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Looking to make a quick start on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s sweeping “FORTRESS America” program to make every military base in the U.S. more self sufficient, the Pentagon is dialing up its efforts in an area the Air Force has been working for several years: energy resilience and independence.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took his Arsenal of Freedom tour to the swing states of Ohio and Wisconsin on Oct. 20, highlighting efforts to boost defense manufacturing before the midterm elections next month, including by visiting future E-4C "Doomsday" planes.
America is abandoning the rules, and the allies, it once kept safe.
The ex-USAF KC-10 is now headed for a second career in the private sector with Omega Air Refueling.
Army officials said soldiers can query AIAM for repair references, document maintenance issues for their supervisors to vet, connect with civilian logistics assistance representatives for help and access parts inventory.
Roughly two of every five fighters in the Air Force fleet could be F-35As by 2035, according to a new fighter force structure report the service submitted to Congress on Oct. 16. Lt. Gen. David Tabor, deputy chief of staff for plans and programs, revealed the new estimate during an Oct. 20 media roundtable at the Pentagon as he explained the report’s estimates of the future force’s mix of different types of fighters.
“We have proven that spacepower produces battlefield success. This means providing effective and well-equipped space forces, in the right quantities, to combatant commands on the front lines … and bringing space expertise directly to the fight no matter where it is,” the Space Force’s top officer wrote in a notice to guardians.
Reducing the speed at which weapons using Starlink can operate affects critical defensive and offensive weapons, but any alternatives have massive drawbacks.
A notable expansion of enterprise licensing for Palantir’s AI-powered software platform went into effect Oct. 1.
In mid-October the Turkish Land Forces Command organised the 2026 edition of Atiş Serbest, the annual fire coordination exercise, the
On October 20, 2026, Türkiye’s STM announced the keel-laying ceremony for the second logistics support ship for the Portuguese Navy in Istanbul. STM press release STM Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik ve Ticaret A.Ş. has reached another significant milestone in its international naval programmes. Selected by the Portuguese Navy following a competitive tender against leading global shipbuilders, ...
Helsinki is moving to restart domestic production of once-outlawed anti-personnel mines as Russia rebuilds its military posture along NATO’s northern flank.
Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer was selected as Secretary Hegseth's senior advisor and will visit military installations across the country.
The pursuit of over-the-horizon radars to watch over the strategic High North could point to a new role for the HAARP site.
HAVELSAN has demonstrated its ability to integrate unmanned air and maritime platforms for coordinated missions. HAVELSAN press release The demonstration brought together the USV-12 unmanned surface vessel (USV), manufactured by VN MARITIME, and the SAGAN unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), developed by ASİSGUARD. During the demonstration, the USV navigated autonomously. The UAV took off autonomously from the vessel, ...
The U.S. is looking at upgrades to support cargo, fighter aircraft, and more troops.
“We’re meeting with CENTCOM and doing the assessments right now from an installation perspective. Part of this is what will the global posture be in the future, and what does that require us to have?” a senior defense official told reporters today.
Air Force and Space Force leaders are urging Airmen and Guardians to embrace AI tools, though experts warn of technical and cultural hurdles along the way.
An internal cable from the agency extends Trump’s terminology change to emails, speeches, websites and official titles.
A U.S. Army air defense unit has been "earmarked" for support of the Golden Dome for America project, an Army official confirmed.
Another component in deterring Russia, Acting Chief of the Norwegian Army Trond Nilsen told Breaking Defense, is having the Finnmark Brigade fully operational by 2032-2033.
The fighter jet’s pilot served as an airborne “quarterback” and gave high-level directives to an Anduril-made Collaborative Combat Aircraft.
China built more than twice the naval tonnage of the U.S. in the 2024-25 period, narrowing the gap between the two countries’ navies, a new report says.
“We could continue to solely invest in it ourselves with the support of our current shareholders. We could think about broadening that base of investments, or we could think … about separating the business,” Northrop CEO Kathy Warden said.
Ghost Shark will deploy aerial drones, lay mines, and execute seabed resupply missions as part of Australia’s new undersea arsenal.
Netanyahu and Hegseth discussed “the threats in the region” and the U.S.-Israel partnership in dealing both offensively and defensively with those threats.
Russia’s maritime forces may be stretched thin now, but one analyst told Breaking Defense that’s unlikely to be the case “longer term.”
Gecko Robotics uses drones, wall-climbing robots and fixed sensors to gather data on components, decks, welds and hulls.
Turkey’s proposed budget calls for $44.5 billion in defense spending and a separate $25.2 billion for internal security, pending parliamentary approval.
The modular payloads will be integrated onto Anduril’s Ghost Shark and C2 Robotics’ Speartooth unmanned underwater vehicles as well as Ocius’s Bluebottle unmanned surface vessel (USV), the Australian DoD said in an announcement.