PARIS — The Spanish Council of Ministers on Tuesday approved a new €646 million defense acquisition package that includes the upgrading of several aircraft systems as well as the acquisition of missiles and ammunition.

— AIM-120-C7 missiles: €200 million
The Council of Ministers has authorize…

An additional 10,000 artillery rounds will be provided by the UK to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s illegal invasion, the Defence Secretary has announced on a visit to Norway.

The rounds will enhance Ukraine’s defensive capability and come as the first delivery of Sea King helicopters…

MANAMA, Bahrain — A U.S. Navy lab in Bahrain has confirmed Iran’s connection to a Nov. 15 aerial drone attack on a Liberian-flagged commercial tanker transiting international waters in the Middle East.

Two U.S. Navy explosive ordnance technicians boarded M/T Pacific Zircon, Nov. 16, to assess t…

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Boeing’s High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability, or HAAWC, has satisfied all requirements for initial operational capability status from the U.S. Navy.

The all-weather HAAWC enables the Boeing P-8A Poseidon to deploy MK 54 torpedoes from near or below its crui…

Over the next five years, the U.S. Space Force plans to spend $100 billion on acquisition programs. Procurement only accounts for 23.1 percent of that total, while the majority of the U.S. Space Force’s acquisition budget is dedicated to research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) appropriat…

The Russian Federation’s use of Iranian-manufactured uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Ukraine represents a notable development in the evolution of the conflict. Conflict Armament Research (CAR) investigators physically documented a number of these UAVs in Ukraine in November 2022 and are conductin…