A single weapon detonated hundreds of kilometres above the Earth, with no blast wave, no fallout reaching the ground, and no conventional target destroyed, could still leave a continent without…
Author: Future Military Technologies
Future Military Technologies focuses on the defence technologies of tomorrow that will redefine the way warfare is carried out.
Will AI Fight Future Wars Without Humans?
Artificial intelligence already sits inside the modern kill chain. It does not yet replace the commander who authorises a strike, but it compresses the time between detection and engagement in…
Will Tanks Endure as Drones Redefine Armoured Warfare
The war in Ukraine has forced armies everywhere to confront a brutal cost equation. A first-person-view drone assembled from commercial parts and carrying a few kilograms of explosive can disable…
Rafael Integrates SPICE 1000 Guided Bomb Onto the F-35
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems announced on September 15, 2026, at the Air, Space & Cyber Conference that its SPICE 1000 air-to-surface munition is being integrated onto the F-35 for the…
Lockheed Martin Links Legion Sensor Pods for Passive Targeting
Lockheed Martin has demonstrated a dedicated data link between two of its Legion infrared sensor pods, letting a pair of F-16 fighters share targeting information in flight without either aircraft…
Laser Communication: Why Modern Warfare Is Outgrowing the Radio Spectrum
For nearly a century, the radio spectrum has functioned as the nervous system of military operations, carrying everything from crude tactical voice traffic in the Second World War to the…
How Photonic Radar Could Change Airborne Detection
Every stealth aircraft ever built shares the same underlying bet: that its shape and coating can defeat radar operating within a known, narrow slice of the radio spectrum. That bet…
KNDS and Aerix Systems to Develop Drone Interception Capability
KNDS, the Franco-German land defense group behind the Leclerc and Leopard tanks, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Aerix Systems, a small aerial robotics startup based near Bordeaux, to…
US Confirms First-Ever Deployment of Space-Based Weapons
For the first time in its history, the United States has publicly confirmed that it has weapons already in orbit. The admission came from Secretary of the Air Force Troy…
South Korea Opens Concept Study for a KF-21 Successor, and the Engine Problem Is Already Visible
South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae only just finished growing up. The programme officially completed system development on July 29, 2026, after more than 1,600 flight tests and, the previous month, clearing…