The Philippine military chief condemned Aug. 10 what he said was the provocative actions of two Chinese air force aircraft that executed a dangerous maneuver and dropped flares in the path of a Philippine air force plane on routine patrol in the South China Sea.
Russia is pushing back against Ukraine’s largest assault into Russian territory since the start of the war, sending troop reinforcements, establishing strict security measures in border areas and conducting airstrikes, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. ... But even as Russia has halted the quick advances made by Ukrainian troops who launched a surprise cross-border attack five days ago into the southwestern region of Kursk, Ukrainian forces seem to be holding ground.
A train of top Biden administration officials is planning to head to the Middle East for a dramatic week of high-stakes diplomacy to try to prevent war in the region and secure a hostage and ceasefire deal in Gaza.
The Biden administration is lifting its years-long suspension of offensive arms shipments to Saudi Arabia, authorizing an initial shipment of air-to-ground munitions and saying it would consider additional new transfers “on a typical case-by-case basis,” according to senior administration officials.
Palmer Luckey was an executive at Facebook when he first spoke with venture capitalist Trae Stephens about starting a weapons company. “I’m actually building a ramjet in my swimming pool,” Luckey told Stephens over lunch, referring to a type of engine designed to power high-speed missiles and aircraft.
In episode 196 of the Aerospace Advantage, Heather Penney chats with members of the Mitchell Institute team about the Air Force’s recent pause for its future air superiority program. What does this mean? Why does it matter? What possible courses of action might the Air Force might pursue?
The Missile Defense Agency is planning to choose a single vendor to deliver an interceptor capable of taking out a hypersonic weapon in its glide phase of flight, Lt. Gen. Heath Collins, the agency’s director, said Aug. 8 at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium.
Michael Horowitz exited his position at the Pentagon this week after serving as the first-ever deputy assistant secretary of defense for force development and emerging capabilities, according to a social media post he shared on Aug. 9.
The first images of Northrop Grumman’s Model 437, an advanced air combat drone that could potentially fill the requirement for the Air Force’s and/or Navy’s “loyal wingman” Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) programs, as well as those of allies, have hit social media.
The U.S. Space Force initiated a new phase in its missile defense satellite program. The Space Systems Command on Aug. 9 released a “request for prototype proposals” inviting vendors to submit designs for satellites known as Missile Track Custody Epoch 2, marking the second phase of the Space Force’s program to develop a missile-tracking network in medium Earth orbit (MEO).
Northrop Grumman is increasing its solid rocket motor (SRM) production capacity to get ahead of a potential surge demand, while looking at different ways to produce tactical motors to go farther, faster, and potentially cheaper.
A Marine Corps investigation released late Aug. 9 into an MV-22 Osprey crash off the northern coast of Australia that led to three fatalities last August pointed to “pilot error and complacency” as causing the accident.
Tiny JSX-2 microjets, each with a pilot crammed inside, have been zipping around the skies over Michigan playing the part of hostile aerial threats like drones and cruise missiles as part of a large force exercise. The use of the JSX-2s in this role underscores U.S. military concerns about the ever-growing dangers drones and cruise missiles pose, including to the U.S. homeland, and the parallel demand for more and better ways to simulate them in training.
