Military & Defense
Russia says its new military elite is no longer tanks or pilots: drone operators are now the force Medvedev says will define war
Ukraine and five European partners just created a defense-buying coalition, and the hidden target is Russia’s supply advantage
Russia wants a fighter jet so fast that no pilot may be able to fly it, and that turns the cockpit into the strangest problem
A Ukrainian drone maker went from zero to 100 long-range drones a day, and now it says Moscow is within missile range
India locks in a $4 billion uranium deal with Kazakhstan, and the quiet fuel grab says more about power than electricity
JS Izumo reappears with a squared-off bow for F-35B jets, and Japan’s quiet carrier comeback is no longer easy to hide
Japan sends a 300 km/h anti-Shahed drone into Ukraine’s war, and the move reveals Tokyo’s new bet on unmanned warfare
Russia’s new “Banderol” missile appears in leaked diagrams, with a jet-drone body and a speed that could reach 500 km/h
China develops an armed electric flying vehicle with missile launchers, machine guns and autonomous flight for urban security missions
Russia is choking off Kazakh oil to Germany through Druzhba, and the move exposes how one pipeline can still threaten Berlin
Satellite images reveal that Russia has built 85-meter launch rails for a new generation of jet-powered Geran drones just 100 miles from Ukraine
Thales unveils an anti-aircraft shield capable of detecting missiles from a distance of 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) and responding within seconds
Russia may bring 700 Soviet biplanes back from storage, and the reason exposes a deeper collapse inside its aviation industry
The U.S. Navy wants hypersonic weapons in its Mk 41 launch cells, and the real shock is how many ships could gain strike power fast
A 650-gram drone called The Ghost can race at 186 mph to hunt enemy drones, and the real shock is that it was built locally
A single downed pilot can trigger one of America’s most dangerous rescue missions, because the enemy getting there first changes everything
Australia is rewriting its defense strategy every two years, and the reason is a dangerous world moving faster than old armies









