Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, Brian covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times. Over a decade as a defense journalist, he has reported from dozens of bases at home and abroad, including austere airstrips in Afghanistan, the cockpit of a B-52 over the South Pacific and the boom operator station of a KC-46. Before the military beat, Brian covered the Washington state legislature for the Associated Press.
Slovakia is willing to give its S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine, provided it can get replacements to avoid a “security gap,” the country’s defense minister says.
The U.S. is dramatically ramping up its military assistance to Ukraine after the country’s president made an emotional appeal to Congress, with the new package including unmanned aircraft for the first time and increased discussions with allies to send Russian-made air defense systems.
