A pair of studies, one from the Secure World Foundation and one from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, examine the state of play as nations search for ways to keep each other from dominating the heavens.
By Michael MarrowA new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
Radars, EW, EO/IR, space imagery, and microelectronics are brought under one roof for a streamlined approach to common people and factories.
“The Department of Defense is working around the clock to look at the scope and scale of the distribution, the assessed impact and our mitigation measures,” said Chris Meagher, the assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs.
By Ashley Roque
“So, what worries me most is China’s use of space to complete the kill chain necessary to generate long-range precision strikes against the maritime and air components scheme of maneuver. That’s what concerns me the most,” Brig. Gen. Anthony Mastalir, commander of Space Forces Indo-Pacific, said.
By Colin Clark
Finnish naval officer talks NATO expectations, Russia’s conduct at sea and Ukraine conflict’s future
Commodore Jukka Anteroinen, the chief of staff of the Finnish Navy, talked with Breaking Defense at this week’s Sea Air Space symposium outside Washington.
By Aaron Mehta
The French military recently narrowed a field of 19 competitors to two in a race for hundreds of small, deadly UAVs.
By Christina Mackenzie
While a Turkish industry official claimed the country didn’t “need” the Russian systems, experts say a replacement has a little ways to go to catch other operational domestic variants.
By Agnes Helou
Gray Eagle is the low-cost, low-risk answer to Army modernization
Gray Eagle STOL and Gray Eagle 25M are the best options for Army aviation as it assesses where to move from its current inflection point.
A defense attaché to Kyiv told Breaking Defense that anytime the A-50 was aloft it was accompanied by two or more MiG-31Ks and that there was no telling when or if these aircraft might launch on demand.
By Reuben Johnson
Kyiv’s call for 350,000 artillery shells a month shows demand has effectively doubled since a Ukrainian official said in June that its armed forces were expending between 5,000 to 6,000 artillery rounds a day.
By Tim Martin
Despite the concerning finding, between 2021 and 2022, defense spending across the alliance increased by 2.2 percent in real terms, surpassing an estimated $1 trillion.
By Tim Martin
The new document, the first update since 1997, says Russia’s failure to establish competent logistics have been a “major factor” to why it has failed to achieve its objectives in Ukraine.
By Justin Katz
“This is probably my biggest worry, both there [the Black Sea region] and the Pacific, is that an aggressive Russia or China pilot or vessel captain or something gets too close — doesn’t realize where they are, causes a collision and it’s two in the morning and we are trying to unpack this as fast as we can,” said the head of the Marines.
By Aaron Mehta
UK armed forces minister James Heappey told lawmakers the UK was investigating giving Typhoons to countries that give MiGs to Ukraine, but experts said it’s unclear how the MiGs could change the war and if any other countries would really want the Typhoons in the first place.
By Tim Martin
“There are no big plot twists in this budget where we’re going off in some new directions of new initiatives that you never heard of from us before,” a senior defense official.
By Ashley Roque
“For the first time in the recent past US and allied policymakers and industry appear truly aligned on the need to look beyond established domestic supply chains to cross-border sourcing and collaboration,” writes Aleksandar Jovovic of Oliver Wyman.
By Aleksandar Jovovic