BEIRUT — Turkish firm Baykar has been approved by the Italian government to buy Italian aviation giant Piaggio Aerospace in a move that the company says will expand its reach in the European Union.

This December, after 16 months of studies and experiments, the Department of Defense decided it had figured out enough guardrails for generative AI to start embracing the new technology wholesale.

This was supposed to be the year that the Air Force selected a winning vendor to build its next-gen fighter. Then reality set in.

WASHINGTON — In what has turned out as Army Secretary Christine Wormuth’s fourth and final year as the service’s top civilian leader and Gen. Randy George’s first full year as chief of ...

WASHINGTON — Over the past year, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman has issued a series of internal “Commander’s Notes” that have sought to create the culture and operational ...

WASHINGTON — In 2024, the US Navy’s frustrations with its industrial base were on public display. Whether those frustrations were justified depends on who you ask. I’ve been watching the US ...

The US national security establishment is cautiously embracing generative AI, so Breaking Defense decided to do an experiment.

Key reports covered Japan's defense expansion, China's internal troubles and Australia's uneven pursuit of more naval power.

BEIRUT — This year it was nearly impossible to choose just five stories from our coverage of the Middle East in 2024, a year of brutal wars, seismic shifts in power and, for now, at least some ...

WASHINGTON — The Army is cleared to proceed building out its new spy plane with the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), after the government watchdog agency denied L3Harris’s contract protest.