Ashley Roque

Thrilled to join the growing (and charismatic) @BreakingDefense team next week to pick up the land warfare beat. Please send tips and hot takes to aroque@breakingmedia.com

Exclusive: The Pentagon is poised to accept new F-35s without radars due to delays for a new system dubbed the APG-85. If delays drag on, the issue could affect over 100 aircraft. w/@ValerieInsinna and @Diana_Stancy breakingdefense.com/2026/03/exclus…

U.S. Energy Secretary Wright says Naval escorts (in the Strait of Hormuz) cannot happen now but quite likely by end of month.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on Tuesday deleted a post on X which had said the U.S. Navy successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz "to ensure oil remains flowing to global markets."

The Milestone B pause, combined with a recent solicitation, is raising eyebrows among watchers of the XM30 about whether the Army is already considering its other options. With @carley_welch_ @BreakingDefense breakingdefense.com/2026/02/is-the…

Dem lawmakers raise questions over Pentagon’s equity deal with rare earth producer breakingdefense.com/2026/02/dem-la…

Reconciliation revealed: How the Pentagon plans to spend all $152 billion in FY26 breakingdefense.com/2026/02/reconc…

Training, logistics and property accountability: Army preparing for influx of small drones breakingdefense.com/2026/02/traini…

Forthcoming US arm sales changes leave unanswered questions breakingdefense.com/2026/02/forthc…

Canada is still interested in Golden Dome. What can it bring – and how could it fall apart? breakingdefense.com/2026/02/canada…

New: The Sentinel ICBM is set to conclude a restructuring this year, and the troubled program is now set to become operational early in the next decade, General Dale White tells me. breakingdefense.com/2026/02/exclus…

US President Donald Trump inked a new EO today, calling for national production interests to be taken into greater account when the US sells foreign nations weapons while also creating a new list of platforms to push on the market. breakingdefense.com/2026/02/new-am…

SCOOP: House Armed Services Chair @RepMikeRogersAL says defense industrial base expansion will be the focus of the FY27 NDAA and that he and SASC head @SenatorWicker are seeking about $450B for defense in the second reconciliation bill: breakingdefense.com/2026/02/exclus…

A National Defense Strategy that could leave adversaries, and allies, guessing breakingdefense.com/2026/01/a-nati…

Buzz kill: To make cocaine less potent, Colombia looking to modify gasoline supply breakingdefense.com/2026/01/buzz-k…

‘No decision’ yet on AFRICOM’s future, as terror groups become ‘more cohesive’: Official breakingdefense.com/2026/01/no-dec…

As demand for munitions has skyrocketed, companies developing solid rocket motors have flooded the market to provide this much needed technology. But that growth hasn't extended across the entire SRM supply chain, which is still beset with challenges: breakingdefense.com/2026/01/with-t…

More cuts loom as Army streamlines ground vehicle autonomy efforts: Official breakingdefense.com/2025/12/more-c…

US National Security Strategy calls for reviving ‘Monroe Doctrine,’ limiting NATO expansion breakingdefense.com/2025/12/nation…

A few years ago, the US got ahold of a damaged Shahed drone and had US companies reverse-engineer it, a defense official said. Now the US military is standing up the first one-way attack drone squadron in the Middle East — and using drones based on Iran's own playbook. cnn.com/2025/12/03/pol…

MDA picks over 1,000 initial winners for Golden Dome contracting vehicle breakingdefense.com/2025/12/mda-pi…