Defense Systems

The Air Force’s F-47 fighter jet will fly some 70 percent farther without refueling than today’s F-22s, allowing tankers to stay farther from the fray—a key advantage in a potential Pacific conflict. The planned sixth-generation…

The wildly ambitious Golden Dome missile-defense vision is turning up the heat on a long-running fight between the Pentagon and the telecommunications industry for control of certain radio frequencies.“That area of the spectrum is golden,…

TAMPA, Florida—At least part of the public's fascination with special operations forces concerns the cutting-edge gear they use. Some of it gets its start at the SOF Week conference here, where operators peruse state-of-the-art products and…

The Army has said for years that it wants to cancel unwanted programs and quickly shift both funding and attention when new threats require new capabilities. Last week, the defense secretary tasked the service with axing a handful of…

If small drones are critical to the Army’s future fight, what happens when you run out of batteries?That’s one of the questions the 10th Mountain Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team tackled during a recent rotation at the Joint Multinational…

Updated: 3:36 p.m. ET.The Air Force has started ground-testing its prototype robot wingmen ahead of their first flight this summer, the service announced today.The tests of the collaborative combat aircraft will focus on “propulsion…

The U.S. military’s fleet of V-22 Ospreys won’t be able to fly without restrictions until 2026—about a year later than originally planned—as officials work to upgrade flawed gearboxes that have caused several mishaps.The military put…

The Army has rolled out a generative AI workspace where users can apply large language models to daily tasks and boost productivity. But using AI tools requires a lot of compute power and storage. So the service has also been working to…

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its OpenAI-enabled Azure offerings will be available to more of the federal workforce through a new Defense Information Systems Agency authorization that marks the service as approved across all…

What’s better than being able to launch satellites quickly to orbit? Having them there already—or so goes the thinking behind a new $60 million Space Force contract to develop an “orbital carrier.”Gravitics received a Strategic Funding…