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Under Trump, decision on Air Force’s NGAD will shape fleet for …
2 days ago · But NGAD’s original anticipated cost — which came in at about three times as much as an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, or in the neighborhood of $250 million to $300 million — derailed the Air ...
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Defense News offers premier news and analysis of Pentagon policy affecting defense programs to keep military and industry decision-makers informed.
New US Space Force jammers aim to disrupt China’s SATCOM …
Dec 19, 2024 · The U.S. Space Force is on track to field its first batch of a new ground-based satellite communications jammer in the coming months — designed to disrupt signals from enemy spacecraft.
No runways, no sorties: Chinese missiles threaten US airpower plans
Dec 17, 2024 · Recently, senior Air Force leaders have emphasized the need to protect U.S. air bases in the Indo-Pacific with more robust missile defense capabilities, with Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall ...
Taiwan gets US Abrams tanks, hardening final defenses in an …
6 days ago · The M1A2T is a customized M1A2 SEPv2 Abrams version, and these are the first new tanks Taiwan has received in nearly a quarter of a century. Taiwan previously received M60A3 TTS tanks from the U.S ...
Dwarfed by China in shipbuilding, US looks to build its defense base
Dec 8, 2024 · The U.S. government has come to see China as its “pacing challenge,” and officials have warned that Beijing is pursuing the largest peacetime military buildup in history, raising concerns ...
Pentagon unveils new plan to energize America’s defense sector
Oct 29, 2024 · Taylor-Kale said the Pentagon intends to update this plan annually to assess its progress and that the first one will come after the president’s fiscal 2026 budget request is released early next ...
Pentagon’s first industrial strategy calls for ‘generational’ change
Jan 11, 2024 · This is the Pentagon’s assessment in its first-ever National Defense Industrial Strategy, arriving at a moment of extreme demand. The U.S. is supporting partners threatened abroad — including ...
China leading ‘rapid expansion’ of nuclear arsenal, Pentagon says
Oct 24, 2024 · China is accelerating its buildup of nuclear weapons, forcing the U.S. to more than double earlier estimates of its pace, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm wrote in a report this week. The Defense ...