Russia’s lack of conventional military superiority when compared to the U.S. and the rest of NATO is driving its development of “asymmetric” capabilities like the nuclear anti-satellite weapon that generated headlines earlier this year, multiple Pentagon officials said this week.
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Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin wants Airmen to study up on drone warfare in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, citing their “transformative impact” on modern warfare, as part of the latest installment of his Leadership Library.
Much-anticipated F-16 fighters have started being delivered to Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed July 10 at the NATO Public Forum held in Washington, D.C. While Blinken did not reveal how many fighters will be included in the initial batch, a joint statement from ...
Amid unprecedented amounts of electronic warfare in Russia’s war on Ukraine, there is no doubt that the Russians are jamming GPS and other satellite-based navigation systems around the Baltic Sea. But is it just spillover from Russian air defense and force protection measures—jamming GPS so ...
As this year’s NATO summit kicked off in Washington, D.C., on July 9, officials previewed more support for Ukraine that will be agreed to and announced in the days to come—including an update on the long-awaited F-16s that several NATO nations are poised to deliver ...
The U.S. should remove the limits it imposes on what targets Ukraine can attack with American weapons, former Air Force generals said, and let Ukraine take the fight to air bases and staging areas inside Russia. Ukraine also needs to dump its Soviet-style doctrine of ...
Ukraine is poised to get its first F-16 fighters in the next few months, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. confirmed June 13, in a move that would bolster Kyiv’s air capabilities against Russia.
The Ukraine war has taught that speedy countermeasures, flexible funding and exploiting off-the-shelf commercial technology are crucial to equipping forces for modern conflict, policy veterans of the Pentagon and Congress said on a CNAS webinar.
Belgium pledged to provide Ukraine with more than two dozen F-16s in a pact agreed to by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo during the Ukrainian leader’s visit to the country on May 28. The F-16s will be delivered “as ...