Cummings fine-tunes Hellhound drone for Golden Dome mission
Cummings Aerospace has designed a larger version of its Hellhound to meet Golden Dome homeland missile defense needs.
By Jen Judson
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The Space Force can’t achieve space superiority on the cheap
Each military branch needs at least two things to succeed: a clear mission and a sufficient budget. The U.S. Space Force so far has only one of them.
By Shawn Barnes
Pentagon 2019 budget: Here's what the military wants to buy
President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2019 budget request includes planes, ships, trucks and many, many bombs.
By Tara Copp, AP
Air Force budget calls for more planes, drones — and a lot more bombs
The Air Force’s proposed budget for fiscal 2019 calls for increasing the number of F-35As, KC-46 tankers, MQ-9 Reapers, and rebuilding its stockpile of precision-guided munitions such as the Hellfire missile and Joint Directed Attack Munition.
French deal with Nexter, Texelis to provide ‘operational superiority’
Nexter and Texelis are to develop, produce and service Light VBMR troop carriers, of which more than 2,000 are to be built by 2030.
By Pierre Tran
Budget boost in hand, Pentagon skips cost-saving base closure request
The Pentagon is taking a break from BRAC.
By Joe Gould
Pentagon unveils $686 billion military budget for FY19
President Trump’s fiscal 2019 budget is requesting $686.1 billion in military funding, with a focus on great power competition with Russia and China.
US leads the world in 2017 aerospace and defense exports, says AIA report
America's aerospace and defense industry had another strong year in 2017, and China retained its status as the top purchaser of U.S. A&D products.
By Daniel Cebul
Israel Air Force says seized Iranian drone is a knockoff of US Sentinel
The Iranian drone that Israel intercepted over the weekend is a "copy" of a stealthy U.S.-built RQ-170 Sentinel UAV, according to a senior Israeli Air Force officer.
By Barbara Opall-Rome
This week in Congress: Onto the fiscal 2019 budget
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of Feb. 12.
A Pentagon budget like none before: $700 billion
It’s the biggest budget the Pentagon has ever seen: $700 billion. That’s far more in defense spending than America’s two nearest competitors, China and Russia, and will mean the military can foot the bill for thousands more troops, more training, more ships and a lot else.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
IOMAX may adapt its Archangel aircraft to patrol Asian coastlines
After seeing the demand for inexpensive maritime surveillance from Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia, signals intelligence specialist IOMAX is considering marketing a maritime surveillance version of its Archangel light-attack aircraft.
By Valerie Insinna