Defense Budget, Policy & Operations Analysis
Mar 15, 2024
With major F-15 retirements and a reduction in F-15EX buys, the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of Eagles faces a rocky future.
Mar 14, 2024
The realities of higher costs and program risk may not be enough to overcome the potential benefit of new technology.
Mar 13, 2024
While the Pentagon remains vexed on the November crash, the U.S. Navy says progress is being made on the clutch issue.
Mar 07, 2024
The project was eclipsed by private spacecraft refueling efforts.
Mar 07, 2024
Reengining the C-17 and adding low-cost connectivity upgrades emerge as top priorities for Air Mobility Command.
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Aug 18, 2025
China has completed the first system-level test of the YF-100K engine for its new Long March-10 rocket, a key vehicle designed for future crewed lunar missions.
Aug 14, 2025
The architecture would comprise surface batteries in the homeland with launchers positioned inside of standard, 40-ft.-long shipping containers and silos, according to slides presented to industry.
Aug 14, 2025
Ukrainian front-line troops received the first 1,000 first person view drones less than two weeks after a newly launched online weapons marketplace started processing orders.
Aug 14, 2025
Poland accounted for more than half of the $11.9 million in export sales in Taiwan’s drone sector recorded in the first half of the year.
Aug 13, 2025
Switzerland’s government has instructed the country’s defense ministry to look at options after failing to find agreement with the U.S. on price.
Aug 13, 2025
The MDA has released a solicitation for a new southern-facing radar to be operational within three years to support the Golden Dome for America missile shield.
Aug 13, 2025
Poland will spend $3.8 billion to upgrade its Lockheed Martin F-16 fleet to the Block 72 configuration, government officials have declared.
Aug 12, 2025
The U.S. Army is finalizing plans to buy a new medium-altitude uncrewed aerial system as it phases out its older MQ-1C Gray Eagle.