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2026
January
- Onebrief's $2B Milestone: AI Mission Planning, Command Rewiring, and the Data Ethics Stress Test
- Inside the Navy’s Fully Autonomous BQM-177A Air-Defense Mission and What It Means for Swarms in Contested Skies
- Technical Breakdown: What the Navy's Autonomous BQM-177A Demonstrations Mean for Air Defense and Swarm Warfare
- Pentagon’s $1B Bet on L3Harris Solid Rocket Motors: Tactical Boost or Structural Patch for a Stressed Industrial Base?
- Pentagon’s $1 Billion Bet on L3Harris Rocket Motors: A Strategic Push to Shore Up Hypersonic and Missile Production
- D3 Orlando: DARPA Pushes AI-Driven UGVs and Autonomous Triage Tech — Capabilities Rise, Ethical Questions Loom
- Defense Tech Outlook: Unmanned Era Dawns
- Can Ukraine Really Claim 'Drone Superpower' Status? A Data-Driven Assessment
- DoD Agentic AI Scales Nationwide: Infrastructure, Risk and the Missing Control Plane
- Parsing the PLA’s AI-Driven Drills: What Beijing’s 2025 Exercises Reveal about Capability and Risk
- 2026 Predictions: Full Autonomy — What Will and Will Not Happen
2025
December
- Top Innovations of 2025: A Year When Autonomy, Power and Networks Reshaped Defense
- Holiday Defense Tech Gifts for the Hands-On Professional
- Speculative: AI-Piloted Fleets 2035 — Architecture, Risks, and an Operational Roadmap
- Market Year-End: Records Broken — How 2025 Rewrote the Defense Tech Playbook
- Interoperable Global Alliances: Engineering Trust, Data, and Modularity for Coalition Warfighting
- Laser Weapons and the Export Control Gap: Where Policy Must Catch Up With Directed Energy
- The Middle East Drone Arms Race: Platforms, Proxies, and the Erosion of Thresholds
- Quantum Supremacy in SIGINT: What the Benchmarks Mean for Collection, Cryptanalysis, and Sensing
November
- AUKUS Full Tech Integration: From Pillar II Experiments to a Trilateral Fight Chain
- Three Years of Drone War in Ukraine: A Data-Driven Review
- Startup Ecosystems in 2025: A Data-Driven Comparison of Europe and the United States
- Ethical AI in Proliferated Warfare: Between Norms, Hardware Gates, and the Realities of Combat
- When Diplomacy Fails the Speed of Sound: Why Hypersonic Arms Control Has Stalled
- Directed Energy Standardization: From Safety Rules to Operational Interoperability
- No, NATO Did Not Quietly Publish an 'AI Doctrine' Today — What Was Announced, what’s missing, and why doctrine matters
- The 2024 Election Aftermath and the Tech Surge: Why Defense and AI Won the First Round
October
- Counting the Bolts: What 'Serial Production' of Russian Hypersonics Really Means
- Israel's Gaza Tech Lessons: What Militaries and Policymakers Should Take From Eightteen Months of High-Tech Conflict
- Cyber AI Counteroffensives: Turning Autonomy into a Strategic Edge
- Market Forecast: Why a $3 Trillion Defence-Tech Market by 2030 Is Plausible
- Sea Drone Carriers Emerge: The Mothership Era Arrives at Sea and Sky
- DoD AI Investments Double? A Close Accounting of the Numbers and What They Really Mean
- Quantum for EW Superiority: Promise, Limits, and an Integration Roadmap
- Loyal Wingmen Move From Concept to Operations: What the MQ-28, XQ-58 and CCA Efforts Tell Us
- AUSA 2025 Preview: What to Watch as the Army Converges on DC
September
- Q3 Review: AI Dominates Defense — What July–September 2025 Really Changed
- Ethical Dilemmas of Agentic AI: Responsibility, Risk, and the Limits of Control
- China's Space Weapons Update: Capabilities, Tests, and What Comes Next
- Ukraine Conflict: Tech Turning Point
- When Beams Meet Bees: What 2025 Trials Tell Us About Lasers versus Drone Swarms
- Startup or Strategist? Reading OpenAI’s Defense Pivot
- NATO’s Drone Interceptor Problem: From Patchwork Procurement to a Layered Kinetic Option
- Hypersonic Defense Layer Complete: What the Claim Really Means
- Agentic Planners in Military Exercises: What the 2025 Rollout Teaches Us About Validation, Risk, and Design
August
- The Arctic Tech Race: Access, Sensors, and the New Geometry of Power
- The USMC’s Drone-First Push: Doctrine, Tradeoffs, and What Comes Next
- Drone Warfare Casualty Analysis: Numbers, Mechanisms, and the Transparency Gap
- Market Check: Where Defense Unicorns Sit on the IPO Roadmap
- Interoperability Challenges Solved?
