Maritime
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Oct 30, 2026
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5 min read
Every AI model, satellite image, and targeting tool runs in a building somewhere, plugged into a grid. In March 2026, one of those buildings became a target.
Communications
+2
Oct 23, 2026
For about a day last week, Ukraine's interceptor drones were slower than the drones they were chasing. A week later, nobody will say who made that call.
United States
+1
Oct 9, 2026
The Pentagon bought into a Maine company that used to make lightbulb filaments. Here's why, and what it says about where the real bottleneck sits.
Oct 2, 2026
A four-year-old drone boat company just broke ground on a $3 billion yard in South Texas. Here's what Port Alpha is, and what it would take to work.
Aviation
Sep 25, 2026
6 min read
How high-power microwave weapons have become a leading answer to the drone swarm dilemma.
+4
Sep 11, 2026
America’s largest drone maker walked away from retail consumers, got adopted by the US Army, and made an enemy of the world’s biggest drone maker along the way
Jul 14, 2026
8 min read
For decades, the US military has bought powerful systems that often struggle to work together. Operation Jailbreak is an attempt to make interoperability a battlefield requirement, not an afterthought.
Autonomy
Jul 6, 2026
9 min read
The startup behind a 3D-printed supercar is now printing Tomahawk structures. The pitch is a software-defined factory that can build almost anything.
Jun 4, 2026
11 min read
Convincing the Air Force Secretary to climb into a jet with no human pilot.