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US clears F-35 sale to Romania, bolstering NATO’s eastern flank

Defense News - 21:14 Sep 13, 2024

The approval of the $7.2 billion deal for the fifth-generation fighter comes as NATO allies are worried about Russian aggression.

Tags: NATO
Massive Boeing machinist strike hits KC-46 tanker production

Defense News - 18:32 Sep 13, 2024

Boeing's CFO said the strike will affect a facility working on the KC-46 and increase the program's cost pressures.

Tags: KC-46
This Army division just ran cybersecurity for a far-away brigade

Defense News - 17:02 Sep 13, 2024

The 3rd Infantry Division ran cybersecurity for one of its brigades that was deployed to a challenging and far away training exercise.
Pentagon readies for 6G, the next of wave of wireless network tech

Defense News - 14:54 Sep 13, 2024

That work is increasingly important for the U.S., which is racing against China to shape the next iteration of wireless telecommunications.
France tests space lasers for secure satellite downlink in world first

Defense News - 14:06 Sep 13, 2024

The point-to-point nature of lasers makes them more secure than radio frequencies, and they can’t be jammed the way radio can.
Ukraine wants 12 Viper attack helicopters spurned by Slovakia

Defense News - 10:55 Sep 13, 2024

A Ukrainian lawmaker has called on defense leaders in Bratislava to make up their minds about a pending Viper offer.

Tags: VIPER
Italian Air Force’s famed acrobatic squad changes course on new planes

Defense News - 09:07 Sep 13, 2024

The Frecce Tricolori is to switch to flying the Leonardo M-346 jet trainer after using the aging M-339 for decades.
Navy to commission first sub designed for both men and women sailors

Defense News - 21:02 Sep 12, 2024

The New Jersey is entering the fleet about 14 years after the Defense Department lifted its ban on women serving on subs.
Army picks two companies to get small drones to brigade combat teams

Defense News - 20:19 Sep 12, 2024

Two companies will provide small, expendable and reconfigurable air drones to brigade combat team maneuver companies.
US Space Force is urged to flag emerging humanitarian crises on Earth

Defense News - 16:24 Sep 12, 2024

A new report from RAND Corp. argues that space-enabled insights could elevate the importance of human security issues for military decision-makers.
The aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt is leaving the Middle East

Defense News - 15:41 Sep 12, 2024

The carrier has been operating alongside the Abraham Lincoln in recent weeks amid fears of war breaking out between Israel and Iran.
What if Russia resumes nuclear tests?

Defense News - 11:58 Sep 12, 2024

Russia's threatening nuclear rhetoric merits an in-kind response, argues RAND analyst and former nuclear test ban treaty negotiator William Courtney.
How a sailor shortage is crippling ship maintenance at sea

Defense News - 21:38 Sep 11, 2024

Sixty-three percent of executive officers said that insufficient manning made it “moderately to extremely difficult to complete repairs while underway."
Turkey advances plan for a national air-defense shield

Defense News - 09:56 Sep 11, 2024

The country's Steel Dome concept aims to integrate a smattering of national capabilities for tracking and intercepting aerial threats.
Iran sending Russia batch of close-range missiles, Pentagon says

Defense News - 20:32 Sep 10, 2024

The missiles will help Russia preserve its stores of longer-range fires that could strike deeper into Ukraine, U.S. officials said.

Tags: Russia
NATO shepherds 10 firms whose tech could help the alliance

Defense News - 16:18 Sep 10, 2024

The companies are part of the Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic’s inaugural cohort, which NATO announced last year.

Tags: NATO
Russia launches massive naval drills with China

Defense News - 15:43 Sep 10, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the war games, which span both hemispheres, are the largest of their kind in three decades.
Boeing to launch space-based quantum demo in 2026

Defense News - 14:20 Sep 10, 2024

Through the effort, Boeing hopes to learn more about how to build quantum networks that could prove transformational for a number of industries.

Tags: Boeing
Ukraine’s fire-dropping drones can find, shock Russian troops: experts

Defense News - 11:45 Sep 10, 2024

The high-temperatures of the blend can damage or destroy caches of equipment and ammunition in a single sortie.
EU told to hire defense industry commissioner to compete with US

Defense News - 09:06 Sep 10, 2024

The European Union must find new ways of jolting its collective defense industry, a new report in Brussels urges.

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