Land Warfare
Experts believe Ukraine’s near-term will be a grueling marathon between the West’s ability to churn out arms and Russia’s capacity to suffer.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Pentagon’s chief weapons tester recently revealed that when soldiers fire the main gun, “high levels of toxic fumes” fill the vehicle.
By Ashley Roque
Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov traveled to Paris for talks with counterparts, and came away with more firepower.
By Christina Mackenzie
The service postponed its full-rate production decision by nearly a year, while working with GM Defense to retest vehicle corrections to address “deficiencies.”
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Gen. David Berger said his Marines and Australian troops are experimenting with new combinations of weapons and new ways to use existing ones, though he avoided discussing any examples.
By Colin Clark
European defense spending, space governance and more is reviewed in our latest eBook: Year in Review & Looking Ahead. Gain insight into what happened on a global scale over the past year and be better prepared to address whatever comes next. View eBook here.
By Breaking Defense
Top US officials made high-profile visits recently to help quell Israeli-Palestinian violence, but Israeli defense officials clearly have Iran on the mind.
By Arie Egozi
The commander of the Swedish Army told Breaking Defense he’s looking forward to “kick-starting” development for the next, next BAE-made CV-90.
By Andrew White
“There is significant value in unclassified, shareable SAR imagery. And we’ve seen that in Ukraine. And so I think that has changed people’s minds quite a bit which has given a lot of momentum to … how government thinks about future procurements,” Capella CEO Payam Banazadeh told Breaking Defense.
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The brainchild of the Marines’ advanced tech lab, the Autonomous Littoral Connector system successfully beached in recent exercises. But the deep water of military acquisition looms ahead.
By Justin Katz
The service plans to host another “open” competition before crowning a winner for this multi-billion-dollar contract in 2026.
By Ashley Roque
In picking the precise type of M1 tank to send, the US must choose between giving Ukraine the best tech possible and risking the capture of secrets by Russia.
By Ashley Roque and Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Commercial SATCOM providers have long urged DoD and the services to move from buying bandwidth in fits and starts using short-term contracts to service-style contracts that resemble a civilian’s average mobile phone or cable TV/Internet plan.
By Theresa Hitchens
Funding for the items like protective gear and NVGs will be provided from the government’s €100 billon special arms fund, a seismic uplift in defense spending aimed at ending decades of peacetime underfunding and acquiring new military equipment at pace to deter Russian aggression.
By Tim Martin
