Daily Archives: Dec 17, 2025

Any caliber can be lethal with ideal shot placement. The truism is echoed in gun stores, on shooting ranges, and throughout the internet forums. However, as hundreds of thousands of ballistic tests and actual shootings illustrate, there are boundaries to that advice. A bullet that cannot penetrate as deeply...

Can one precision strike change how energy markets work? Events in the final days of November 2025 suggest yes. Ukraine's deployment of advanced sea drones against Russia's Novorossiysk oil terminal has shut down a key artery of crude supply and chilled as much as 2% of world output, rippling...

“Unmanned systems are a defining threat for our time,” Army Brig. Gen. Matt Ross pronounced at the first-of-its-kind Joint Interagency Task Force 401 summit. That sentence sums up the impetus behind the Pentagon’s newest undertaking: a single digital marketplace to vet, compare, and purchase counter‑drone systems. To defense technologists...