A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report has warned the US Air Force’s GBU-53 StormBreaker, better known as the Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB), has suffered almost a year’s delay thanks to a problem discovered with the gliding bomb’s folding wings.

The slim SDB is a 204-pound munition fitted…

In cooperation with the Estonian government and in support of our Baltic region allies and partner nations, U.S. Air Forces in Europe has temporarily relocated MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft, personnel and support equipment assigned to the 52nd Expeditionary Operations Group Detachment 2 to A…

In late February 2020, at least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike in Syria’s Idlib province which Ankara blamed on the government of President Bashar al-Assad, although many suspected that it was in fact carried out by Russian forces. At the time, those monitoring events in Syria fear…

TUCSON, Ariz. — Raytheon Missiles & Defense completed the first guided release of a StormBreaker smart weapon from an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, which will become the second fighter jet to add the weapon when the program reaches initial operational capability later this year.

The US Air Force’s n…

PARIS — Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, welcomed the delivery of the first three Systèmes de mini-drones de reconnaissance (mini-drone reconnaissance systems, SMDR) by the Directorate General of Armament (DGA):

“Our strategy provides for the strengthening of key functions such as…

Drone assaults, torpedo attacks, plucking casualties from the water, and taking on supplies from unusual ships – on the go, in narrow waters – have marked the opening stage of the biggest war game in the Baltic this year.

NATO’s Baltops enters its second week today after a demanding opening stage…