- Building the EU Quantum Defence Network: Architecture, Gaps, and the Road to Operational Use
- Lancet 3.0 Autonomy: How ZALA’s Kamikaze Drone Evolved the Human‑Machine Balance
- Iron Dome 2.0: How Israel Is Using AI to Turn Interceptor Logic Into a Distributed Decision Layer
July
- Orbital Drones 2030: A Practical Roadmap from Demonstrations to Persistent On-Orbit Agents
- When Ethics Get Institutions: New AI Oversight Bodies Reshape the Defense Tech Landscape
- Maritime Big Play: What the AUKUS Tech Demo in the Pacific Actually Proved
- Cyber Resilient Autonomous Systems: Engineering for Continued Mission in an Adversarial World
- Scaling the Common Hypersonic Glide Body: Why Production Is the Hard Part
- Directed Energy Portable Units: Where Portability Meets Physics
- Replicator Phase 2: Can the DoD Scale to Thousands of Drones on Timeline?
- What CCTV’s July 8 Footage and Fujian Trials Tell Us About China’s J-35 Carrier Integration
- Ukraine's AI Command Posts: How Delta, Vezha and Avengers Turn Data Into Decisions
- Independence: US Laser Weapon Exports
June
- Market Analysis: The Post-2025 Boom in Defence Tech — Where the Money Went and What Comes Next
- NATO’s Tech Superiority Pledge: Ambition, Timelines, and the Hard Work of Delivery
- Quantum AI Hybrid Breakthroughs: What Mid‑2025 Research and Industry Moves Mean for Defense R&D
- Sea Hunter at Scale? What the U.S. Navy’s Slow, Deliberate Expansion of the Sea Hunter Line Really Looks Like
- Ethical Warfare in Urban Environments: Limits, Technologies, and Operational Tradeoffs
- AI for Logistics: Predictive Resupply at the Edge of Combat
- When Two Powers Play with Swarms: Reading the Signal in Russia–China Joint Drone Drills
- Startup Funding: What the H1 2025 VC Surge Means for Defense and Dual‑Use Tech
May
- Killer Robots or Necessary Tools? Why Drone Bans Have Become a Geopolitical Standoff
- Laser Defense Against Ballistic Missiles: Where Physics, Platforms, and Policy Meet
- FY2026 Defense Budget Preview: What the Skinny Budget Means for Modernization, Industry and Readiness
- Where the Pieces Fit: Mid‑2025 State of Interoperable Swarm Protocol Standardization
- Hypersonic Global Arms Race Heats Up: Where Programs Stand and What Comes Next
- AUKUS and the Quantum Inflection Point: Why the May PNT Tests Demand a Pillar III
- Separating Fact from Hype: What the B-21 Raider’s First Flights Actually Tell Us About AI
- Israel’s Drone Superpower Status: Capability, Combat Lessons, and Strategic Limits
- SOF Week 2025 Preview: Where Exoskeletons Meet Attritable Drones
April
- State-Sponsored AI Malware: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Cyber Warfare
- Unmanned Carriers Commissioned: A New Chapter in Sea Power and the Limits of Automation
- Inside Beijing’s ‘Virtual Commander’: What China’s AI-Driven War Games Reveal About PLA Intent and Risk
- FPV Interceptors in Ukrainian Service: What the April Reveal Means for Air Defense
- Ethical Concerns: AI Bias in Targeting
- Market: Defense Exports Hit Records — What the Numbers Tell Us About the Next Year for the Industrial Base
- Quantum Sensors and the Claimed End of Stealth: What the Physics Actually Allows
- NATO REPMUS 2025: An Autonomous Agenda for the Maritime Domain
- April Fools? Real AI Pranks in Training
March
- Directed Energy vs Swarms: A Practical, Physics-First Assessment
- Poseidon Progress to Date: What Russia's 'Oceanic' Drone Torpedo Advances Mean for Undersea Deterrence
- Speculative Futures: Humanless Wars
- EU Defense Tech Ecosystem Grows: Funding, Industry Scale-Up, and the Limits of Sovereignty
- When The Pentagon Flips The Switch: What the DoD’s First Agentic AI Pilots Really Mean
- Anatomy of a Near‑Autonomous Kill Chain: How Israel’s Targeting Tools Could Be Applied to Lebanon
- What “Success” Means After the First Hypersonic Interceptor Wins
- Startup Watch: What Anduril’s Lattice AI Upgrade Means for Edge Warfare
February
- Indo-Pacific Drone Alliances: From Trilateral Autonomy to Distributed Deterrence
- Cyber AI Defenses Against Deepfakes: A Layered, Data-Driven Roadmap
- Interoperability Update: Where JADC2/CJADC2 Stands and What Still Breaks
- AUKUS Hypersonic Joint Tests: What the HyFliTE Pact Actually Changes
- Ukraine Says It Has Hit a 4 Million-Drone Production Capacity. The Numbers Check Out — Mostly.
