The Voyager is equipped to conduct persistent coastal surveillance and nearshore mapping missions while remaining at sea for roughly 100 days at a time.

This week on The Break Out, a Seahawk drone is set to join aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, and a legendary aircraft took its final flight.

New Zealand could receive five Lockheed Martin MH-60R Seahawk helicopters as well as airborne low-frequency sonars.

At 100 years old, Korean War Veteran Catherine Alessandri shows how a century of service can shape history and inspire generations that follow.

The Navy updated the price ceiling to $2.7 billion in May, up from roughly $1.8 billion.

El evento será en reconocimiento y homenaje a la vida de Ismael Guadalupe Ortíz como defensor de la justicia, los derechos humanos, y las causas fundamentales para el bienestar y la paz

“Whatever the number is [for the BBG(X) program], I’m going to give you right one of the surest fire Kalshi bets you will ever have: Take the over,” said Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash.

Experts said that this deployment could lay the foundation for how the Navy develops its concept of operations for unmanned systems.

The Marine Corps is moving through its Tactical Aircraft Transition Plan as it plans to fully adopt fifth-generation aircraft across the entire fleet.

In our final video looking at manned-unmanned teaming, we consider likely changes ahead for defense manufacturers as the US increasingly partners with drones in combat.

Leidos, HII, and Saronic Technologies are among those selected to advance to the at-sea testing phase.

“Norway’s action has created more than just a bilateral contract dispute. It raises a deeply troubling question about whether international agreement and strategic partnership can still be trusted at all,” Malaysian Defense Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin said at the Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore.

Australia will now forgo the purchase of a new build Virginia-class submarine and acquire another ex-US Navy boat instead.

Donald Trump said he will make a “final determination” regarding Iran, in a strange announcement Friday that laid out his ideals for a potential peace plan.

The pitch requires Iran to “never” have a nuclear weapon and demands the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz with “no tolls” and the termination or removal of “all water mines.”

“Ships caught in the Strait due to our amazing and…

“The fact is, no one spends $1.85 billion studying something. That money is there for procurement of assets,” an OMB official told Breaking Defense in an interview.

Austal USA announced in February that Gene Miller was serving as interim president.

A recent award from the Defense Innovation Unit raises a total contract ceiling to $219 million, and will further develop Hermeus’ Quarterhorse drone to release payloads at speeds “up to and including Mach 3,” CEO Zach Shore told Breaking Defense.

In the third video focused on manned-unmanned teaming, we trace how the concept has evolved inside the US defense industry and among other militaries across the globe.

Multiple lawmakers have questioned the value of the battleship in recent weeks, often citing the expected cost of the vessel.

The bill authorizes multiyear procurement of critical munitions, the F-35 and the Arleigh Burke destroyer.

The move follows a similar one by the Air Force nearly two years ago.

South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense expects its first nuclear-powered submarine to enter service in the mid-2030s.

The Navy did not reveal which companies’ designs were selected to advance.

The plan involves different defensive systems dispersed across small satellite ships, which can be connected to a mother ship in a disaggregated model.

“It is good that Europe is doing more, but there’s a need to remind our good friends on the other side of the Atlantic that NATO is also good for them,” said the Nordic official.

President Donald Trump had floated the idea of a naval escort months ago, but Adm. Daryl Caudle said today it would be a “very challenging mission.”

[Sponsored] As adversary submarines grow quieter and more elusive, the Navy turns to a new generation of more capable, connected, and open sonobuoys.

The upgrades are expected include the addition of an open system architecture to facilitate the “integration and aggregation of sensors,” PEO-Maritime Capt. Jared Wyrick said.

The program will keep the submarines in service to the 2040s, 20 years longer than originally planned.

MAGA voters are becoming more and more disillusioned with the president’s performance.

“Matt from Las Vegas” tore into Donald Trump during a call-in segment on Real America’s Voice Tuesday, furious with the White House about how it has handled the Iran war—and the narrative the administration has packaged and sold to its voter base in the interim.

“If we so decimated Iran’s Navy and Air Force,…