Aerospace America • 16th October 2025

Next-generation ‘doomsday planes’ move closer to reality

The E-4B “Nightwatch” is the aircraft the United States never wants to use: a militarized Boeing 747-200 that can turn into a mobile command-and-control for the president and senior military officials if the country comes under nuclear attack.

14th October 2025

Reformation Act: US plots acquisition change - Global Defence Technology | Issue 155 | October 2025

This July, at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' ASCEND conference in Las Vegas, the United States Space Force’s Lt. General Philip Garrant was asked about his vision for equipping the Guardians of the future.

Splinter • 22nd September 2025

Why Are We Bombing Drug Boats?

The United States apparently bombed a third suspected drug boat in the Caribbean Sea. “We knocked off, actually, three boats – not two – but you saw two,” Trump told reporters last week. 
That the United States may have committed a third, almost certainly illegal lethal strike on a suspected drug boat without bothering to provide much supporting evidence or justification underscores just how brazen and expansive the administration’s so-called war on drugs has been. The United States has historic...

Aerospace America • 25th August 2025

An uncertain future for Space Futures Command

In July, the Space Force led its largest exercise to date, “Resolute 25,” which sought to demonstrate how the U.S. and its allies would “operate in a contested, dynamic environment against high-end threats on short notice,” according to a press release.
The warfighting simulation incorporated “space-based and space-enabled capabilities,” including space electromagnetic and orbital warfare. These are too...

Splinter • 20th August 2025

Sure Seems Like a Lot of Traveling for Not All That Much to Happen

President Donald Trump’s thirst for a Nobel Peace Prize generated a burst of diplomatic activity over the past few days around Russia’s war with Ukraine.

Global Defence Technology • 19th August 2025

Test subject: Pentagon cuts target ODOT&E - Global Defence Technology | Issue 154 | August 2025

In 1983, the United States Congress created the Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (ODOT&E), an independent agency to monitor weapons testing at the Pentagon.

Splinter • 30th July 2025

“Every Single One of My Patients Is Malnourished”

The “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” says a global hunger monitor, saying that one in three people in Gaza are going days without food, and at least 20,000 children are receiving acute malnutrition treatment between April and mid-July.

Aerospace America • 21st July 2025

ANALYSIS: Weighing the cost of the F-47

The F-47, the planned next-generation U.S. stealth fighter jet, will be built to evade adversaries’ air defenses and have a combat radius of 1,000 nautical miles, farther than any other jet in America’s air-fighting arsenal.