Ukraine’s defense industry in 2026 looks very different from the one that entered the war in February 2022. In July, a U.S. official estimated that the country was on track to produce between 6 million and 7 million small first-person-view (FPV) attack drones this year, roughly 500,000 a month. Kyiv, meanwhile, puts its annual defense […]
After more than four years of war and sanctions, Russia’s defense industry is still producing weapons at scale. But counting the weapons leaving Russian factories captures only part of the picture. It says far less about what it takes to keep those production lines running. The more important question is what makes Russia’s mass-production model […]
Valour, Singapore’s Multi-Role Combat Vessel, looks like a conventional warship. But Singapore is designing it to fight alongside uncrewed systems in the air, on the surface and underwater. Adding a handful of drones to a fleet is one thing. Building a force in which a warship must deploy them, coordinate their operations, exploit their data […]
Ground-based counter-drone defense is no longer simply about jamming, guns, missiles, or lasers. The most credible systems are evolving toward architectures capable of integrating sensors, decision-support software, and multiple defeat mechanisms into a single operational chain. Sky Warden, for example, is presented as a modular system designed to integrate and control multiple sensors and effectors […]
A drone can see. A satellite can detect. But that information still has to be processed fast enough to remain useful. Recent conflicts have revealed a quieter but increasingly important shift: modern militaries now generate enormous volumes of data that must be transported, filtered, processed, and redistributed continuously. In Ukraine, aerial imagery, targeting information, surveillance […]
Sea-Air-Space 2026 closed its doors several weeks ago, but the event offered more than a showcase of emerging naval technologies. Held by the Navy League of the United States at National Harbor from April 19 to April 22, the exhibition highlighted several deeper structural shifts in how the U.S. Navy is now approaching innovation, unmanned […]
In the South China Sea, naval innovation is no longer defined by larger hulls or longer-range missiles. It is increasingly driven by smaller, unmanned platforms designed to patrol, detect, and relay data in contested waters where persistence matters as much as firepower. Across Southeast Asia, this shift is accelerating under the combined pressure of territorial […]
The rapid expansion of uncrewed systems has already become one of the defining drivers of global military transformation. In just a few years, drones and other uncrewed platforms have moved from niche capabilities to central tools of modern warfare across land, air, surface maritime and undersea environments. Their proliferation is reshaping tactics, force employment costs, […]
Since 2022, the conflict in Ukraine has fundamentally reshaped the balance between offense and defense by demonstrating the operational effectiveness of low-cost drones used at scale. Systems such as the Shahed 136, estimated to cost between $20,000 and $50,000 per unit according to multiple open-source analyses, have enabled the saturation of air defense systems whose […]
Since 2022, the war in Ukraine has profoundly transformed the military use of drones. Russian forces regularly use Shahed-type attack drones to strike energy infrastructure, military installations, and urban areas. In response to these repeated attacks, Ukraine has sought to develop interception solutions that are less expensive than traditional air defense systems. The STING drone, […]
