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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

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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

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.

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Land Warfare

Another Michigan auto firm enters defense industry as state tries to revive ‘Arsenal of Democracy’

JVIS is one of the latest Michigan-based automotive commercial companies to become involved in the defense sector.

By Carley Welch

Air Warfare, Opinion

How the F-15 and F-22 should inform the F-47’s procurement

Budgetary lessons from the two legacy aircraft can help the Air Force anticipate hard choices for the new F-47, one analyst argues.

By Casey Nicastro

Networks & Digital Warfare

How the Pentagon wants to buy cyber outcomes, not equipment

The Pentagon has been exploring a new paradigm dubbed Cyber Effects-as-a-Service, aiming to purchase specific outcomes as opposed to bespoke capabilities.

By Mark Pomerleau

Congress

2026 midterm cheat sheet: Which races to watch on defense

With pollsters predicting that Democrats will flip one or both chambers of Congress, there could be major changes to the roster of defense advocates on Capitol Hill.

By Valerie Insinna

Air Warfare

USAF should buy newly designed air refuelers to meet China threat: Report

Although there’s a “temptation” to keep buying KC-46s, a plan to procure 75 more of the Boeing-made tankers should be an “upper limit” followed by a new, longer range tanker, the Hudson Institute’s Timothy Walton told Breaking Defense.

By Michael Marrow

Land Warfare

Helsing rolls out Contra air defense design, plus two new inteceptors

The company claims the Contra system can track and engage “hundreds or thousands of drone and missile threats at the same time.”

By Aaron Mehta

Naval Warfare

Cyprus to acquire new offshore patrol vessel with ‘advanced’ naval systems from Israel

The new patrol vessel will be built by Israel Shipyards and "support expanded patrol, surveillance, and search-and-rescue missions," according to Israel's Ministry of Defense.

By Seth J. Frantzman

Naval Warfare

EXCLUSIVE: SOUTHCOM chief seeks unmanned river solution as he embraces autonomy

In an interview with Breaking Defense, Gen. Francis Donovan said autonomous systems are “not just for testing anymore” but “taking the fight to the enemy.”

By Wilder Alejandro Sanchez

Land Warfare, Pentagon

Is the Pentagon’s demand signal for drones working? It depends on who you ask.

“There's a lot of positive signaling, but we need to see the whites of the eyes: We need to see sustained, normalized demand,” said James Slider, CEO of Performance Drone Works.

By Ashley Roque

Global

Unmanned systems take center stage at Turkish Ateş Serbest military demonstration

The highlight of the exercise may have been the Turkish military showing off a new drone for the first time: Turkish Aerospace Industries’ Ayaz, a turbojet-powered one-way attack unmanned aerial vehicle.

By Agnes Helou

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