Defense One

ORLANDO, Fla.—It took some adjustment to nestle the heel of the M4 rifle in the pocket of my shoulder. I lined up the iron sights with the bullseye and squeezed the trigger three times in quick succession. The rifle bucked and the…

The U.S. government should be more like China when it comes to regulating space launches, the president and chief operating officer of SpaceX said Tuesday. “I do think we need to rethink very quickly the regulatory regime for space…

The United States has sent more than $59 billion in security assistance to help Ukraine beat back Russia’s invasion, a senior defense official told reporters Tuesday, and there’s several billion more likely to be sent during President Joe…

The Navy never wanted to modernize its Ticonderoga guided-missile cruisers, preferring to spend the money on newer ships and technology. But lawmakers balked at losing hulls and missile tubes, and ordered the service to refit some of its…

Russian general dead in MoscowThe general in charge of Russia’s nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons was killed outside his apartment building in Moscow on Tuesday. His name was Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, and he reportedly perished along…

President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he will push Ukraine’s president to negotiate with Russia for a ceasefire after he takes office next month. But just days earlier, a Ukrainian lawmaker told reporters in Washington, D.C., that a…

A number of U.S. military commands failed to keep a complete and accurate inventory of mobile devices used to store and transmit classified information, according to a heavily redacted Defense Department oversight report.The findings from…

The Ukraine conflict is more than a distant spectacle to China’s People’s Liberation Army; it offers a real-time battlefield laboratory to study for its own strategic needs. From drone swarms to electronic warfare, its lessons are…

The Marine Corps is pouring $269 million into a secretive project to upgrade the service’s tactical systems to better integrate across agencies, and another $715 million to design and test its new littoral warfighting systems.The two…

While Syria is shifting to new management, Israel is attacking the country’s arsenals and infrastructure. On Monday, military jets struck former air defense sites and missile warehouses along the country’s western coast in the early morning…