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Pentagon budget 2025: US Navy maintains course for surface shipbuilding programmes
The proposed US Navy (USN) fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget requests funding to continue proposed programmes for guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) and guided-missile frigates...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2025: US Navy looks to shore up amphibious ship fleet
The fiscal year (FY) 2025 US Navy (USN) budget request includes USD1.6 billion to buy one Flight II San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship (LPD), according to...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2025: MDA seeks USD182 million for counter-hypersonic capability
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has requested USD182 million in fiscal year (FY) 2025 “to continue development of Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) capability to address...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2025: US Navy requests USD16.6 billion to procure 75 aircraft and helicopters
The US Navy (USN) has requested USD16.6 billion in its fiscal year (FY) 2025 presidential budget request, intended to purchase 75 aircraft or helicopters, down from...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2025: US Navy continues Ford-class carrier funding, but programme slips indicated
The US Navy (USN) is requesting about USD1.9 billion in its fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget request to continue incremental funding of Ford-class aircraft carriers...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2025: Ukraine war informs US Army munitions, counter-drone requests
As the war in Ukraine highlights the need for deep magazines and counter unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS) capabilities, the US Army's latest budget request includes more...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2025: USN prioritises undersea programmes, but cuts Virginia-class submarine
Submarine acquisition programmes included in the proposed US Navy (USN) fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget underscore the importance of subsea operations for the service, with...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2025: MDA seeks USD2.526 billion for strategic missile defence
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is requesting approximately USD2.526 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2025 to improve its strategic missile defence system, known as the...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2025: MDA seeks USD639.9 million for THAAD
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has requested USD639.9million for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) programme in fiscal year (FY) 2025.Full story -
Pentagon budget 2025: US Air Force requests buying at least 90 aircraft and helicopters
The US Air Force's (USAF's) fiscal year (FY) 2025 presidential budget request includes the acquisition of at least 90 aircraft and hundreds of missiles.Full story -
Pentagon Budget 2025: USAF requests USD217.5 billion in FY 2025, up USD3 billion from FY 2024
The US Air Force (USAF) requested a total of USD217 billion in the fiscal year (FY) 2025 presidential budget request, up USD3 billion, or 1.6%, from the FY 2024 request....Full story -
Pentagon budget 2025: US Army hypersonic procurement more than quadruples
President Joe Biden's budget request for fiscal year 2025, unveiled on 11 March, includes about USD744 million in procurement for the US Army's delayed long range...Full story -
India approves fifth-generation AMCA fighter project
Development of India's Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) fifth-generation fighter aircraft programme is expected to accelerate in 2024 following New Delhi's...Full story -
DIMDEX 2024: Iran reveals details of airborne synthetic aperture radar
Iran displayed a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) that it has developed for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during the DIMDEX 2024 show held in Doha from 4 to 6 March.Full story -
Pakistan unveils Haider main battle tank
Pakistan's state-owned Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT) unveiled an “indigenously manufactured” Haider main battle tank (MBT) during a ‘rollout ceremony' on 6 March,...Full story -
South Korea increases funding for three-axis plan in 2024
South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has announced a business plan for 2024 aimed at driving developments in military capability and boosting...Full story -
US fleet commander cites need for more surface ships, better infrastructure for Arctic operations
The US Navy (USN) must deploy more surface ships to the Arctic, and the US needs to improve its overall infrastructure for naval operations in the region to meet threats...Full story -
Netherlands outlines plan to replace air-defence frigates
The Netherlands government has set out plans to acquire a new class of air-defence frigates and associated integrated air and missile defence (IAMD) capability to...Full story -
SDA, FAA developing Link 16 test plan for US airspace
The Pentagon's Space Development Agency (SDA) anticipates having a testing strategy in place by the end of 2024 to evaluate Link 16 connectivity across US airspace for...Full story -
NAVAIR clears V-22s for return to flight
US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), which manages the global Bell Boeing V-22 fleet, has cleared the tiltrotor to return to flight following a three-month grounding,...Full story