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Posted on Apr 20, 2020

The Navy Tried To Retire Its Two Huge COVID-19 Fighting Hospital Ships Two Years Ago

Updated on Mar 31, 2020

New Report On The Navy’s Troubled Ford Class Aircraft Carrier Is Literally The Shits

Updated on Mar 24, 2020

KC-10

General Warns Of Aerial Tanker Shortage As Air Force Looks To Retire 13 KC-135s And 16 KC-10s

Updated on Feb 25, 2020

Here Is What Each Of The Pentagon’s Air-Launched Missiles And Bombs Actually Cost

Updated on Feb 19, 2020

America’s Elite Special Operators Want A Huge Mock Enemy Bunker Complex To Train In

Updated on Feb 14, 2020

The USS Seawolf (SSN-575), one of three Navy "hunter killer" submarines.

Nuclear Attack Submarines (SSNs)

The Navy Wants Money To Get Started On Its Future SSN(X) Attack Submarine

Posted on Feb 11, 2020

Congress Pushes Back On Stunning Navy Plan To Cut Destroyers, Cruisers, Subs, And More

Posted on Dec 26, 2019

White House Asks Navy To Include New Unmanned Vessels In Its Ambitious 355 Ship Fleet Plan

Updated on Jan 19, 2020

U.S. Space Force

Space Force Looks Go For Launch But Questions Remain About How It Will ‘Dogfight In Space’

Posted on Dec 10, 2019

Ghost Fleet Overlord Program

The Navy Is Backing Away From Its 355-Ship Plan, Has Invested Too Much In Too Few Hulls

Updated on Dec 20, 2019

B-21

Former Top U.S. Defense Official Questions B-21 Schedule As Air Force Hedges Timeline

Posted on Oct 25, 2019

Top Navy Official Lashes Out Over Troubled New Carrier That May Not Be Ready Until 2024 Now

Updated on Oct 24, 2019

F-35

Here’s The Air Force’s Questionably Ambitious Plan To Develop New Fighters In Five Years

Posted on Sep 17, 2019

Germany

Upgrades Needed For Sustained F-22 Operations During A Crisis In Europe Axed For Border Wall

Updated on Sep 6, 2019

F-35

U.S. F-35s Won’t Hit 80 Percent Mission Capable Goal Amid Spare Parts Supply Problems

Updated on Jul 18, 2019

Turkey

Pentagon Will Raid F-35 Spare Parts Budget To Help Pay For Kicking Turkey Out Of The Program

Posted on Jul 11, 2019

Navy May Slow Aviation Ops Due To Budget Shortfall As It Ground Super Hornet Demo Team

Posted on Jun 28, 2019

Congressional Meddling Could Begin To Sink The Navy’s Frigate Program

Updated on Jun 20, 2019

Russia

Russia Now Claims It Will Buy 76 Su-57 Advanced Fighter Jets By 2028

Posted on May 16, 2019

USMC’s CH-53K King Stallion’s Woes Have Put It In A Duel With The CH-47 Chinook

Updated on May 8, 2019

Trump “Orders” Navy To Keep Supercarrier USS Truman That His Own Budget Asked To Retire

Updated on Jul 8, 2019

Behold America’s New And Desperately Needed Heavy Icebreaker

Posted on Apr 25, 2019

Here Is The Navy’s Ultra Ambitious New Plan To Get To 355 Ships In Just 15 Years

Updated on Jun 11, 2019

Marines To Finally Add 30mm Cannon To Bolt-On “Harvest Hawk” Armament Kits For KC-130Js

Posted on Mar 21, 2019

The Navy’s “Operational” F-35C Is Fully Mission Capable Less Than Five Percent Of The Time

Updated on Mar 20, 2019

Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC)

The USAF’s Plans To Buy Six Aircraft As Part Of Its Never Ending Light Attack Experiment

Updated on Mar 13, 2019

Marines Lay Out Plans For Their Own MQ-9 Reaper Drone Force In New Budget Request

Posted on Mar 13, 2019

Navy’s Budget Requests Two Huge Missile-Laden Drone Ships That Displace 2,000 Tons

Posted on Mar 12, 2019

The Puzzling Case Of The Navy’s Attempt To Retire Supercarrier USS Harry S. Truman Early

Updated on Jul 8, 2019

The Navy Has Dozens More MH-60R Helicopters Than It Needs Due To LCS Debacle

Updated on May 11, 2021

Iron Dome

The Army Wants Israel’s Iron Dome Missile System To Swat Down Cruise Missiles

Posted on Jan 22, 2019

Russia

Putin Announces Early ‘New Years Gift’ Of Successful Hypersonic Glide Vehicle Test (Updated)

