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Navy to begin constructing 2 ‘Trump class’ battleships

Defense News - 23:33 Dec 22, 2025

"The U.S. Navy will lead the design of these ships," the president said Monday, "along with me because I’m a very aesthetic person."

Tags: Navy
DOD needs more consistent Indo-Pacific deterrence funding, GAO says

Defense News - 22:28 Dec 22, 2025

An annual assessment of how DOD funds deterrence efforts in the Indo-Pacific revealed problematic inconsistencies, according to a GAO report.

Tags: Indo-Pacific
Pentagon counter-drone task force plans Golden Dome link

Defense News - 19:40 Dec 22, 2025

Data sharing between the Joint Interagency Task Force 401 and the Golden Dome project will focus on larger drones, Brig. Gen. Matt Ross said.

Tags: Golden Dome
Sweden hastens Gripen deep-strike punch with Taurus missiles

Defense News - 07:00 Dec 22, 2025

Sweden's air chief now expects Taurus integration "considerably earlier than previously planned," he said in an interview with Defense News.

Tags: Taurus
Jordan says its air force joined US strikes on Islamic State in Syria

Defense News - 19:45 Dec 20, 2025

Jordan confirmed that its air force took part in strikes launched by the United States on Islamic State group targets in Syria.

Tags: Islamic State Jordan Syria
Pentagon fails financial audit for 8th year in a row

Defense News - 22:54 Dec 19, 2025

DOD is the only one of the government’s 24 major agencies never to pass.
Radar, other upgrades planned for experimental US Air Force AI fighter

Defense News - 19:11 Dec 19, 2025

Raytheon was awarded a contract from the Air Force to put its air-cooled, compact PhantomStrike fire control radar into the X-62 as part of its upgrades.

Tags: Air Force
US Navy to develop new class of smaller, more ‘agile’ combatant ships

Defense News - 15:03 Dec 19, 2025

The first hull is expected to hit the water in 2028 as a more nimble companion to the Navy’s larger warships, Navy Secretary John Phelan said.

Tags: Navy
Lukashenko: Russian nuclear-capable Oreshnik missiles now in Belarus

Defense News - 12:16 Dec 19, 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that the Oreshnik will enter combat duty this month but didn’t give any other details.

Tags: Oreshnik
Navy launches suicide drone from ship at sea for first time

Defense News - 01:04 Dec 19, 2025

A LUCAS drone was successfully launched from the flight deck of the USS Santa Barbara, a littoral combat ship currently operating in the Arabian Gulf.
Winning the long game: Sustaining sea power as our enduring advantage

Defense News - 15:10 Dec 18, 2025

"America does not want a fair fight — we want a fleet so capable, so ready and so forward that the fight never begins," CNO Adm. Daryl Caudle argues.
Turkish defense ministry describes tricky shoot-down of wayward drone

Defense News - 15:08 Dec 18, 2025

The Turkish armed forces have previously had to neutralize unmanned surface vessels and drifting sea mines arriving from across the Black Sea.
How a US-led peace plan in Ukraine is reshaping global alliances

Defense News - 14:18 Dec 18, 2025

The latest on U.S.-led Ukraine peace talks — and how leaks, deadlines and shifting drafts are already reshaping battlefield planning.

Tags: Ukraine
Denmark buys Kongsberg missile systems to defend strategic coastlines

Defense News - 13:54 Dec 18, 2025

Denmark controls some of Europe’s most strategically important maritime choke points, including access to the Baltic Sea via the Danish Straits.

Tags: Denmark
US preps massive weapons package for Taiwan valued at over $10 billion

Defense News - 12:25 Dec 18, 2025

China’s Foreign Ministry attacked the move, saying it would violate diplomatic agreements between China and the United States.
EU flagship defense R&D in 2026 covers hypersonic defense, future tank

Defense News - 11:26 Dec 18, 2025

The bloc's research strategy, backed by €1 billion, includes a secret project aimed at testing a hypersonic glide vehicle demonstrator.
Germany to spend almost $60 billion in latest military funding package

Defense News - 10:15 Dec 18, 2025

One of the envisioned projects is a satellite-based reconnaissance suite for detecting hostile activity near Germany's deployed brigade in Lithuania.
Senate passes major policy bill authorizing $900 billion for Pentagon

Defense News - 20:12 Dec 17, 2025

The National Defense Authorization Act now heads to the desk of President Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it.
Germany to increase Arrow 3 interceptor and launcher deal with Israel

Defense News - 19:06 Dec 17, 2025

Germany will sign an expansion of its Arrow 3 interceptors and launchers deal with Israel by $3.1 billion Thursday, the Israeli Defense Ministry says.

Tags: Arrow Israel Germany
CNO dishes on sailor wellbeing, US Navy success in era of competition

Defense News - 17:43 Dec 17, 2025

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle sat down with Military Times to discuss his ambitions for maritime dominance in 2026 and beyond.

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