Author: Defenceline Webdesk

On the 73rd anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement late last month, South Korea’s Minister of Unification Chung Dong-young declared, “We must end the Armistice regime and move to a peace regime.” His statement echoed a promise from South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, who earlier in July promised South Korea’s Peace Unification Advisory Council that his administration would work to transition the Korean Peninsula away from the Armistice Agreement toward a “peace regime” paradigm.  But what does this actually mean? What is a “peace regime” and is it attainable with North Korea? These questions matter because they inform the trajectory…

J.M. Phelps, Gateway Pundit A colonel in the Air National Guard (ANG), who had nearly 35 years of service, was relieved of her command in 2021, coincidentally at a time when one of her… Source link

HUNTSVILLE, AL. — As the Pentagon and other militaries around the world rush to deploy large satellite constellations designed to be less susceptible to kinetic attack, US military officials responsible for space operations see laser weapons — on the ground, in the air, at sea and even in space ― as both a future threat and an opportunity. “Surely you’re not going to try and attack with a direct asset ASAT [anti-satellite weapon] 10,000 satellites,” Lt. Col. Rick Zellman, deputy commander of US Space Command (SPACECOM), said today. Instead, he told the annual Army Space and Missile Defense Symposium here,…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—The sprawling Golden Dome missile-defense program is in peril because the White House decided to seek the vast majority of its 2027 funding via a controversial budget maneuver, the program’s leader said Tuesday.Gen. Michael Guetlein didn’t explicitly call out the administration’s decision to propose using reconciliation to fund about 97 percent of the program’s $17.5 billion request. But the Space Force four-star did say it creates a “tough budget environment” as lawmakers remain cool to the administration’s request for a third partisan-led defense-funding measure.“If they don’t figure it out, there is no Golden Dome,” Guetlein told attendees at the…

Howard German, The Aviationist modernization, readiness, pilot training, artificial intelligence, Space Force growth, recruiting, and the future of American airpower Source link

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Work on the Golden Dome national air defense shield could come to a grinding halt in October if lawmakers do not figure out a way to continue funding for the presidential initiative, the general in charge of the massive project warned today.  “I will tell you that if they don’t figure it out, there’s no Golden Dome because there is no funding,” Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein told an audience at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium today in Huntsville, Ala. “Without continued funding, Golden Dome will stop with everything we’ve already built and delivered,” he later…

The UK Ministry of Defence has contended with multiple pressures to its budget. Credit: UK MoD/Crown copyright MoD spent £9.7m on ePCs in July 2026 (£3.1m virtual; £6.5m physical) Spend included hotels/resorts, bars/nightclubs, gift/novelty shops, and flights 2026 ePC total is £84.6m so far; July was the lowest month, March the highest The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) spent over £9.7m ($13.1m) on payments using electronic purchasing cards (ePC) in July 2026, covering items such as gift cards and novelty shops, hotels and resorts, and bars and nightclubs. According to transparency information released by the UK MoD on 10 August…

DefOne Three of the four House and Senate committees have marked up the spending proposal. Here’s what they want. Source link

WASHINGTON — Electric aircraft startup Joby Aviation has agreed to acquire the military technology firm Resonant Sciences and convert the Dayton, Ohio-based company into Joby’s dedicated defense business, the two companies announced today.  The $500 million acquisition consists of roughly $450 million in cash and $50 million in Joby common stock, according to a joint press release from both companies. The transaction is expected to close “in the first half of 2027,” subject to regulatory approval. Joby is one of several electric air taxi services racing to market targeting point-to-point shuttling in urban environments — an ambition broadly slowed by…

Expect to see the solicitation for the next iteration of the Pentagon’s main cloud-computing contract on Aug. 24.The Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract is the Defense Department’s vehicle for buying cloud services from the main hyperscalers: Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft Azure and Oracle. The Defense Information Systems Agency announced the date as part of its monthly acquisition post. The new version, called JWCC Unified Cloud Marketplace, will expands what DOD can buy through the vehicle.Tier 1 will be for the hyperscalers. Tier 2 covers “everything-as-a-service” including software, platform, and non-hyperscale infrastructure. Tier 3 is reserved for what DISA is calling “Commercial innovators and small businesses”: emerging companies and small…