As 2025 recedes in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to look at the combat-aircraft stories that are likely to make news in 2026. Anyone waiting for the Xian H-20 shoe to drop over the holiday …
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Indonesia’s establishment of its Mineral Industry Agency is critical in realising its vision of resource nationalism, independence in military production, and strategic autonomy. By establishing a national critical minerals supply chain, Indonesia can enhance its …
Editors’ picks for 2025: ‘Europe’s lesson for Australia: invest in defence now, or spend more later’
Instead of learning from Europe’s mistakes in the decade leading into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine—underinvesting in defence, increasing trade with a strategic adversary and expecting the United States to disproportionately carry the security burden—Australia …
The notable thing was the timing. In back-to-back strikes on Russian air power from 18 to 20 December, the Ukrainian state security agency, the vaunted SBU, launched long-range attack drones at Russian warplanes at Belbek …
Beijing deployed a naval task group to the waters around Australia for three related reasons. First, to demonstrate the reach and potency of Chinese sea power and to put Australia on notice that it is …
As the title implies, Iain MacGregor’s The Hiroshima Men is a people-centric history of the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945. In my view it’s only partially successful in that aim. In telling the stories …
When governments talk about deterrence, they usually mean doctrine, platforms and weapons. Yet modern power rests equally on the infrastructure that sustains a nation under stress. The capacity to keep networks online, data protected and …
The United States and China are not the only ones who are designing great range into their upcoming combat aircraft. Britain, Italy and Japan have made the same decision. The US is developing the Northrop …
Telecommunications once seemed like the passive layer of critical infrastructure—pipes and switches that connected everything yet rarely drew attention. That perception ended long ago, particularly with the transition to 5G ecosystems. Nokia’s 2025 Threat Intelligence …
They say you can’t get anything done by sitting on your rear end, but US autonomy and unmanned systems specialist Shield AI expects to prove that wrong as it enters the realm of large uncrewed …
Fully armed with anti-air, anti-surface and anti-submarine weaponry, US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyers have been successfully intercepting Houthi missiles and uncrewed aerial vehicles in the Red Sea since late 2023. Although successful in execution, the …
China is clearly thinking ambitiously about long-range power projection with autonomous aircraft. Pictures have emerged of large new Chinese uncrewed aircraft of a configuration remarkably like the United States’ B-2A Spirit and B-21 Raider bombers. …