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Boeing lost $565 million on its Air Force KC-46 tanker program in the last quarter of 2025, according to a Thursday earnings call, pushing the company’s total losses on the effort to roughly $8 billion.The loss on the Pegasus jet led to a $507 million loss for Boeing’s defense and space business in the fourth quarter, and a minus-0.5 percent operating margin for the full year, according to a press release. Boeing’s C-suite officials pointed to rising supply-chain costs and higher production support for the refueling aircraft—mainly tied to the 767 aircraft that is the basis of the KC-46s design—as…

The Hyunmoo-5 is the largest ballistic missile in South Korean service. It is designed to penetrate and destroy deep, underground, reinforced installations. (Korean Forces Network)South Korea has operationally deployed its Hyunmoo-5 ballistic missile, a key component of South Korea’s military deterrent to the threat from North Korea. Some reports suggest the Republic of Korea Army commenced fielding it late last year.Seoul has not indicated the number of Hyunmoo-5 systems it plans to induct, although government sources shared that fielding is to be completed by 2030.First publicly displayed in a parade in October 2024, the Hyunmoo-5 was developed under the direction…

Major military installations in the United States are unprotected from drone attacks, despite policies that mandate otherwise, a Pentagon watchdog report warns.The problem appears to be bureaucratic confusion over which bases should be covered, according to a Jan. 20 Department of Defense Inspector General report. The result is some startling lapses in counter-unmanned aerial system defenses, even at installations that have experienced multiple drone incursions.For example, Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, “where F-35 training takes place for 75 percent of the world’s F-35 pilots, is not designated as a covered facility or asset,” according to the report. RELATEDUnder Section 130i,…

United States and Bahraini forces conducted a live-fire counter-drone exercise in Bahrain on January 26, 2026, during which a U.S. mine-resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicle fired a Mobile-Low, Slow, Small-Unmanned Aircraft Integrated Defeat System (M-LIDS) interceptor at a fixed-wing aerial target, U.S. Central Command reported. The training event took place inside the U.S. Central Command […]

The top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Finance Committee are asking the Social Security Administration to elaborate on a recent court filing which stated that SSA doesn’t know the full extent of agency data accessed and shared by the Department of Government Efficiency.In a letter to SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano, Sens. Michael Crapo, R-Idaho, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked for a briefing on the recent court disclosure, writing that “we take very seriously the SSA’s stewardship of any personally identifiable information (PII) in its purview.”The government filed the disclosure, dated Jan. 16 and signed by a Justice Department official,…

January 27, 2026 – The Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD) Defense Procurement Directorate (DPD) has issued a multi-year order for air munitions manufactured by Elbit Systems, valued at approximately $183 million (NIS 570 million).  The agreement, signed by IMOD Director General Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amir Baram will expand Israel’s defense industrial base and strengthen the IDF’s capabilities for the immediate future and the challenging security decade ahead. This initiative is part of the strategic approach led by Defense Minister Israel Katz and the Ministry’s Director General. Defense Minister Israel Katz: “Expanding Israel’s defense industrial base is a top-tier security and…

In collaboration with the US Army’s 25th Infantry Division (25ID), CPE C3N, multiple US Army stakeholders and several industry partners including Raft and Accelint, Lockheed Martin has delivered and successfully demonstrated the first iteration of a Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype, the company announced on 23 January 2026. The demonstration took place during the 25ID’s ‘Lightning Surge 1’ exercise, which took place from 20 to 22 January at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. The 25ID is one of two US Army divisions selected to experiment with NGC2, which is the army’s effort to fundamentally change how digital mission command is conducted utilising a common data layer to provide a continuous…

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Leonardo Rheinmetall Military Vehicles (LRMV) has delivered the first four Lynx KF-41 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to the Italian Army. They were delivered on 27 January 2026 at the Italian Army’s Multifuncional Experimentation Centre in Montelibretti, just northeast of Rome. This first delivery marks the official launch of the Army Armoured Combat Systems (A2CS) programme, for which an initial contract for the acquisition of 21 new ‘A2CS Combat’ vehicles was signed at the end of last year. The ceremony was held in the presence of the Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto, the Chief of Staff of the Italian Army, General…

WASHINGTON — The Navy needs to jumpstart its F/A-XX stealth fighter program, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said today, because the rapid spread of advanced anti-aircraft systems means adversaries like Iran are increasingly able to shoot down the Navy’s current mainstay F-18s. “When things heated up in Iran, guess who steamed over there, right? It was the United States Navy and the [USS] Abraham Lincoln strike group,” Caudle said. “Imagine what that looks like in ten years from now, with a different Iran, with different capability [that] can go against the F-18 capabilities of today.” (It’s not clear…