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Mar 19, 2024
Rising demand for weapons stocks is driving a review of European missile manufacturing.
Mar 18, 2024
The U.S. Air Force’s Strike Eagles use new tech and training to focus on the Indo-Pacific after decades in the desert.
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.

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Mar 18, 2024
The Pentagon appears to have reached peak spending and will have to determine how to meet its strategic objectives through redistribution and reprioritization
Mar 15, 2024
While the U.S. remains the world’s paramount military power, its defense industrial base has significant shortcomings compared to China’s.
Mar 15, 2024
France has become the world’s second-largest arms exporter after sales by Russia plummeted in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mar 15, 2024
Japanese lawmakers will revise the country’s arms export restrictions, a key step to enable the export of the trilateral GCAP.
Mar 14, 2024
The venerable C-130’s cargo capacity, lower speed threshold and commonality across the region make it ideal for relief operations over the Gaza Strip.
Mar 14, 2024
Embraer and Singapore’s ST Engineering say they will expand their collaboration in defense beyond the service and engineering of the C-390 transport aircraft.
Mar 12, 2024
In response to the rapidly changing strategic environment in the region, the Royal Thai Air Force has released an updated White Paper outlining investment priorities through 2037.
Mar 12, 2024
USAF is upping procurement spending on the B-21 Raider, though not as much as originally expected because of a favorable negotiated price with Northrop Grumman.