Budget, Policy & Operations

European defense technology firm MARSS develops an aerial ram to hard-kill drone swarms.

The short-range Osa surface-to-air missile system could wear down Russian forces and avoid the creation of a no-fly zone.

Uncrewed aircraft systems are clearly on the shopping list of Saudi Arabia’s armed forces.

The U.S. Congress is moving forward with a government-wide spending bill that would provide $728.5 billion for the Defense Department in fiscal 2022, placing a priority on protection of the Indo-Pacific region, space capabilities and assistance for Ukraine.

Some 300 initiatives are planned or in progress to make Saudi Arabia’s armed forces more professional and interoperable.

U.S. Air Force is optimistic about the schedule for the rollout and first flight.

U.S. Air Force secretary says invasion highlights critical investment areas for the service, but China is still the top priority.

While the 2022 growth rate is well below the double digits achieved through the 1990s and early 2000s, in dollars it is $15 billion, the largest-ever annual increase.

Chinese aircraft intrusions still accounted for 70% of all Japanese scrambles in February but Russian aircraft movements in were unusually high.

SpaceX has delivered Starlink terminals to Ukraine, worked to bypass jamming of the devices and is contemplating future space projects in the country.

The U.S. government is looking at how it could backfill the fighter fleet of Poland should that nation donate aircraft to Ukraine.

Middle Eastern nations need to increase levels of defense research and development (R&D) if they want to achieve their goals of developing more domestic capability, a think tank has warned.

Further requests from Airbus are delaying the signing of a contract for the demonstration phase of the Future Combat Air System, according to Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier.

Fighters, tankers, intelligence and surveillance, and uncrewed aircraft are on high alert at 30 locations.

Russia's week-old war has been harder and costlier than Moscow expected, presaging a prolonged, brutal conflict in Ukraine.

Putin’s false pretext for war will stain Russia’s reputation for decades.

Russia’s invasion has reawakened Western democracies and shown the limits of brute force.

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall is confident one of his key priorities—the development of a UAS that will fly along with an advanced fighter—is realistic in the near term based on multiple efforts in the U.S. and Australia.

The U.S. military on March 1 established a deconfliction line with the Russian Ministry of Defense aimed at avoiding incidents in the airspace over Eastern Europe amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Seven Romanian military personnel were killed during a search-and-rescue mission that was looking for the pilot of a MiG-21 fighter that had crashed.

Yuzhmash survives Russia’s opening strikes, but the Ukrainian company’s business may be disrupted for the long term.

Turkish Aerospace eyes “aggressive price policy” for international sales of indigenous Gokbey twin-engine medium rotorcraft.

Russia’s actions appear to have healed NATO and EU rifts and roused German aims of becoming a pillar of European defense.

The 15-nation partnership faces its strongest challenge amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

European Union plans to transfer Warsaw Pact-era combat aircraft to Ukraine appear to have faltered after the Eastern European governments operating them said they would not be handing over the aircraft.