Michael Marrow covers air warfare for Breaking Defense. He holds a BA in history from the University of Virginia and started out as a freelance reporter covering local news in Fairfax County, Virginia and policing in Charlottesville, Virginia. Michael previously reported on the Air Force and Space Force for Inside Defense, where he tracked major acquisitions, policy changes and modernization efforts.
As the US watches warily, Maj. Gen. Ireneusz Nowak told Breaking Defense that Kyiv's move "spoiled totally the perception of President Putin as a strong leader."
Following developmental woes, Lockheed Martin plans to invest over $350 million in the F-35 program over the next five years, which the company told Breaking Defense will be geared toward "enhancing capabilities and driving efficiency across the F-35 enterprise."
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"Poland is the only country in the world that shares the common borders at the same time with Russia, with Ukraine and with Belarus. To keep the borders unchanged, we need the best equipment, the best capability and the best friends," said Deputy Minister of National Defence Cezary Tomczyk.
“I have been sort of bludgeoned into being desensitized to [CRs] that go all the way to December in situations like this,” Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord said. “I would love to see it only go… ‘til right after the election. But I think that would surprise me if it didn't go straight to December.”
An Army official previously told Breaking Defense that a baseline HADES configuration will include moving target indication, high-end signals intelligence and other capabilities.
Anti-missile capabilities are just one aspect of more “robust” defenses needed for contested environments, which will also include sophisticated cyber attacks and electronic warfare.
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
The agency also plans to launch a new, discriminating space sensor around the 2029 timeframe, MDA Director Air Force Lt. Gen. Heath Collins said.
“Showing up with the right product too late is a losing strategy,” said Istari CEO Will Roper. “When I look at the world of technology that's so inspiring to me, they live by the gospel of speed.”
Denmark was also approved to potentially receive thousands of GPS guidance kits for 155mm shells.
The sale was approved by the Biden administration against the backdrop of the ongoing conflict in Gaza, and moved only after two key Democrats removed objections.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
The hefty pricetag comes in part due to the need to integrate US-specific requirements on planes already flown by American allies, the company and the Air Force have said.
The new Partnership for Indo-Pacific Industrial Resilience will “work through common acquisition and sustainment issues, whether it’s co-development, co-production [or] co-sustainment,” said Pentagon acquisition czar Bill LaPlante.
Anduril will "focus on building what we believe is the sort of supplementary capabilities that we can get quickly and we need to get quickly, which is autonomous systems and weapons of all classes," said Chief Strategy Officer Chris Brose.
The pricetag to put new engines on the decades-old bomber has jumped from $12.5 billion to $15 billion, while an effort to integrate a new radar has climbed to $3.3 billion from an original forecast of $2.3 billion, service officials revealed.