- Megawatt on the Horizon: What Scaling Laser Weapons to 1 MW Really Means
- Live Fires and Human‑Machine Boundaries: Where US Army Manned‑Unmanned Teaming Stands
- China's Stealth Drone Fleet Revealed: What Open Source Shows and What It Means
January
- Ethical AI at the UN: Progress, Posturing, and the Politics of a 'Ban'
- Quantum Computing Breaks Old Encryption: What the Headlines Got Wrong and What Defense Planners Must Do Now
- Market Trends: Private Capital in Defense — Where the Money Is Going and What It Means
- Inside NATO's AI Command Center Prototype: What 'Mainsail' Reveals About Alliance-Level AI C2
- Sea Drone Swarms Dominate the Black Sea: How Attritable USVs Rewrote Maritime Power
- GigEagle’s Next Phase: What Opening the DoD Talent Marketplace to Contractors Would Actually Mean
- What We Know About Russia’s New AI-Enabled Artillery Spotters and Why They Matter
- Iron Beam: Not Yet 'Operational' — But the Laser Is Approaching the Line
- New Year Outlook: Agentic AI in Defense — Pragmatism, Peril, and the Path to Useful Autonomy
2024
December
- Holiday Tech: Portable Drone Jammers — Why They Are Not the Present You Want to Buy
- Speculation: Unmanned Air Superiority 2030
- Year in Review: Drone Warfare Evolution — 2024
- Startup Roundup: 2024 Defense Unicorns
- Ethical Debates: Lethal AI Autonomy — Where Policy, Law, and Engineering Collide
- Hypersonic Race: India Joins the Fray
- AUKUS AI 'Finalization' Is Mostly Infrastructure: What Canberra, London and Washington Actually Agreed
November
- Cyber Defense: Quantum-Resistant Crypto — Where We Stand and What To Do Next
- Ukraine Hits 2M Drone Milestone: Industrial Scaling, Strategic Effects, and What Comes Next
- Directed Energy for Missile Defense: Where the Physics Ends and Strategy Begins
- Market Surge: Defense Stocks Post-Election
- AI Agentic Systems: Early DoD Pilots, Capabilities, and Governance Gaps
- Why a 'NATO Drone Production Pact' Would Be Useful and Why One Has Not Been Signed
- Robot Dogs in the Dark: How Israel Is Deploying Quadrupeds into Tunnel Warfare—and Why That Matters
- How the 2024 U.S. Election Could Rewire Defense Tech Funding: Scenarios, Risks, and Tactical Moves for Startups
October
- Halloween Special: Ghost Drones in Warfare
- Trump's Defense Boost: Priorities Analyzed
- Geopolitical Shifts and Post-Election Defense Policy: Scenarios and Strategic Priorities
- Quantum for Battlefield Sensors: Reality Check for Navigation, Magnetometry, and Quantum Radar
- Drone Interceptors: Ukraine's Low-Cost Solution
- Hypersonic \"Slip-Back\" Engines Advance: Combining Mode-Switching and Fast Sensing to Solve the Unstart Problem
- AUSA 2024 Preview: The Unveilings Industry Has Teased and What They Mean for the Army
- When Startups Meet Sovereignty: How European Defence Entrepreneurs Are Wiring AI into Military Systems
- Unmanned Surface Vessels in Red Sea Operations: Tactical Reality and Strategic Implications
- China's Space-Based Lasers: A Technical and Strategic Threat Assessment
September
- Reading the Fine Print: What the DoD AI Roadmap Update Means for Adoption, Testing, and Assurance
- When the Sky Goes Silent: How Russian Electronic Warfare Jams Ukrainian Drones and What Counter‑Tech Actually Works
- On the Razor's Edge: Ethical Fault Lines in Ukraine’s Adoption of AI Targeting
- Market Forecast: Hypersonics Boom — Who Pays for Speed
- US Tests Next-Gen B-21 Raider AI Integration
- From Expo Floor to Fielded Kit: The Drone Dome’s Quiet Debut and Its Strategic Implications
- Cyber Threats to Autonomous Systems: An Operational Risk Map and Practical Roadmap for Resilience
