LONDON – British Ministry of Defence officials have confirmed the military will buy more than the 48 F-35B combat jets already on order, but they were reluctant to be drawn on exactly when and how many aircraft may eventually be involved when they gave evidence to the parliamentary Defence committee Dec 8.
The number and profile of a future order will in part be decided by the…
Official: Trump to Attend the Army-Navy Game at West Point
December 8, 2020
President Donald J. Trump walks across Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 14, 2019, during the 120th Army-Navy Game. (Erik Estrada/U.S. Marine Corps)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend this weekend’s Army–Navy…
WASHINGTON — Boeing, General Atomics and Kratos will create prototypes for the Air Force’s Skyborg program and have a mere five months to build the first test vehicles of the autonomous combat drone.
As part of the Skyborg program, the Air Force hopes to build a…
The US Navy wants to find ships to kill using aerial drones launched from submarines
December 8, 2020
WASHINGTON – The name of the game in the Pacific is stand-off range. But with longer range torpedoes and anti-ship missiles in the arsenal, submariners are looking to a new domain to help them extend their deadly reach: The air.
In an October request for information, Naval Sea Systems Command’s Submarine Combat and Weapons Control Program Office asked industry for input into a…
Citing littoral combat ship failures, Congress pushes the US Navy to get FFG(X) right
December 5, 2020
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy will have to set up a land-based testing site for the engineering plant destined for its new Constellation-class frigate program, according to a provision in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act on President Trump’s desk.
The frigate…
The Air Force wanted to mothball over 100 planes. Here’s what Congress says it will permit.
December 5, 2020
WASHINGTON — Congress is seeking to block the Air Force from retiring any of its A-10 Warthog attack planes, KC-135 refueling tankers and RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drones this fiscal year.
On Dec. 3, the House and Senate Armed Services committees put forward the…
Defense Business Board members replaced with Trump loyalists
December 5, 2020
WASHINGTON — Nine members of the Defense Business Board, an advisory panel of outside experts for the Defense Department, have been replaced, the Pentagon announced Friday. Among the newcomers are loyalists to President Donald Trump,
Some of the incoming DBB members are Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager; David Bossie, a Republican activist best known as leader of the…
WASHINGTON ― The final version of the must-pass annual defense policy bill unveiled Thursday mandates the U.S. president sanction Turkey for its acquisition of the S-400 air missile defense system.
Though President Donald Trump has held off sanctioning Turkey for the…
Israeli Navy welcomes new generation of German-made warships
December 4, 2020
HAIFA, Israel — Israel’s Navy on Wednesday welcomed the first of four German-made warships that will be at the vanguard of the country’s efforts to protect its coastline and growing natural gas industry.
The first missile boat of “Project Magen” docked at…
WASHINGTON — A year after the U.S. Army awarded a contract to build a heavy-duty robot able to dispose of bombs and other explosives, the Air Force is looking for its own system — and it wants to see what’s on the market before committing to purchasing what the Army buys.
The Air Force in October released a solicitation for a large explosive ordnance disposal robot, a commercial…
