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, […]
Between contested airspace and IED-ridden roads, the goal is no longer to replace the armored ambulance, but to cut the time to care. Drones open the critical window; protected medical vehicles ensure continuity all the way to surgery. The Golden Hour is no longer just a medical guideline. In environments saturated with IEDs, electronic jamming […]
The renewed violence between Cambodia and Thailand in 2025 is a threshold conflict between two mid-sized armies fighting with what they actually have on hand: BM-21 rocket launchers and heavy Chinese systems on one side, modernized F-16s and radars on the other. Between these two poles, mines, drones, and conventional artillery shape a hybrid battlefield […]
From 2 to 10 November 2025, the active phase of Resolute Warrior 25 set the tempo in Latvia, as NATO ran a brigade-level exercise on the Eastern Flank. Long military convoys on public roads, combined-arms training on Camp Ādaži, manned and unmanned air activity overhead, for more than a week, the country moved to the […]
In 2025, Greece structured its air–maritime training cycle around operational needs rather than theatrics. There was no diplomatic grandstanding, no symbolic shows for a domestic audience. Athens built a coherent sequence of exercises designed to shorten the kill chain, secure key coastal approaches, test amphibious capabilities in realistic conditions and, above all, prove that its […]
