, electronic warfare gear, or better comms to keep it in the fight.
The Pentagon’s counter-drone task force tested a defensive system near the southern border last month that officials said is capable of long-range targeting and 24/7 automated sensing against unmanned aerial threats, approving it for use across the military.
German defense leaders will go back to the drawing board in their quest for a next-generation fighter jet following the end of the once-ambitious French-German-Spanish Future Combat Air System.
Two senior Republican senators on June 9 agreed Congress is unlikely to pass a third reconciliation bill, cautioning against relying on the possibility for defense funding.
Over the past several weeks, news began emerging about Ukraine’s use of modified, AI-enhanced kamikaze drones to target Russian cargo trucks, fuel tankers, railroad cars and even vessels as far as 150 miles behind the front lines. Dubbed the mid-range strike campaign by Kyiv, this effort is having a devastating effect on Russian logistics, cutting off key highways to Crimea, helping to halt Moscow’s gains, and pave the way for Ukrainian advances.
Airbus is giving a peek at its collaborative combat aircraft plans beyond its partnership with Kratos, saying it plans to have an in-house developed system called the U760 Ravenstorm ready for delivery by 2032.
Neighbors at a Texas Air Force Base say that they have seen poisonous snakes and scorpions hiding in waist-high weeds and grass in base neighborhoods where landscaping crews have not worked in over a month. Families at Lackland Air Force Base, which is home to Air Force basic training, shared photos with Task & Purpose of waist-high grass that residents say has been allowed to grow by base housing officials since the first week of May.
The newest Patriot surface-to-air missiles can be fired in seconds, but take more than two years to build and cost around $4 million each. Despite that math, the U.S. and its allies can’t get enough of them.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered India joint production of the country’s most advanced fifth-generation stealth fighter jet, the Su-57, and said Moscow was willing to cooperate without “limitations.”
Starting the second leg of his trip to Spain, Pope Leo sat up front with the pilots and spoke on the radio to a Spanish Air Force fighter jet that was escorting them.
