The next year will start to feel the shadow of 2027 — the year by which the US says Chinese President Xi Jinping has said he wants to have the ability to execute an armed takeover of Taiwan.

WASHINGTON— No one could predict the twists and turns of the first Trump administration, even for an area as obscure and mundane as the defense industrial base, and it would be a fool’s errand ...

This article is one of many in a series in which Breaking Defense reporters look back on the most significant (and ...

The Chinese military itself wasn't free from drama, as Beijing cycled through defense ministers and senior officials fell ...

This December, after 16 months of studies and experiments, the Department of Defense decided it had figured out enough guardrails for generative AI to start embracing the new technology wholesale.

Ship counts were clearly on the mind of US Navy officials this year as they made numerous plays to bolster the fleet in novel ...

WASHINGTON — The Army is cleared to proceed building out its new spy plane with the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), after the government watchdog agency denied L3Harris’s contract protest.

BEIRUT — Turkish firm Baykar has been approved by the Italian government to buy Italian aviation giant Piaggio Aerospace in a move that the company says will expand its reach in the European Union.

This was supposed to be the year that the Air Force selected a winning vendor to build its next-gen fighter. Then reality set in.

The US national security establishment is cautiously embracing generative AI, so Breaking Defense decided to do an experiment.