Today, as previously discussed with the House of Representatives, the Ministry of Defense has requested a quote for four new submarines from three candidate shipyards. The candidate yards are Naval Group , Saab Kockums and ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems . They are expected to submit their bids around t…

PARIS — France and Germany are ready to move to the next phase of their flagship fighter jet project, rekindling Europe’s largest weapons programme and removing a key irritant in their bilateral relationship.

The two countries and two of the main companies involved, Airbus and Dassault Aviation…

The unity of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group is solid and the group is making great strides in getting the Ukraine military the capabilities it needs to defend the country, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said at the Pentagon today.

Austin and Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the…

New intelligence collected from downed Iranian drones in Ukraine shows that a majority of the aircrafts’ parts are manufactured by companies in the U.S., Europe and other allied nations, stoking concern among Western officials and analysts and prompting a U.S. government investigation, according to …

U.S. weapons are too complicated and costly to work

Pentagon weapons designers took a double-barreled shotgun blast to the gut last week. Both the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Budget Office peppered buckshot into the Defense Department’s hidebound buying bureaucra…

The White House has asked Congress to approve an additional $37.7 billion in aid for Ukraine. The package includes $21.7 billion in security assistance that would flow through the Pentagon, $14.5 billion for support from the State Department and USAID, $626 million for the Department of Energy to pr…