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In this week’s episode of The Break Out, Deputy Editor Lee Ferran and Senior Reporter Ashley Roque discuss Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth’s new order to review the US troop posture across Europe. Later, Ferran is joined by Congress and Defense Industry Senior Reporter Valerie Insinna to talk about the latest news in the military’s effort to develop drones that can fly alongside human pilots. Source link

Since it was first conceived over two decades ago, the Quad’s obituary has been penned time and again by commentators and strategic rivals alike.  Following its revival in 2017, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi famously predicted the grouping between Australia, the United States, Japan and India would “dissipate like sea foam.” More recently, one Australian analyst observed in November 2025, “the Quad is either dead or on life support so deep there are few signs of life.” A bungled vaccine rollout, diplomatic spats, and an enduring “coherence problem” have done little to prove its critics wrong. Since the advent of…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s meeting with Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval in New Delhi underscored the urgency of respecting each other’s core interests and advancing leader-level consensus.Both sides agreed that India and China are partners, not rivals, and should accelerate cooperation to stabilise ties and contribute to the modernisation of the Global South.Wang Yi emphasised that bilateral relations have returned to the track of recovery and improvement. He noted that the leaders of both countries had reached a strategic consensus that India and China are partners, which serves as a vital guarantee for the healthy and stable development…

Laura Heckmann, National Defense Mag. China has already demonstrated intent to have an international lunar research station manned by its military Source link

WASHINGTON — A new Air Force One plane that originated as a 747 jumbo jet gifted by Qatar will be available to transport the president beginning in July, following a 10-month sprint by L3Harris to deliver the plane last week, a company executive told Breaking Defense. President Donald Trump accepted the controversial Qatari gift during a delivery ceremony on Friday at Joint Base Andrews, Md., following months of criticism from lawmakers that the plane could open up security vulnerabilities and ethical concerns. Trump said the new plane will lead a flyover of military aircraft on July 4 as part of…

In a move that signaled a blunt recalibration of South Asian geopolitics, the United States has quietly shifted its strategic focus. It has reverted its “Indo-Pacific Command” back to its traditional designation of U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM). The reversal effectively undoes a 2018 policy, issued during the first Trump administration, that symbolically merged the maritime interests of the U.S. across both the Pacific and Indian oceans. Under the newly restructured USPACOM, the Indian Ocean is being treated largely as a strategic back up plan. The policy shift sends a clear signal that Washington views its ties with New Delhi as…

Pakistan’s claims of Rafale losses during Operation Sindoor have been decisively refuted once again, with an official Indian Air Force document confirming that all 36 Rafale jets acquired under the 2016 deal remain in service, according to a report by India Today.The June 2026 Request for Proposal for bridge support covers the entire fleet, leaving no room for speculation about combat losses. IDN had reported this development on 23-June-2026.The Indian Air Force has issued a Request for Proposal in June 2026 seeking a five‑month bridge support package for all 36 Rafale fighter aircraft. This package includes maintenance, logistics and technical…

A&SF The Space Force started its second live Tactically Responsive Space mission Source link

WASHINGTON — On the verge of approving the T-7 Red Hawk for production, the Air Force quietly assessed a key problem facing its new training jet: The service may have difficulty adequately sustaining it, according to an Air Force document reviewed by Breaking Defense. The Air Force document, part of a March 2026 internal presentation for the T-7’s production decision, rates sustainment of the aircraft as “high risk.” Sustainment essentially refers to a platform’s underlying logistics support, and in the case of the T-7, the Air Force is missing technical data it needs to maintain it — a source of…