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American defense strategy depends on airpower. That has been true for decades, but the demand signal is sharper now. The United States expects its Air Force to deter China, reassure allies in Europe, defend the homeland, respond to crises in the Middle East and remain ready for major war. Those missions are spread across different theaters, different timelines and different levels of risk. They all assume that enough combat airpower will be available when needed.  That assumption is becoming harder to defend.  The Air Force fighter fleet is now the oldest and smallest in the service’s 78-year history. Legacy fighter aircraft…

DAYTON, Ohio—Air Force officials plan to resume B-52 radar development with another Stratofortress after a deadly crash killed the eight-person crew onboard one of the bombers last month during a test flight. On June 15, a B-52 Stratofortress crashed in California during a test flight as part of the Air Force’s radar modernization program, which is aimed at keeping the service’s 75 Cold War-era bombers in the skies until at least the 2050s. The service had already planned to modify another aircraft with the updated Raytheon-built Active Electronically Scanned Array radar later this year, program officials told reporters on Monday during…

Twelve years into the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in New Delhi, and the unthinkable happened. A minister in the Union Cabinet, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, was forced to resign under massive pressure from student protesters demanding “accountability” for the leak of question papers for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Tests (NEET) on May 3. Pradhan’s resignation came 36 days after the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) launched its indefinite mass protests at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar calling for exactly that outcome. It is a major victory for the CJP, an online satirical campaign started by Abhijeet Dipke in…

MC Compass Points One of the big themes in your well-known “Combat Concepts” talk is the need to extend maneuver thinking beyond warfighting concepts to application. For you, General Gray,… Source link

WASHINGTON — L3Harris has reached a framework agreement with the Pentagon to ramp up solid rocket motor production for PAC-3 missiles and THAAD interceptors over the next seven years, the department announced today. The two agreements with L3Harris come as the Pentagon aims to boost weapons production following the war in Ukraine and as operations in Iran have prompted questions about US munitions levels. The deals are the first to center around the critical technology of solid rocket motors, which has long been a chokepoint for missile production as a result of its fractured, fragile industrial base. Under the PAC-3…

On July 23, India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) successfully carried out the maiden test of the M1 long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM), one of three interceptors being developed under the Kusha program, from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast. This is an important milestone in India’s evolving multi-layered long-range air defense architecture envisaged under Mission Sudarshan Chakra that is scheduled to be put in place by 2035. This test was conducted against an electronic target simulating a high-speed and high-altitude aerial threat, which was successfully intercepted. DRDO said that the Kusha missile system is capable of…

Rebecca Grant, Lexington Institute Sweeping right-to-repair legislation is a feel-good fix, but it could drive away new defense companies and slow down major industry players Source link

WASHINGTON — The US Coast Guard wants technology solutions to take down unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) as a way to bolster port security. While “effective” technologies exist to track and detect UUVs, there are few “tested and fielded” solutions equipped with defeat and mitigation systems, according to a request for information the Coast Guard published on Friday.  “Malicious actors can employ UUVs for a range of activities, including intelligence gathering, surveillance, smuggling, sabotage of critical infrastructure, and kinetic strikes,” the notice said. “The covert nature and advanced navigation capabilities of modern UUVs make them difficult to detect, track, and mitigate…

The Department of National Defence (DND) and the Defence Investment Agency (DIA) launched the Defence Drone Initiative (DDI) on 23 July 2026, opening a standing marketplace meant to qualify Canadian companies to supply uncrewed and autonomous systems to the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG). The marketplace runs through a Request for Supply Arrangement (RFSA) open on CanadaBuys until 14 August 2026, with the Defence Investment Agency holding a virtual information session for suppliers on 30 July. Minister of National Defence David McGuinty framed the initiative as a speed play, saying the DDI “will connect the…

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