Daily Archives: Mar 19, 2026

But what if military drones never had to land? For decades, endurance-the time spent flying-has been the Achilles heel of electric unmanned aircraft: batteries drain, fuel runs out, and missions get cut short. A new wave of laser power-beaming technology is rewriting that rulebook-and the implications for defense operations...

The answer to beating the threat of the hypersonic missile is in space. The urgency behind the recent investment in orbital defence by the U.S. Space Force can be summarised with those words by L3Harris CEO Christopher Kubasik. On December 19, 2025, Space Development Agency (SDA) contracted 4 industry...

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...