Defense Budget, Policy & Operations Analysis
Oct 21, 2025
The U.S. Army and Bell are pushing to speed up fielding of the MV-75 tiltrotor by shifting acquisition dates, moving up funding and designing initial aircraft.
Oct 20, 2025
A product 30 years in the making passed a real-world evaluation with flying colors and now is set to enter Israel’s air and missile defense architecture.
Oct 15, 2025
The Pentagon has been seeking to impose unprecedented restrictions on journalists’ ability to cover the military for several months.
Oct 15, 2025
Turkish defense giant Aselsan has taken a lead role in Steel Dome—a homegrown air defense network to counter low-cost multicopter drones and hypersonic missiles.
Oct 07, 2025
As Beijing races to match U.S. capabilities in orbit, the Pentagon warns of rising threats across all orbital layers.
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Mar 16, 2026
Diehl has struck a partnership agreement with Indra to jointly pursue a Spanish medium-range air defense program.
Mar 16, 2026
The Swedish government is moving forward with efforts to build a local national security rocket launch capability as part of a wider push to enhance its military space capacity.
Mar 16, 2026
Japan has begun taking deliveries of the Joint Strike Missile (JSM) and Tomahawk cruise missile, Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi told reporters,
Mar 16, 2026
The UK is starting to plan the potential procurement of a specialist counter-UAS capability under its much larger Land Ground-Based Air Defense program.
Mar 13, 2026
All six crewmembers onboard a U.S. Air Force KC-135 were killed when it crashed in Iraq after an incident involving another tanker during Operation Epic Fury.
Mar 13, 2026
The relationship between the defense budget and GDP is a particularly close one in China, and that link is both strategic and financial.
Mar 13, 2026
Over the next decade $121.3 billion is set to be spent on C4ISR and armed ISR aircraft, with $55.4 billion of the total already under contract, Aviation Week predicts.
Mar 12, 2026
A U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker crashed March 12 in Iraq as part of the ongoing conflict in Iran, with one other aircraft involved in the incident.