Breaking Defense

China has tripled its satellite fleet since 2018 as expansion continues: DIA

Defense Department selects Poland for new PAC-3 maintenance facility

The US, in partnership with Lockheed Martin, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, announced the new facility aimed at scaling and speeding up Patriot interceptor repairs.

By Carley Welch

Land Warfare, Pentagon

What’s haunting the Pentagon this Halloween?

Three special guests, and Mark, share a few frightening mysteries from their beats — from the dangers of war in space to the intricacies of upgrading America's nuclear weapons.

By Breaking Defense Video

A more flexible way to defend maneuver forces from drones that doesn’t tie them down

Short-range air defense that is designed to move and adapt regardless of vehicle.

By Breaking Defense

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Space

EXCLUSIVE: SpaceX given unique access to DoD space tracking data, sources say

Commercial space monitoring firms are concerned SpaceX's ability to use the best DoD data could threaten the market, sources tell Breaking Defense.

By Theresa Hitchens

In this episode:

Boeing’s victory caps a significant turnaround for its defense business
A report from western Ukraine on technology and life in wartime

Global

Syria looks to end foreign military presence, have sovereignty over all bases: President

Damascus “very soon will not have the necessity to have any military or foreign military presence, and I believe we can go through the relations, diplomatic relations, and respect with all the countries in the neighborhoods and the friends of Syria," President Ahmad al-Sharaa said.

By Agnes Helou

Global

UK launches first space squadron to ‘degrade and deny’ enemies

“No one wants a war in space. We are positioned to deter this,” said Harv Symth, UK Chief of the Air Staff.

By Tim Martin

Space

Air, Space Forces pick up research pace for orbital cargo delivery

The current focus is on low cost, high volume commercial cargo reentry pods, an Air Force Research Laboratory spokesperson told Breaking Defense.

By Theresa Hitchens

Announcement

Breaking Defense adds Mikayla Easley as additional editor, supporting continued growth

Mikayla Easley to join the world’s largest news organization dedicated to defense.

By Breaking Defense

Air Warfare

The future of European airpower might be unmanned

With one sixth-gen fighter program in Europe dead, could the future for European airpower be drones?

By Breaking Defense Video

Air Warfare

Fate of Air Force’s China Aerospace Studies Institute up in air

The China Aerospace Studies Institute will carry on by “leveraging assigned military service members to accomplish its objectives,” according to an Air Force spokesperson.

By Michael Marrow

Air Warfare

Australian MQ-4C Tritons, MC-55A Peregrines reach Initial Operational Capability

Attaining IOC for the RAAF's MQ-4Cs has “significantly strengthened its ability to deliver persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance effects across Australia’s primary area of military interest,” according to the announcement.

By Mike Yeo

Networks & Digital Warfare

Trump orders all US agencies to refer to AI as ‘super intelligence’

“From this point forward, all of United States documents, and hopefully the world, will be changed to use the much more accurate term ‘super,’ as opposed to ‘artificial,'" President Donald Trump said.

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Air Warfare

Aussie defense chief confirms missing F-35 parts, says none are ‘sensitive’

After parts reportedly made their way to Hong Kong, a Lockheed Martin spokesperson told Breaking Defense that the missing components “are unserviceable and deemed low risk for exploitation."

By Michael Marrow

Air Warfare

Trump signs Greenland security agreement, defusing allied tensions

After months of threats and geopolitical tension, analyst Rasmus Søndergaard told Breaking Defense that it looked like “worst outcomes have been averted."

By Tim Martin

Air Warfare, Land Warfare