Updated on Dec 26, 2018

U.S. Space Force

Failure To Launch? Pentagon’s Space Force Plan Could Hamstring The New Service’s Leadership

Updated on Dec 21, 2018

Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC)

USAF Command Behind Light Attack Aircraft Program Now Says It May Never Fly Those Planes

Posted on Dec 11, 2018

Australia

Canadian Auditors Slam Surplus Aussie Hornet Buy, Describe Fighter Force In Collapse

Updated on May 8, 2019

Navy Attack Subs Lost More Than Two Decades Worth Of Operational Time To Maintenance Delays

Updated on Nov 20, 2018

Star Wars: DOD Execs and the USAF Are Already Battling Over A Non-Existent Space Force Budget

Updated on Nov 16, 2018

A-10

What’s To Come Of The A-10 Now That It Has Lost Its Loudest Defenders In Congress?

Updated on Nov 15, 2018

Ohio Class (SSGN variant)

Navy Plans For ‘Large Payload Subs’ Based On New Columbia Class To Take On SSGN Role And More

Updated on Nov 21, 2019

U.S. Navy Wants Aggressor Submarine Unit To Mimic Russian and Chinese Subs In Training

Updated on Aug 14, 2020

F-22

USAF Had Faulty Data About Whether Hangars Full of F-22s Could Survive Hurricane Michael

Updated on Oct 31, 2018

Europe

Belgium Decides To Join The F-35 Club Over Competing Offers For European Fighter Jets

Posted on Oct 25, 2018

USS Jimmy Carter

Navy Wants New ‘Seawolf-Like’ Attack Submarines To Challenge Russian And Chinese Threats

Updated on Oct 22, 2018

United Kingdom

U.K. Could Hand Deal Straight To Boeing For New Royal Air Force E-7 Radar Planes

Updated on Oct 3, 2018

Amphibious Vehicles

USMC Cancels Upgrades For Amphibious Vehicles With Replacements Still Years Away

Posted on Sep 25, 2018

SpaceX Exec Says Company Would Launch A Weapon Into Space In ‘Defense Of This Country’

Updated on Sep 21, 2018

Here’s Why The USAF’s Top Civilian Says It Will Take Nearly $13B To Do Space Force Right

Posted on Sep 18, 2018

The U.S., Canada and Finland announced a plan to create an icebreaker shipbuilding program to compete with China and Russia.

U.S. Coast Guard

Watchdog Warns The Coast Guard To Get Real About Its Plans To Field Critical New Icebreakers

Posted on Sep 6, 2018

B-52

Air Force Offers First Details Of Future Plans For An Upgraded B-52J Bomber

Updated on Aug 28, 2018

The Air Force Says It Might Only Buy 20 Light Attack Aircraft In The End

Posted on Aug 22, 2018

USAF Hands Lockheed Billions For New Warning Satellites Amid Rush For More Space Sensors

Posted on Aug 15, 2018

U.S. Army

The Army’s Futuristic ‘Punisher’ Grenade Launcher Is Officially Dead, But It Could Rise Again

Updated on Aug 14, 2018

Columbia Class

Sloppy Welding On Launch Tubes For The Navy’s New Missile Sub Could Point To Larger Problems

Posted on Aug 7, 2018

USAF Reveals Timeline For Buying Light Attack Aircraft It Now Says It Needed Decades Ago

Posted on Aug 6, 2018

Russia

Russia Can’t Afford Its New T-14 Armata Tanks, Turns To Updated Older Designs Instead

Posted on Aug 2, 2018

Congress Set To Put the Brakes On Marine Plans To Buy More Of Its Popular M27 Rifles

Posted on Jul 26, 2018

Early Warning/DSP/SBIRS

Congress Demands Space-Based Missile Defense Weapons and Sensors No Matter What

Updated on Jul 1, 2019

Air Force One

USAF Offers New Details About New Air Force Ones, But Doesn’t Back Up Trump’s Cost-Cutting Claims

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jul 24, 2018

Russia

No, Russia’s Su-57 Stealth Fighter Program Isn’t Dead, At Least Not Yet

Updated on Jul 19, 2018

Europe

Oops! The Spanish Navy Is Constructing New Submarines That Are Too Big For Their Pens

Updated on Jul 18, 2018

Germany

German Navy’s Woes Continue With Its Pair of Ex-Liberian Tankers Stuck Broken In Port

Updated on Jul 10, 2018

Air Force Says It Might Have The Data It Needs From Its Light Attack Experiment After All