Project Freedom unlikely to pay off in Strait of Hormuz right away, analysts say
CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper told reporters today that six Iranian small boats were destroyed by US forces as the operation began.
Navy MQ-4C Triton suffers Class A mishap
It's unclear whether enemy fire shot down the aircraft, or if it suffered a mechanical problem.
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Winning the cognitive domain — A methodology built for democratic constraints
The challenge for Western democratic institutions is not a lack of capability — it is a structural one.
AFCENT awards Kraus Hamdani $270M for solar-powered, long-endurance drones
The K1000ULE broke endurance records with a three-day flight and has featured in multiple military exercises. “We’ve proven ourselves to the warfighter across multiple AORs,” Kraus Hamdani CEO Fatema Hamdani told Breaking Defense.
‘Of course’ Navy leader ‘concerned’ that Iran conflict diminishes US ability to deter China
“It's a mathematical certainty that if you consume a fixed resource, then your ability to bring that to bear on another problem set is diminished by the amount you subtract it,” Adm. Daryl Caudle said.
CENTCOM confirms six dead in tanker crash in Iraq, as Iran conflict approaches third week
“The incident occurred over friendly territory in Western Iraq while the crew was on a combat mission, and, again, was not the result … of hostile or friendly fire,” Gen. Dan Caine said today.
US military uses PrSM for first time in combat, says CENTCOM
In a social media post today CENTCOM said the missile provided “an unrivaled deep strike capability” against Iranian targets.
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Voyager is fortifying the U.S. Defense supply chain
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
‘Nightmare scenario’ for GCC countries, region as Iran unloads drones and missiles
“If Iranian attacks continue throughout this week, I would expect the Gulf Arab states to eventually participate in counter-attacks on Iran," one defense expert told Breaking Defense.
US launches air defense operations cell in Qatar with Gulf states
AFCENT commander Lt. Gen Derek France expected the new cell to strengthen integrated air and missile defenses throughout the region.
A look at the wish lists for CENTCOM, NORTHCOM, SOUTHCOM, INDOPACOM and STRATCOM
INDOPACOM had the biggest request of these five COCOMS, asking for nearly $12 billion in additional funding.
Pentagon names its picks for chiefs of CENTCOM, AFRICOM, SOCOM
Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, who pushed for unmanned and AI integration at US Fifth Fleet, would take the helm of US Central Command, should he be confirmed.
‘Success begets challenges’: NGA struggles to meet rising demand for Maven AI
“The number of detections are way up [and] the number of models that we have are way up, [but] with the same level of compute that you had in 2017,” said Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth. “It starts to slow down. We are already seeing evidence of that.”
After CENTOM experiments, Army seeks more rugged counter-drone lasers to put on vehicles
The Army is pushing for companies to integrate lasers on JLTVs, while eyeing a future where ground robots don the directed energy weapons.
Army tweaking new high-power microwave prototype before CENTCOM testing begins
“The system actually worked very well, but we had some, some additional work to do, from a suitability perspective,” Lt. Gen. Robert Rasch told Breaking Defense.
Flexing its muscles, Iran steps away from deniability in arming the Houthis: Analysts
New statements from Iran are "abandoning the fiction" that they are not supplying anti-ship ballistic missile technology, according to analysts.