Faced with China’s military assertiveness and aggressive claims in the South China Sea, several countries in the region are rapidly re-equipping and modernizing their armed forces. The goal: to prevent aggression, strengthen deterrence capabilities, and consolidate strategic alliances. 🇵🇭 Philippines & 🇮🇳 India: a budding naval alliance In early August 2025, the Philippines and India […]
Israel has spent decades refining one of the world’s most advanced air defense architectures. Driven by constant exposure to rocket fire, missile threats, and UAV incursions from state and non-state actors alike, the country developed a multi-layered system capable of intercepting everything from crude short-range rockets to sophisticated ballistic missiles. This architecture rests on four […]
On the morning of July 28, 2025, Aeroflot was the victim of a cyberattack. Central booking, dispatch and crew‑planning systems fell silent, forcing staff at Sheremetyevo to revert to paper manifests. The airline canceled 54 round-trip flights on that day, causing delays on routes operated by its subsidiaries Rossiya and Pobeda, as well as on […]
Laser weapons are now a technological reality, redefining the rules of modern warfare at the speed of light.Ukraine recently unveiled an innovative laser weapon system called Tryzub, marking a major advance in its air defense capabilities. This development places the country among a small circle of military powers that have taken a significant technological step […]
An autonomous military drone is an unmanned aerial system capable of performing certain tasks autonomously, such as navigation or detection, but the firing decision is generally still validated by a human. These are known as intelligent armed drones or autonomous lethal systems (ALS). Examples of autonomous military UAVs 🇺🇸 XQ-58A Valkyrie (USA) The XQ-58A Valkyrie is […]
In less than a decade, artificial intelligence in the armed forces has gone from emerging technology to capability foundation: major powers are now reconfigure their equipment plans around agents capable of analyzing, planning and executing complex tasks at very high rates, while keeping humans in the loop for any lethal decisions. 🇺🇸 United States: on […]
Since the start of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, drones have played a crucial role, radically transforming the way battles are fought. What began as a series of conventional engagements has rapidly turned into a technological war in which drones play a central role. The massive use of these unmanned aerial vehicles by both […]
In 2024, global military spending reached a record $2,718 billion, marking a 9.4% increase over the previous year. This increase, the largest since 1988, reflects a decade of continuous growth, with a total increase of 37% between 2015 and 2024. The top five spenders in 2024 were the United States, China, Russia, Germany and India, […]
As modern militaries seek to increase tempo, mass, and survivability, a new class of platforms is emerging: drone motherships. These are air, land, or sea-based systems designed to launch, recover, and command swarms of unmanned vehicles, multiplying effects across domains. Where once a single Reaper was sufficient, now dozens of smaller, cheaper drones—networked via AI—promise […]
As the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has intensified since February 2022, one of the most significant changes has been the rapid evolution of means of transport for people on the battlefield. While using traditional mechanized transport, this war has seen the rise of light, agile, often civilian and modified means of transport, which are redefining mobility at […]
