China, Russia, Australia, the United Kingdom and the US Navy are also seeking their own CCA-like loyal wingman military drones. Breaking Defense's Aaron Mehta talks with David Alexander, president of ...

The White House also wants to shift $2.5 billion in reconciliation dollars provided by the One Big Beautiful Bill to pay ...

Bell’s V-280 Valor builds upon 600,000 hours of experience with the V-22 tiltrotor with a clean-sheet design to meet the Army’s requirement for an air-assault platform.

Vice Adm. Richard Correll said that Trump's announcement does not necessarily mean detonating a test weapon — noting that neither China nor Russia has conducted a nuclear explosive test in recent ...

A U.S. Army Soldier assigned to the 25th Infantry Division builds a drone in a First-Person View (FPV) Drone Operating Course on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, July 24, 2025. (U.S. Army photo by Spc.

Trick or treat? The Breaking Defense team talks about something truly scary — which Pentagon programs have been killed this year.

Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with President of the United Arab Emirates UAE Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Beijing, capital of China, May 30, 2024. (Li Xueren/Xinhua via Getty ...

The study notes that NC3 is one of the least understood of the many parts that make up the US nuclear weapons architecture, in part because of the high levels of secrecy that surround it. Thus, it is ...

Robbin Laird visited Italy's International Flight Training School in Sardinia at Decimomannu Airbase to see how it approaches training aviators for modern combat.

RTX will provide autonomy capabilities for General Atomics’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft offering dubbed the YFQ-42A, while Shield AI will supply the autonomy pilot for Anduril’s YFQ-44A, a source ...

The Defense Innovation Unit will now conduct an annual competition for sUAS and quadcopters to either stay on the Blue List or be added to it, Blue UAS Project Lead Trent Emeneker told Breaking ...