An additional $800 million drawdown package of security assistance is on its way to Ukraine. Efforts to get the newly authorized equipment and supplies to the Ukrainian military will begin immediately, said Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby.

“As you’ve seen go in the past, from the time the…

TOKYO — Italian Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini expressed interest in the possibility of his country joining the development of the successor to the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force’s F-2 fighter jets during talks with his Japanese counterpart, Nobuo Kish.

Meeting at the Japanese Defense Minist…

The J-20, China’s most powerful, domestically-developed stealth fighter jet, has started to patrol the East China Sea and the South China Sea in routine training sessions, and experts said on Wednesday that the move will enable the advanced warplane to better safeguard China’s airspace security and …

PARIS — Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, spoke on Wednesday April 13, 2022 by telephone with her Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksiy Reznikov.

The latter presented the military situation on the ground. He notably underlined that, faced with Ukrainian resistance, Russian forces had res…

ARLINGTON, Va. — The ground-based laser system homed in on the red drone flying by, shooting a high-energy beam invisible to the naked eye. Suddenly, a fiery orange glow flared on the drone, smoke poured from its engine and a parachute opened as the craft tumbled downward, disabled by the laser be…

Pentagon Spokesman Eric Pahon provided the following readout:

Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen H. Hicks; Mr. Andrew Hunter, Performing the Duties of Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment; and other senior Department of Defense leaders held a classified meeting with the…