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Using RPAs and more to achieve stability in the Arabian Gulf and beyond

Using RPAs and more to achieve stability in the Arabian Gulf and beyond
Using RPAs and more to achieve stability in the Arabian Gulf and beyond

General Atomics’ commitments to the UAE go beyond the long-term support it’s planning for additional aircraft systems.

Boeing’s Dubai Airshow pitch focuses heavily on Performance Based Logistics

Boeing’s Dubai Airshow pitch focuses heavily on Performance Based Logistics
Boeing’s Dubai Airshow pitch focuses heavily on Performance Based Logistics

“Boeing customers around the world are moving to Performance Based Logistics solutions because PBL has the potential to lower flying hour costs, increase aircraft availability, and maximize the use of local industry,” company exec Rick Lemaster told Breaking Defense.

AFCENT working on anonymous threat data pool, to get around partner trust issues

AFCENT working on anonymous threat data pool, to get around partner trust issues
AFCENT working on anonymous threat data pool, to get around partner trust issues

“Do we share data into a central hub where it becomes anonymous, where you don’t know where the source came from, but then you trust the output?” asked AFCENT Deputy Commander Brig. Gen. David Mineau.

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Global security a collective responsibility of nations and industry

Global security a collective responsibility of nations and industry
Global security a collective responsibility of nations and industry

Heidi Grant, President, Business Development, Defense, Space & Security Global Services at Boeing, shares an industry perspective to this year’s theme of moving into the future with transformational insights.

EXCERPT: How Marvel’s ‘Civil War’ is an allegory for humanity’s nuclear weapons dilemma

EXCERPT: How Marvel’s ‘Civil War’ is an allegory for humanity’s nuclear weapons dilemma
EXCERPT: How Marvel’s ‘Civil War’ is an allegory for humanity’s nuclear weapons dilemma

Breaking Defense’s own Theresa Hitchens recently penned an essay identifying some real-world lessons to be gleaned from the fictional Sokovia Accords debate.

Army lab pushes standardized batteries for frontline soldiers: STUB and OSCAR

Army lab pushes standardized batteries for frontline soldiers: STUB and OSCAR
Army lab pushes standardized batteries for frontline soldiers: STUB and OSCAR

Soldiers burdened by 15-plus pounds of batteries — of multiple, incompatible types — could benefit from more efficient, standardized power sources like the Small Tactical Universal Battery.

B-21 Raider takes first flight

B-21 Raider takes first flight
B-21 Raider takes first flight

The B-21 Raider, America’s newest stealth bomber, “is in flight testing,” an Air Force spokesperson confirmed to Breaking Defense.

FCAS weighing 4 fighter designs, could make final choice by March 2025

FCAS weighing 4 fighter designs, could make final choice by March 2025
FCAS weighing 4 fighter designs, could make final choice by March 2025

“There is a good working atmosphere and the deliverables are being delivered,” Major General Jean-Luc Moritz said of the French-German-Spanish future fighter system project.

Emirati firm to put missiles on MQ-9B, as US official says SkyGuardian, F-35 deal still ‘on the table’

Emirati firm to put missiles on MQ-9B, as US official says SkyGuardian, F-35 deal still ‘on the table’
Emirati firm to put missiles on MQ-9B, as US official says SkyGuardian, F-35 deal still ‘on the table’

A nearly $3 billion deal for 18 MQ-9B SkyGuardians was put on hold by the Biden administration, linked to concerns over the Gulf nation’s embrace of Chinese wireless tech.

Arrow 3 air defense system notches first successful intercept

Arrow 3 air defense system notches first successful intercept
Arrow 3 air defense system notches first successful intercept

“The interceptor effectively intercepted a target launched towards Israel in the Red Sea region,” the IDF said in a statement about the Arrow 3’s first successful intercept.

Romania cleared to buy $2.5B worth of Abrams tanks

Romania cleared to buy $2.5B worth of Abrams tanks
Romania cleared to buy $2.5B worth of Abrams tanks

Romania hopes to buy 54 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams Main Battle Tanks through the Foreign Military Sales process.

Space Force taps 4 firms to vie for missile warning C2 prototype

Space Force taps 4 firms to vie for missile warning C2 prototype
Space Force taps 4 firms to vie for missile warning C2 prototype

The Space Force expects the multi-faceted Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) program to cost a total of $2.4 billion.

Air Force’s first T-7 touches down at Edwards AFB ahead of new test phase

Air Force’s first T-7 touches down at Edwards AFB ahead of new test phase
Air Force’s first T-7 touches down at Edwards AFB ahead of new test phase

“Like most test programs, we’ll have discovery and we’ll overcome it quickly,” said Air Force T-7A program lead Col. Kirt Cassell.

On ATACMS for Ukraine, don’t settle for a job half done

On ATACMS for Ukraine, don’t settle for a job half done
On ATACMS for Ukraine, don’t settle for a job half done

In this op-ed, John Hardie and Bradley Bowman argue that the US should send Ukraine as many ATACMS as it can without impacting US military readiness.