In this first edition of the Middle East Defense Digest, Agnes Helou walks you through some recent weapons deals in the region before interviewing ASFAT CEO Mustafa Ilbas.

Countries now supplying weapons systems to Ukraine will be able to replace them faster,” according to the Swiss announcement.

JERUSALEM — The Israel Ministry of Defense has signed what it called a “landmark transaction” to acquire 25 more F-15 fighter aircraft in a deal worth $5.2 billion, the ministry announced ...

In the service’s inaugural DASH experiment, coders from both industry and the Shadow Operations Center – Nellis (ShOC-N) spent two weeks building “agentic AI” tools that staff officers ...

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Air Warfare, Global China’s J-20 fighter seems to have a new homegrown engine, after years of struggle “No one wants the Chinese to become capable of designing and building their own jet ...

Air Warfare, Global, Land Warfare Sweden inks $900M IRIS-T air defense deal through European Sky Shield Initiative The procurement is for the Swedish army brigades and for the battle group on ...

Maj. Oleh Shyriaiev, Commander of Ukraine’s 225th Separate Assault Battalion, told Breaking Defense that Washington opening up deep strikes into Russia gives Ukraine a "chance" at victory.

Through the deal, Boeing’s litigation with supplier GKN Aerospace will be dropped, and the aerospace giant will take possession of a St. Louis-area factory it used to own.

General Electric, which produced the GE F110-129 engines for the first lot of eight F-15EX aircraft, will continue manufacturing the propulsion system for the rest of the program of record.

Air Warfare Air Force to forgo tanker competition, sole-source more KC-46s from Boeing The Air Force’s statement brings to end to more than a year of speculation about its strategy for a ...

Honeywell is spearheading a low-risk, cost-effective upgrade to the F-35’s Power and Thermal Management System (PTMS), boosting cooling capacity to support advanced systems while ensuring global ...