On Oct. 31, 2025, Anduril hit a visible milestone in the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) effort: its YFQ-44A prototype flew for the first time, bringing a jet-powered “loyal wingman” concept into measurable flight testing. Two weeks earlier, on Oct. 16, the Netherlands formalized cooperation through a letter of intent signed in Washington […]
India is not trying to replicate a Leopard 2 or an Abrams. It is answering a specific operational problem: how to move credible, survivable, well-armed armor above 4,000 meters (~13,000 ft), while China already fields Type 15 light tanks across the Tibetan Plateau. That problem set is driving Zorawar, literally “the one who possesses strength”, […]
For the past decade, the “combat cloud” largely lived in airpower briefings. Now, the concept is quietly migrating to the maritime domain. The premise is familiar: link sensors, platforms, and weapons into a distributed network where information moves faster than forces maneuver, and where any shooter can leverage the best available sensor. At sea, however, […]
In Europe, satellite navigation, GPS, Galileo, and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), is no longer just an engineering issue. It has become an operational and safety risk for aviation, maritime traffic, and critical infrastructure that relies on precise timing. Since the war in Ukraine began, GNSS jamming and spoofing have surged across the Baltic, […]
In recent years, the concept of autonomy in weapon systems has shifted from science fiction to operational reality. From swarming drones to AI-assisted decision loops, modern armies are investing heavily in new forms of battlefield autonomy, not to replace humans, but to enhance their effectiveness and survivability. Defining autonomy Autonomy exists on a spectrum. The […]
In an era where information dominance defines victory, airborne surveillance has become one of the most critical components of modern military power. From NATO’s E-3 Sentry to Sweden’s GlobalEye, airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft serve as flying command posts, detecting, tracking, and managing threats across vast distances. These aircraft, integrating powerful radar systems […]
The war in Ukraine has turned the Black Sea into a testbed for asymmetric naval warfare: explosive uncrewed surface vessels, long-range missiles, commercial ISR and systematic sea denial against a superior fleet. From Tokyo to Canberra, Indo-Pacific navies are watching these experiments closely, but they cannot simply copy-paste the Ukrainian playbook into the Pacific, where […]
Counter-drone laser systems are no longer lab curiosities. In 2025, two ecosystems are advancing in parallel: on one side, the NATO/Israel/Europe bloc, focused on integrating lasers into an already structured and demanding air-defense architecture; on the other, a non-NATO bloc, led by China, followed by India and a demand-driven Russia, prioritizing immediate, lower-power results to […]
Poland and Romania are now fielding Merops, a compact AI counter-UAS system built to spot and kill low-cost drones, including FPV swarms, while staying on the move with frontline combined-arms units. Designed as an agile layer between jammers and short-range air defenses (SHORAD/VSHORAD), Merops is fundamentally about driving down the cost per engagement. Instead of […]
AI is moving from hype to infrastructure in modern armed forces, boosting speed and awareness while widening the attack surface. In just a few years, artificial intelligence has shifted from conference buzzword to a working tool across many advanced armed forces. It is showing up first in command centers, intelligence units, air-defense nodes, cyber teams, […]
