Special Operations Forces Week 2025

Retired Colonel Troy Pananon knows just how big a toll Epic Fury is taking on the fleet, its maintainers, and aircrews.

The Pentagon needs to drastically accelerate its development and procurement cycle and giving more access to its best testing ranges will be key in doing that.

Even in lower-threat coastal areas, MANPADS are a real risk to lower-flying aircraft, and true air supremacy across Iran still isn’t a reality.

The Navy wants to spend less time prototyping and focus on fielding already mature uncrewed vessel designs, which contractors might operate.

Rejected proposals from the U.S. and Iran show how far off the parties are on any negotiated ceasefire.

Taking a less-orthodox approach to developing a new fighter means that Seoul’s KF-21 has made rapid progress.

The warp speed-like evolution of measures and countermeasures in Ukraine has forced the Army to change how quickly it gets new gear into the hands of its troops.

The ballooning threat from FPV drones pose a major risk to American aircraft parked on ramps in war zones and in the United States.

Test units will soon start experimenting with early M1E3 prototypes, with the Army now hoping production could kick off in 2027.

It remains unclear who is behind the incursions, which have occurred now at two bases in recent weeks, but concern is clearly elevated during a time of war.

New images of B-2s heading out on an Epic Fury sortie show two jets with prominent squares arranged along their leading edges.

With the Army putting its MV-75 tiltrotor on a blazingly fast track, troops are already getting experience on the aircraft before the first one is even delivered.

The F-35Cs, operating from land bases, look set to join a Marine combat capability that is about to balloon in size in the Middle East.

The Grizzly containerized launcher presents a readily deployable and discreet way to scatter Hellfire missile capability wherever it’s needed.

David Shank, former commandant of the Army’s Air Defense Artillery School, offers a frank assessment of how air defenses are performing against Iran.

For a time in the early 2000s, the Army looked poised to adopt a very different XM8 family of small arms.

The U.S. president says Tehran reached out to try to negotiate a deal, something that Iran has vehemently denied.

We’ve gotten our best look yet at new stealthy underwing tanks and sensor pods for the F-22, and the B-52’s new AGM-181 nuclear cruise missile.

After keeping a very low profile, a video has emerged apparently showing a Saab 340 airborne early warning and control aircraft over Ukraine.

With two Amphibious Ready Groups heading to the Middle East, there is increasing speculation that the U.S. will try to seize Iran’s strategic Kharg Island.

Bunker time, baby!