Author: Defenceline Webdesk

COLORADO SPRINGS — The Space Force today released an unclassified version of long-awaited Objective Force plan for the next 15 years, along with a companion Future Operating Environment — two documents numbering 160 pages that, taken together, call for a greatly expanded service force structure by 2040. “The Objective Force we’re projecting calls for more Guardians — officers, enlisted and civilians — necessary to perform the new missions and the operations tempo being asked of the Space Force,” Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told the annual Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. “To meet mission requirements in the future…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Air Force officials are pursuing a space-based system to detect airborne threats and pushing off additional funding for battlespace awareness aircraft in the 2027 budget, even as the service’s fleet of radar planes is in Iran’s sights.A base contract has been awarded for a new space-based airborne moving target communication capability, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said Wednesday during his keynote address to the Space Symposium here. During a follow-up roundtable with reporters, the service leader said they’ve selected a pool of vendors and are progressing towards the first award. While he didn’t provide a specific…

India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has stated that India has deployed the maximum number of ships sailing across the Strait of Hormuz, underscoring the country’s balanced approach amid the ongoing crisis in West Asia.Speaking in Lucknow, he credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership for ensuring India’s stability despite global uncertainty and highlighted how the nation has maintained economic momentum even as energy prices and supply chains have been disrupted.He emphasised that India’s diplomatic ties with both the United States and Iran have safeguarded its strategic interests. Singh remarked that while many countries struggled with rising LPG prices, India managed to…

AT ADOC leads Army’s shift to data-centric operations by connecting commanders to enterprise data for timely decisions. Source link

WASHINGTON — The general in charge of America’s Golden Dome missile defense shield said today that a high-profile and technologically ambitious element of the project, space-based interceptors (SBIs), may not make it into the final architecture as originally envisioned if the tech is shown to be prohibitively costly. “We are so focused on affordability. If we cannot do it affordab[ly], we will not go into production,” Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein told members of a House Armed Services Strategic Forces subcommittee today. “Because we are looking at the threats from a multi-domain perspective to make sure I have redundant capabilities…

NATO is studying how to use ground and air robots to replace human soldiers in assaults, something Ukraine has been doing for more than a year.  But that hasn’t stopped Russia’s continuous assault with its own, increasingly autonomous one-way attack drones.On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a social-media splash with a video describing a historic first from last July: a skirmish in which Russian troops surrendered to Ukrainian robots. “The future is already on the front line—and Ukraine is building it,” Zelenskyy said in the video, adding that Ukrainian robotics companies “have already carried out more than 22,000 missions on…

Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu examining a Quantum computer at SRM UniversityAndhra Pradesh has officially become the first Indian state to commission indigenous quantum computing facilities, marking a historic milestone in India’s technological journey. The launch took place on 14 April 2026, coinciding with World Quantum Day, and positions Amaravati as the country’s emerging hub for quantum innovation.The commissioning was led by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who inaugurated the Amaravati Quantum Reference Facility (AQRF) at SRM University in Amaravati. Simultaneously, a second facility was virtually launched at Medha Towers in Gannavaram near Vijayawada, ensuring that the state now hosts multiple…

Breaking Defense After the president’s FY27 budget request zeroed out funding for the new engine, GE said more money is needed to finish qualification testing. Source link

COLORADO SPRINGS — The Department of the Air Force (DAF) has launched a competition for satellites that can track airborne targets, according to Secretary Troy Meink, rebuffing skepticism over whether the technology known as airborne moving target indication (AMTI) is ready for prime time.  “We’ve awarded the base contract for the new space-based airborne moving target indication capability, and are competing a contract for the first operational increment,” Meink said during a keynote address at the Space Symposium conference here. In a later briefing with reporters, Meink explained that the AMTI program consists of an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract…

NASHVILLE—The Army is continuing to name its airframes after Indigenous tribes with its first tiltrotor aircraft. The MV-75 is officially the Cheyenne II, the service’s undersecretary announced Wednesday at the Army Aviation Warfighting Summit.Members of the tribe have served in every U.S. armed service and during every major conflict, said Undersecretary Mike Obadal, a relationship that “evolved from warfare to mutual respect and finally into an unbroken legacy of patriotic service.”“In the Army, system names carry both history and expectations,” Obadal said. “With the MV-75, we honor a legacy forged in conflict, proven in battle, originally known to the U.S.…