Ask most people what “AI in defense” means and they will describe a single scene: an autonomous drone finding and striking a target with no human involved. That scene captures…
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The Latest Trends in Space Militarization: How Orbit Became a Contested Warfighting Domain
For most of the Space Age, military space activity was defined by what might be called a support function: satellites that watched, listened, communicated, and navigated, but did not fight.…
The Future of Aerospace Technology: Six Forces Reshaping Flight, from Fighter Cockpits to Low Earth Orbit
Aerospace technology is not evolving in a straight line right now. It is splitting in two directions at once, and understanding that split is the key to understanding almost everything…
Northrop Grumman Unveils Raid Hunter: A 50mm Gun Built to Solve the Drone-Swarm Economics Problem
The defining tactical problem of short-range air defence in 2026 is not whether a system can shoot down a cruise missile or a drone. Most modern interceptors can. The problem…
A Robot Built the C-17 Part No Vendor Would Touch, and Put a Grounded Globemaster Back in the Air
Sometimes the most consequential piece of defence manufacturing news of the year has nothing to do with a new missile or a new fighter jet. Sometimes it is a single…
Russia Turns to A-50U and Su-57 Felon as Drone Hunters as Its Air Defences Crack
When Russia’s air defence planners drew up their order of battle before 2022, neither the A-50U Mainstay airborne early warning aircraft nor the Su-57 Felon, the country’s only stealth fighter,…
Anduril Unveils Thunder: An Autonomous Attack Rotorcraft Built for the Deadliest Part of the Battlefield
Attack aviation has a survival problem. The low-altitude airspace that attack helicopters have always needed to operate in, close enough to the ground to find and strike targets, has become…
AI Tool Shrinks British Army War Planning From 72 Hours to One, And the NATO Race to Replicate It Has Begun
There is a number that has been reverberating around NATO defence establishments since late June 2026, and it is not a budget figure or a vehicle count. It is a…
USMC Awards $20 Million Contract for First Fully Autonomous Ground Vehicles
The U.S. Marine Corps has taken a step that the broader American military has been slowly building toward for years: it has awarded a production contract — not a prototype…
Lockheed Martin’s NXGB: A New Hypersonic Glide Body Built to Be Produced at Scale
America’s hypersonic weapons programme has always had two problems running in parallel. The first is physics: building a weapon that flies at Mach 5 or above while manoeuvring through the…