Military

Boeing’s F‑47 win on March 21, 2025 reset the air superiority race. This deep dive shows how an open architecture fighter, teamed with Collaborative Combat Aircraft and adaptive propulsion, could redefine U.S. power and the defense industrial base through the 2030s.

A September surge in GPS jamming and spoofing across the Baltic and NATO’s Eastern Sentry response are forcing a fast reset in how allied forces navigate, time, and fight in contested skies and seas.

Lockheed Martin’s July 2025 delivery of SPY-7 radar shipsets for Japan’s first Aegis System Equipped Vessel marks a turning point. Here is how ASEV replaces Aegis Ashore, extends Japan’s missile shield, and plugs into a U.S.-Japan kill web.

At China’s September 3, 2025 Victory Day parade, three YingJi missiles signaled a layered hypersonic anti-ship play. We decode propulsion clues, likely launch platforms, the A2/AD implications, and the counters that U.S. and allied navies can field now.

After years in the shadows, the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile is stepping into view. Test breadcrumbs and fresh FY26 budget lines point to a real shift in reach, loadouts, and tactics for U.S. and allied fighters facing peer air threats.

On September 22 to 23, 2025, China released video of Fujian launching and recovering J-35, J-15T and KJ-600 with electromagnetic catapults, signaling initial full deck capability. CATOBAR enables heavier loads, fixed wing AEW and higher sortie rates across the Indo-Pacific, reshaping allied planning.

With a September 10, 2025 liftoff, the Space Development Agency began a ten‑mission, month‑by‑month buildout of a low Earth orbit mesh that will track hypersonic threats and move fire control data at combat speed to shooters across the Indo-Pacific.

In January 2025 the Pentagon ended the AN/TPY-6 radar plan for Guam and shifted to a command and control first architecture built on JTMC, IBCS and Aegis C2. Here is how that pivot enables remote SM-6 shots against PRC missiles, and the risks between now and 2029.

The U.S. Army’s Typhon battery just made a public debut in Japan, putting land-based SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles inside the First Island Chain. This mobile mix compresses PLA decision time, plugs into allied kill-chains, and raises fresh questions about basing, survivability, and escalation.

Breakthrough sensing, AI fusion, and swarming autonomy are shrinking the ocean’s shadows and challenging nuclear‑sub stealth. What is real, what is hype, and how AUKUS can adapt fast with Pillar II trials, software reforms, and large undersea drones.

Israel says its Iron Beam high‑energy laser has finished testing and will enter IDF service in 2025. Here is how directed energy changes the cost per shot against drones and rockets, where physics still limits performance, and what this milestone means for U.S. and UK programs.

Lockheed Martin’s Vectis is the clearest signal yet that collaborative combat aircraft are moving from slides to squadrons. Here is what it means for survivability, price, F-35 teaming, competitors, and procurement in the next two years.

Australia just shifted Ghost Shark from prototypes to a funded fleet, with the first XL-AUVs planned to enter Royal Australian Navy service in early 2026. Here is how mass autonomy could reshape Indo-Pacific deterrence and how China may respond.

Israel says its Iron Beam laser will enter service in 2025 after completing final tests in September. A combat ready high energy laser could flip the economics of defending against rockets, mortars, and drones while reshaping tactics and procurement worldwide.

Unveiled in Lviv on Sept. 19, 2025, the TLK-1000 promises 2,000 km reach and a multi-ton payload. If it scales, autonomous deep-strike UUVs could upend naval strategy and trigger a global race to defend ports, bridges, cables, and fleets.

Israel is bringing Iron Beam into service while China publicly rolled out LY‑1 and OW5 lasers. Together they signal a real shift in counter‑drone and rocket defense, where cost per shot, physics limits, countermeasures, and U.S. fielding plans collide.

Fresh off the USSF-106 launch, NTS-3 brings software-defined, beam-steered navigation from lab to orbit. Here is how agile waveforms and regional protection could reshape contested PNT, user gear, and acquisition cycles.

On September 10, 2025 the Space Development Agency launched 21 Transport Layer satellites, the first operational slice of PWSA. A monthly cadence now aims to turn demos into real regional capacity with Link‑16 from orbit and a growing optical mesh.