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‘The administration’s commitment to reconciliation is what led the DoD to be so confident in putting so many capabilities in the bill,” a defense official said.
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Mach Industries’ new-generation Viper drone-missile captured the attention of defense analysts worldwide
The U.S. Department of Defence will significantly reduce its funding for the development of the F/A-XX sixth generation fighter for the U.S. Navy, with a senior U.S. military official confirming that under the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2026 the program “will maintain minimal development funding to preserve the ability to leverage F-47 work while preventing over-subscription of qualified defence industrial base engineers.
For nearly eight decades, the U.S. innovation ecosystem has been underpinned by a deliberately decentralized model of federal research support. Rooted in the vision laid out by Vannevar Bush in Science, The Endless Frontier, the model rests on a simple but profound premise: sustained public investment in basic research fuels private sector dynamism and long-term national competitiveness.
In the aftermath of the ceasefire that suspended Iranian-Israeli hostilities, new details have emerged regarding the extent of the damage caused by sustained Iranian ballistic missile attacks against Israeli targets. Although the Israeli government imposed strict censorship on reporting or publishing footage of the missile attacks, a growing number of strongly corroborating sources have indicated that the fallout form the attacks has far exceeded prior Western and Israeli expectations.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have increasingly singled out components of the Russian S-400 long range surface-to-air missile system for targeting, as part of concerted efforts to cripple the backbone of the country’s air defence capabilities. Examples of successful attacks have included a November 23 ATACMS missile strike which
War on the Rocks is launching a new show called “The Iran Reckoning with Afshon Ostovar.” It’s a members-only show but this first episode is free for all. Join us as renowned Iran scholar Afshon Ostovar takes you inside one of America’s most complex and consequential adversaries. In this episode, Ryan introduces you to Afshon and his background (about the first 20 minutes) before discussing the ongoing war between Iran on one side and Israel and the United States on the other, and the unstable ceasefire that we currently find ourselves in. The Air Force wants to spend $387.1 million in fiscal 2026 to acquire its first hypersonic missile known as the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), according to budget documents published Thursday. The Pentagon’s budget request for fiscal 2026 prioritizes major near-term investments in a wide variety of uncrewed systems and counter-drone capabilities, senior defense and military officials told reporters.
While available documents did not detail how many ARRW missiles the Air Force intends to buy, the request officially transitions the hypersonic weapon from its troubled development and testing phase and into formal procurement and production. The move comes after the Air Force considered cancelling the program last year after it completed its rapid prototyping effort in August 2024.
Detailed budget materials are being released on a rolling basis this week, but the officials provided insights into the nearly $1 trillion spending plan in an off-camera press briefing Thursday morning.
“This budget is the first year that we are calling out — specifically — our autonomy line in its own section. So, it will be $13.