- When Many Small Birds Fly Together: How 2024 NATO Exercises Brought Massed UAS Tactics into the Mainstream
August
- Speculative: AI Generals in 2040 Warfare
- Palyanytsia and the New Deep-Strike Era: How Ukraine’s Long‑Range Strike Drones Reached Crimea
- From Ponce to Preble and Portland: What the Navy’s Shipboard Laser Tests Tell Us About Directed-Energy Readiness
- Helsing’s €450M Series C: What the Money Means for Europe’s Defence-AI Trajectory
- Interoperability in Joint All‑Domain Command: Where the Data Really Lives
- Arctic Drone Bases: How Unmanned Hubs Are Rewriting High North Strategy
- AUKUS Pillar II: Where Submarine Tech and Advanced Capabilities Stand (Status as of 2024-08-08)
- Quantum Encryption for Military Comms: Practical Reality, Hard Limits, and a Way Forward
- Unmanned Wingman Programs Worldwide: State of Play and Operational Trajectories
July
- Separating Hype from Hardware: What the Evidence Shows About DF-27 Deployment Rumors
- Ukraine FPV Drone Tactics Evolve: From Racing Quads to Purpose-Built Kill Chains
- Laser Dazzlers for Drone Countermeasures: Capabilities, Limits, and Where They Fit in a Layered C‑UAS Architecture
- Market Trends: Why VCs Are Pouring Capital into Defense Tech
- Ethical AI in Targeting: Where the DoD Stands and What Still Needs Fixing
- Replicator and the Economics of Cheap Drone Swarms: Promise, Limits, and the Metrics That Matter
- Incremental Autonomy: What Russia’s Orion Upgrade Really Means for the Battlefield
- Independence Day Special: America’s Defense Innovation at a Crossroads
- What 99 Percent Really Means: Technical Readout of Israel’s Air-Defence Performance in the Latest Barrage
June
- Cyber Defense: When AI Fights AI — Practical Realities and Strategic Choices
- NATO Summit Pledges Drone Dominance: Industrializing the Swarm
- Sea Mines Go Smart: How AI Is Rewriting Mine Warfare
- Hypersonic Test Success: What the ARRW Variant Flight Really Means
- How Palantir’s 2024 Defense Wins Reshape Funding Pathways for Startups
- Interoperable AI Networks for Coalition Forces: Architecture, Tradeoffs, and an Operational Roadmap
- Chinese Drone Carriers: Pacific Implications
- What the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft Choice Really Means for the Future of Airpower
May
- Ethical Warfare: Banning Killer Robots?
- AUKUS and the Quantum Clock Race: What Quantum Timekeeping Means for Navigation
- Reality Check on Ukraine's '2 Million Drones in 2024' Goal: Capacity, Constraints, and What It Actually Means
- Directed Energy vs Hypersonics: A Pragmatic Viability Debate
- Market Update: Defense Stocks Surge on Geopolitical Risk and Replenishment Cycle
- Where Brussels Is Placing Its Chips: EDF’s Early AI Bets and What They Mean for European Defence
- Parsing the Claims: Russia, the S-500 and the Question of AI-Enabled Upgrades
- What Israel’s Ground Robots in Gaza Tell Us About the Next Phase of War
- SOF Week Preview: Next-Gen Special Ops Tech to Watch
April
- Cyber Resilient Drones: New Standards Proposed to Close an Emerging Gap
- Speculation: Unmanned Carriers by 2035 — Technical Pathways, Constraints, and Likely Outcomes
- AI for Predictive Maintenance in Legacy Aircraft: Practical Pathways and Real Limits
- Defense Tech M&A Wave: Why 2024 Became a Consolidation Moment
- Patrolling the Precipice: Geopolitical Impacts of Taiwan Strait Drone Patrols
- Trial By Fire: Ukraine Begins Testing Western Long‑Range Uncrewed Systems and the Integration Hurdles Ahead
- Laser Weapons Enter Service: What the Army’s DE M‑SHORAD Trials Tell Us
- Iran's Shahed Drones: Production Ramp-Up Analysis
- GigEagle: What the DoD’s AI Talent-Matching Push Means for Workforce Agility
