Breaking Defense

EXCLUSIVE: SNC pulls out of Navy’s trainer jet competition

Thales subsidiary lands US Navy contract for remote mine hunting modules

The contract, awarded to Advanced Acoustic Concepts, is worth $53.9 million and also covers engineering support for the modules.

By Diana Stancy

Air Warfare

Air Force divests its few A-29s, explores ‘future options’

A set of three A-29 Super Tucanos are destined for storage after officials at the Air Force Test Pilot School opted against using the turboprops, a spokesperson for Edwards Air Force Base told Breaking Defense.

By Michael Marrow

Naval Warfare

France investing in naval power as military ambition is ‘to be feared’: Armed forces minister

Macron has previously used similar words during his nuclear strategy address in March, when he announced in Brittany an increase in the country’s nuclear warhead stockpile.

By Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo

Latest News

Air Warfare

Lockheed ‘looking for partners’ on NATO next-gen helo bid, will build in Europe

“Especially from an X2 standpoint, the largest procurement out there is really NGRC. And that recapitalization of the helicopter fleet in Europe is the largest thing we see today at least in the next five or 10 years,” said Sikorsky boss Rich Benton.

By Michael Marrow

Air Warfare

An FCAS fracas and Embraer’s European embrace: Paris Air Show Day 2 [Video]

Editor-in-Chief Aaron Mehta and Senior Reporter Valerie Insinna run down the biggest news from the second day of the Paris Air Show.

By Breaking Defense Video

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Another busy week for the defense industry, with Euronaval underway in Paris and the International Fighter Conference convening in Germany
A closer look at the Hollywood star who became an Air Force general

Space

Commercial ISR satellite operators petition Congress to reverse NRO cuts

The June 16 letter asserts that the cuts will undercut the Pentagon's Golden Dome plan to create an air and missile defense shield over the US homeland.

By Theresa Hitchens

Air Warfare

The sights of the Paris Air Show Day 2 [PHOTOS]

A selection of images from the Breaking Defense team in Paris.

By Breaking Defense Staff

Networks & Digital Warfare

DARPA aims to make defense firms ‘much, much harder’ to hack with ‘formal methods’ push

Right now, DARPA's Kathleen Fisher said, much of the defense industrial base is "choosing to leave the doors open, leave the windows up and not use the locks" in cyberspace.

By Carley Welch

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Networks & Digital Warfare

‘OpenAI For Government’ launches with $200M win from Pentagon CDAO

A new OpenAI initiative will also “consolidate” the company’s existing work with government clients like the Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, Los Alamos and the Treasury Department.

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Global

Trump shifts Greenland from EUCOM to NORTHCOM’s responsibility

The move comes after President Donald Trump has called for US control over the Danish territory.

By Lee Ferran and Ashley Roque

Naval Warfare

‘Oversaturated’: Can the Navy make good on unmanned vessel demand after industry surge?

Company after company has introduced unmanned platforms, but as one analyst said, the Navy "just has not given the indication that they are buying these at scale."

By Justin Katz

Global

Will Israeli strikes impede Iran’s defense exports to Russia?

Several experts said that while it's too soon to know the full extent of the impact on the Russia-Ukraine war, there are a few key areas to watch.

By Agnes Helou

All Domain

Auterion signs MoU with Taiwan for drone swarming software

The agreement will see AuterionOS, the company’s operating system for uncrewed systems and Nemesis, Auterion’s AI-powered drone swarming platform, integrated into a new generation of unmanned systems being developed by NCSIST and Taiwan’s defense companies.

By Mike Yeo

Air Warfare

FCAS drama: ‘Difficulties’ between Airbus and Dassault again hit sixth-gen fighter effort

“Clearly, we have observed with this [1B] phase, difficulties in the execution," Jean Brice Dumont told reporters during an Airbus media briefing at Le Bourget today.

By Tim Martin