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Pentagon budget 2025: US Navy seeks more funding for unmanned vessels
The proposed fiscal year (FY) 2025 US Navy (USN) budget includes USD172.2 million to develop enabling capabilities and critical technologies for unmanned surface vessels...Full story -
HAL to produce engines for Indian Air Force MiG-29s
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has been contracted to deliver over 100 Klimov RD-33 engines for the Indian Air Force's (IAF's) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 force.Full story -
India test-fires multiple warhead variants of Agni V missile
India's state-owned Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) test-fired the Agni V intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) equipped with multiple...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2025: US Coast Guard funding request reflects slight decrease
The US Coast Guard (USCG) fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget request of about USD13.8 billion represents a slight decrease from the USD13.9 billion FY 2024 amount, annualised...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2025: US Air Force requests to divest 250 aircraft
The US Air Force (USAF) is requesting to retire 250 aircraft in fiscal year (FY) 2025 as the service attempts to shed older aircraft to gear up for future purchases.Full story -
Pentagon budget 2025: US Navy continues F-35 investments, but rephases F/A-XX
The fiscal year (FY) 2025 US Navy (USN) budget requests include USD16.2 billion for the procurement of 75 aircraft, modifications, spares, and support equipment,...Full story -
Pentagon budget 2025: Aegis BMD cut slightly in USN request
The Department of Defense is requesting about USD1.3 billion for sea-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) in its proposed fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget, compared...Full story -
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