March
- Quantum Sensors for Submarine Detection: Promise, Physics, and Practical Limits
- NATO’s Drone Wall Along the Russian Border Takes Shape — But the Hard Work Is Just Beginning
- Sea Drone Swarms and the Black Sea: How Uncrewed Surface Vessels Rewrote Naval Calculus
- Hypersonic Defense: MDA’s Next-Gen Interceptors and the Sensor Problem
- Startup Spotlight: Shield AI's Hivemind — an AI pilot built for contested battlefields
- When Algorithms Meet Bombing Runs: Ethical Risks of AI-Assisted Targeting in Gaza
- Force Design 2030 and the Unmanned Pivot: What the USMC Has Built and What Still Breaks
- J-20 Upgrades Tilt Toward AI-Enabled Avionics: What the Data and Open Sources Show
February
- Practical Interoperability Fixes for the F-35 and Drone Swarms
- Turkish Bayraktar Drones Evolve: Export Boom Continues
- AI in Battlefield Decision-Making: Pros and Risks
- Market Forecast: Why $2.5 Trillion in Global Defense Spending by 2028 Is a Plausible Baseline
- AUKUS Tech Transfer Accelerates: What the Push Means for Submarine Stealth
- Reality Check: Ukraine’s 'Army of Drones' Is Scaling Rapidly — But a 1,000,000‑Unit Milestone Had Not Been Reached by Mid‑February 2024
- Directed Energy for Drone Defense: Where Navy Tests Stand and What Still Limits Fielding
- Cyber Warfare Lessons from Recent Middle East Hacks
- REPMUS 2024: Scaling Maritime Autonomy from Experimentation to Operational Workflows
January
- Hypersonic Glide Vehicles: Where the U.S. and China Stand — A January 2024 Assessment
- Anduril Raises $1.5B? A Valuation Reality Check and What It Would Mean
- Operationalizing Ethics: Practical Guidelines for AI in Lethal Autonomous Weapons
- Undersea Automation at the Edge: UUVs and the South China Sea Drills
- DoD's $2B-Scale AI R&D Push: Project Spotlights and Technical Realities
- Russia’s Lancet Campaign and Ukraine’s Improvised Shielding: How Cheap Kamikaze Drones Forced Fast Tactical Innovation
- Iron Beam Progress Report: Where Israel's High‑Energy Laser Stood on January 9, 2024
- New Year, New Bottlenecks: How AI Will Reshape Logistics in 2024 Conflicts
2023
December
- Year-End Review: Top Defense Tech Breakthroughs of 2023
- Quantum Computing for SIGINT: Defense Applications Emerge
- Case Study: FPV Drones in Ukrainian Counteroffensives
- EU Defense Tech Fund Turns to Hypersonics: What the EDF Bets Mean for Europe's Air Defence
- Iran’s Drone Exports to Proxies: How Cheap UAVs Are Rewiring Regional Power and Risk
- US Army Tests Robotic Combat Vehicles: The Concrete Path to Manned‑Unmanned Teaming
November
- Speculation and Trajectory: Will Swarm Drones Dominate Urban Warfare by 2030?
- Cyber Defense Innovations: Protecting Unmanned Platforms from Hacking
- Market Trends: How the Israel-Hamas Escalation Is Reshaping Defense Budgets and the Industrial Base
- Interoperability Challenges: Integrating Legacy Tanks with Modern AI Sensors
- NATO Boosts Drone Procurement Amid Baltic Tensions
- Directed Energy on Display at AUSA 2023: Lasers Versus Drones, Reality Check
- AUKUS Pillar II Advances: AI and Quantum for Submarine Supremacy
- When Algorithms Aim: Ethical Fault Lines in AI-Assisted Targeting in the Ukraine Conflict
October
- Startup Funding Surge in Defense Drones: Who's Leading the Charge?
- China's Hypersonic Missiles Raise Alarms: A Technical Breakdown and Practical Countermeasures
- What the Pentagon’s Next AI Playbook Means for Autonomous Combat Systems
- Ukrainian Sea Drones Sink and Disable Russian Ships: What Black Sea Operations Teach Us About Naval Unmanned Warfare
- Iron Dome Under Fire: Analyzing Israel's Missile Defense During the Hamas Onslaught