By 2028, the Air Force expects that the T-7 Red Hawk will be flying with new pilots, heralding a modern era of training. But an internal Air Force presentation, dated August 2025 and viewed by Breaking Defense, says that for the first several years those aircraft will come with a “serious” airworthiness risk, stemming from what the document calls “non-compliance” on the part of contractor Boeing to obtain necessary information on the training jet.
Two two executive orders on June 22 aim to hasten the arrival of useful quantum computers while protecting U.S. systems from them.
China’s newest air-to-air missile, the PL-16, could vie with an equivalent advance by the U.S. military and give the People’s Liberation Army an edge in any Asia-Pacific conflicts because of its increased travel distance and a second-wind feature, experts say.
The Defense Intelligence Agency is taking steps toward the potential launch of an artificial intelligence prototype project as it seeks new technologies to overcome inefficiencies in its procurement enterprise.
Last week, President Donald Trump held a press conference at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to introduce the new Air Force VC-25B Bridge jet that officially arrived at the Presidential Airlift Group. ... To get a better sense of how this project came together so quickly, the challenges it faced and the tradeoffs that had to be made, we spoke with Jason Lambert, President of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance at L3Harris, the company that performed the conversion. During the interview, he gave us some unique insights into this highly visible and often controversial effort.
A U.S. military strike killed two men accused of being “narco-terrorists” while aboard a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on June 21. U.S. Southern Command stated in a post on the social platform X that the strike was carried out as part of “Operation Southern Spear” against a vessel “operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations.”
After three decades of delivering airframes in support of the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force, the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft’s production line will be shutting down following the platform’s final deliveries scheduled for the end of 2027.
Senate lawmakers want to give the Defense Department new tools in fiscal 2027 to recruit and retain cyber talent, limit the department’s ability to carry out workforce reductions, and establish a program to retain high-performing supervisors and managers across the department.
China on June 22 announced sanctions on 10 American military-related companies in response to a recent U.S. move that bars some leading Chinese tech companies from defense contracts.
The basic training facility for the Air Force in San Antonio, Texas, is experiencing a flu outbreak following the end of mandatory vaccination for all service members. As of June 17, there are at least 159 known cases among recruits and two hospitalizations among recruits at Lackland Air Force Base at Joint Base San Antonio, two sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
A memorial is now on display at Barksdale Air Force Base for the eight people killed recently in the B-52 crash at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The memorial honors the crew of the TORCH 11.
