The chief of the US Navy defended the service’s plans to scrap nine relatively new warships in the coming fiscal year even as the service tries to keep up with China’s growing fleet.

Three of the Littoral Combat Ships slated for decommissioning are less than three years old.

Chief of Naval Op…

Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said on Tuesday that the aircraft carrier Liaoning of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy hosted more than 100 aircraft sorties within six days when recently conducting drills near Japan and the island of Taiwan, a figure that analysts said demonstra…

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III continued DOD’s close cooperation with the United Kingdom as he sat down for Pentagon talks with the UK’s Secretary of State for Defense Ben Wallace today.

The United States and United Kingdom have been in lockstep supporting Ukraine in its fight against t…

ISTANBUL — Turkey and Kazakhstan are set to start co-producing drones that were sold to the Central Asian just last year, a statement said Wednesday.

Anka, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), will be jointly produced by Turkish and Kazakh experts, according to a statement by the Turkish Aerospace…

The fiscal 2023 Defense Budget Request was built on the bones of the new National Defense Strategy, and the request is adequate for today’s military and ensures the military remains strong in the future, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III told the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee toda…

Pentagon officials are pushing Congress to tweak the annual defense policy bill on the current legislative docket in order to open up a path for cooperation on collaborative defense programs with the European Union (EU).

The amended language will include naming the EU and its administrative bodi…