Daily Archives: Mar 19, 2026

By the beginning of 2025, the skies over Ukraine had become a permanent barrage. Hundreds-strong nightly swarms of Russian Shahed drones coming in massed to overwhelm traditional air defenses were forcing impossible choices upon commanders: expensive missile interceptors were being spent on low-cost targets, while slower gun crews could...

"The enemy must understand that Ukraine will not stop, and it will strike them anywhere in the world," those words by a source in the Ukrainian Security Service framed an operation that has redefined the maritime battlespace of the Ukraine-Russia War. For the first time since the full-scale invasion...

Can a commercial space company outpace the legacy defense giants to deliver next-generation missile defense capabilities? Rocket Lab's latest win suggests the answer is yes. The U.S. Space Development Agency has awarded Rocket Lab an $816 million prime contract to design and manufacture 18 satellites for the Tracking Layer...