4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (775+ words) Y’all ever heard the one about the deep-precision-strike company that built missiles for a whole two years before emerging from stealth with a quarter of a million in funding and a cap table stacked with the biggest names in defense…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (461+ words) Never really thought we’d be writing about mining and refining as we’re a defense publication and all, but here we are. On Friday, the Pentagon announced two mega investments in yet more domestic critical minerals supply: “To build a robust…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (606+ words) The interceptor space is getting mighty busy these days, but a San Francisco-based startup is betting it’ll be able to stand out from the crowd by making them teeny tiny, mass-deployable, and purpose-built to counter FPV swarm attacks. Some of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (576+ words) Business is booming for the companies in the boom business. Late last week, the Navy’s Precision Strike Weapons office awarded California-based Kongsberg subsidiary Zone 5 Technologies $65M to develop a maritime strike variant of its Rusty Dagger low-cost cruise missile for US…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (717+ words) We don’t have to tell you the interceptor shortage is very real and very dire, but much of this discussion focuses on Group 3 (i.e., Shahed-type) UAS threats. Russia and Iran certainly have used smaller, cheaper drones en masse, but most…...