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Washington has spent decades asking the wrong question about the Army. Every few years a new strategy arrives and the debate resets. Should the Army be larger or smaller? Heavy or light? Optimized for Europe, the Indo-Pacific or homeland defense? Built for counterinsurgency, large-scale combat or multidomain operations? These are reasonable questions, but they share an assumption history keeps disproving: that someone will tell the Army in advance what it needs to become. That is not how the world works. Presidents rarely choose the crises they inherit. Pearl Harbor, September 11th, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, COVID-19, Russia’s invasion…

Soldiers operate RBS 70 NG short-range air defence system. Credit: Saab. Finland has placed an order for the RBS 70 NG with Sweden-based Saab The deal will cost the Finnish Defence Forces’ logistics Command $126m RBS 70 NG features an unjammable laser-guided missile, an automatic target tracker and built-in night capability The Finnish Defence Forces’ Logistics Command has placed an order with Saab to acquire RBS 70 NG [new generation] short-range air defence (SHORAD) missile systems. Valued at Skr1.2bn ($126m), the deal will see the Nordic nation upgrade its existing legacy RBS 70 systems, which Finland has used since 2008.…

WASHINGTON — The estimated cost of buying the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has risen in recent years, but the Defense Department now expects to spend less money overall on the stealth jet compared to earlier projections, according to a recent Pentagon report.  In all, the Pentagon anticipates it will cost about $536.3 billion to acquire all planned copies of the tri-variant F-35, according to what’s known as a modernized selected acquisition report (MSAR) released by the Pentagon [PDF] that covers the year 2025. That’s up from $485.2 billion in a previous MSAR published in 2024. The estimates encompass development and…

An Airbus A330 MRTT refuelling fighter jets in mid-air. Credit: © Airbus. Spain has approved a €5.4bn ($6.3bn) framework funding envelope, paving the way for a joint procurement with Poland for at least seven Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft. The agreement will see Poland receiving four aircraft by 2030, with Spain taking three. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more According to the Spanish government, the seven-year deal also covers the logistical support needed to bring the planes into service. Plans…

LAT will train approximately 50 German Air Force pilot trainees effective 1 February 2027. Credit: The Art of Pics/Shutterstock.com. Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT) has been selected to provide Initial Flight Training (IFT) for new German Air Force pilots, beginning in February 2027 at its Rostock-Laage centre.  The IFT programme, to be delivered to around 50 trainee pilots annually, is set to cover both classroom theory and practical flying instruction.    Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more According to LAT, the training will include core subjects…

English (Original) Spanish – Español French – Français German – Deutsch Arabic – العربية Chinese – 中文 Japanese – 日本語 Russian – Русский Portuguese – Português Italian – Italiano Korean – 한국어 Dutch – Nederlands Turkish – Türkçe Polish – Polski Hindi – हिन्दी 🤖 Hi! I’m here to help you understand this article. Ask me anything about the content! Send By Andre Pienaar Tory Bruno’s appointment as Honorary Chair of World Space Week 2027 recognises a leadership career spent defending America and the free world. When the World Space Week Association announced this week that Tory Bruno would serve…

AVR founder and director Martin Carr points to Ukraine’s UAS integration as a model for Nato militaries’ UAS combat teams. Source link

English (Original) Spanish – Español French – Français German – Deutsch Arabic – العربية Chinese – 中文 Japanese – 日本語 Russian – Русский Portuguese – Português Italian – Italiano Korean – 한국어 Dutch – Nederlands Turkish – Türkçe Polish – Polski Hindi – हिन्दी 🤖 Hi! I’m here to help you understand this article. Ask me anything about the content! Send The number of UK jobs supported by defence spending in weapons and ammunition manufacturing rose by 51 per cent in 2024/25, according to new Ministry of Defence figures. The increase came as the number of UK industry jobs supported…

HONOLULU—A new encryption-based app, Kibu, available to U.S. military operators and foreign military partners, could change the way militaries and consumers communicate.Civilian and government officials are accustomed to using their own phones and tend to rely on commercial messaging apps, even when they shouldn’t. For example, U.S. operators in Poland and elsewhere have communicated with Ukrainian counterparts over the popular communication app Signal, because of its wide adoption and availability on regular consumer phones.But those conversations—particularly those involving U.S. special operators—may occur over networks that the U.S. military doesn’t own, so-called dirty networks.  This is because they often conduct operations…

WASHINGTON — Maintenance delays and “idle time” for Navy attack submarines have cost the service $3.4 billion over the past decade, and the problem is likely to persist for years to come, according to a government watchdog. “Without mitigation, 15 attack submarines will enter inactive idle time from fiscal year 2026 through fiscal year 2030 — during which time the Navy could incur more than 14,000 days of inactive idle time and $3.1 billion in costs to operate and support these inactive submarines,” the Government Accountability Office wrote in a report published today. “The U.S. Navy has not fully evaluated…