The White House also wants to shift $2.5 billion in reconciliation dollars provided by the One Big Beautiful Bill to pay ...

Vice Adm. Richard Correll said that Trump's announcement does not necessarily mean detonating a test weapon — noting that neither China nor Russia has conducted a nuclear explosive test in recent ...

Ashley Roque covers land warfare and Pentagon leadership for Breaking Defense. Over the past two decades, she’s reported on defense, US politics, and foreign policy for publications inside and outside ...

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During a 2025 subcommittee hearing, Slotkin addressed DoD command about the intensifying pace and nature of special operations, saying “as someone who was a CIA officer and a Middle East specialist ...

The study notes that NC3 is one of the least understood of the many parts that make up the US nuclear weapons architecture, in part because of the high levels of secrecy that surround it. Thus, it is ...

Robbin Laird visited Italy's International Flight Training School in Sardinia at Decimomannu Airbase to see how it approaches training aviators for modern combat.

RTX will provide autonomy capabilities for General Atomics’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft offering dubbed the YFQ-42A, while Shield AI will supply the autonomy pilot for Anduril’s YFQ-44A, a source ...

The Defense Innovation Unit will now conduct an annual competition for sUAS and quadcopters to either stay on the Blue List or be added to it, Blue UAS Project Lead Trent Emeneker told Breaking ...