Drones, not the big, heavy artillery that the war was once known for, inflict about 70 percent of all Russian and Ukrainian casualties, said Roman Kostenko, the chairman of the defense and intelligence committee in Ukraine’s Parliament. In some battles, they cause even more—up to 80 percent of deaths and injuries, commanders say.
The U.S. will pause all military aid to Kyiv until President Trump determines that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is making a good-faith effort toward peace negotiations with Russia, according to a White House official.
China is driving wedges between the United States and Middle Eastern countries by spreading information that paints the U.S. as an unreliable partner while pitching its own military offerings as better options, according to a senior U.S. military official.
Mere weeks after being named the chief information security officer for the Defense Department, Katie Arrington was announced Monday as the Pentagon’s official “Performing the Duties of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer.”
Far away from home and flying high above the seas for an event called “Pacific Skies” last year, a small group of three German Eurofighters made several pitstops behind KC-135 Stratotankers, helping the jet fighter notch its longest-ever flight of roughly 10 and a half hours. It was a refueling mission like any other, except for one detail: Stratotankers supporting the flight were privately operated by the aerospace company Metrea, underscoring the growing role that commercial air refueling services can play to meet soaring demand among militaries for tanking.
The Pentagon is weighing options to establish new flight corridors to test hypersonic weapons over the U.S. and Australia—and it’s eyeing the Trump administration’s urgent call for a homeland missile shield as a mechanism to speed up the approval process.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has paused offensive cyber operations against Russia by U.S. Cyber Command, rolling back some efforts to contend with a key adversary even as national security experts call for the U.S. to expand those capabilities.
BAE Systems has secured a $151 million contract to develop a next-generation ground system for U.S. Space Force missile-warning satellites. The Space Force’s Space Systems Command announced March 3 that BAE Systems will lead the second phase of the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) command and control (C2) ground system program, known as FORGE C2.
As the Air & Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium kicks off March 3 in Aurora, Colo., private adversary air company Top Aces is previewing its new “constructive wingman” capability that will begin test and evaluation on its F-16A/B aggressor aircraft starting this spring.
As her AC-130H gunship approached enemy combatants in Afghanistan, former Air Force officer Allison Black's voice came across the field radios, shocking a Northern Alliance general. A navigator on board, she was part of a crew that killed 200 combatants, and the Afghan general dialed into the Taliban frequency to tell them about Black.
