Since June 2021, elements of the United States Air Force have announced intentions to pursue several new major programs. Each of the programs would likely be of congressional interest on their own, but they are more unusual in aggregate, for at least three reasons:

— The programs were announced …

WASHINGTON — The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of France of MQ-9 Follow-on Contractor Logistics Support and related equipment for an estimated cost of $300 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the requ…

MARIGNANE, France — The French Armament General Directorate (DGA) has signed a contract, on behalf of the Ministry of Interior, for the procurement and maintenance of 10 H160s in a law enforcement configuration for the Gendarmerie Nationale.

Linked to the contract for the procurement of 169 H1…

The US said it has no plans to cut troop numbers in Eastern Europe to defuse tensions with Russia. Top diplomat Antony Blinken said Russia is pushing a “false narrative” to justify troop deployments on Ukraine’s border.

Ukrainian soldiers have been monitoring pro-Russian separatists in the countr…

LONDON — UK Chief of Defense Staff Tony Radakin has announced his country’s plans to develop hypersonic missiles to compete with Russia’s growing military strength.
“We haven’t [got them] and we must have,” Radakin told the Times newspaper on late Friday.

He expressed concern over the escalati…

J-20 stealth fighter jets affiliated with multiple Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force units started the year with intensive mock combat training sessions against other types of warplanes including the J-11B and the J-16, with many details revealed by official media reports displaying t…