Elbit America awarded contract to develop the Soldier Borne Mission Command system 19/03/2026 | Gabriele Molinelli Other Transaction Authority (OTA) contract valued at $120.5 million assigned to Elbit America to develop SBMC

IDF strike bridges along the Litani River: operations expand in southern Lebanon 19/03/2026 | Carolina Paizs Military update: the IDF have initiated initial ground operations along the border deploying the 91st Reserve Division GALILEE, the 210th Division BASHAN (with elements of the 810th Mountain Brigade), the 146th Reserve Division, and the 162nd Division. Hezbollah has continued to strike northern Israel regularly.

Oil&Gas, drones and missiles: the Middle East's energy infrastructure war is now open 19/03/2026 | Editorial Team Israeli airstrike on March 18 against the onshore processing hub of Asaluyeh (pictured) located on the Iranian coast triggered Tehran's response with strikes  against Gulf energy facilities: Ras Laffan and Mesaieed in Qatar, SAMREF and Jubail in Saudi Arabia, Al Hosn in the UAE, and the refinery of Haifa in Israel itself.

Sea mines reloaded - Iran, TURSO, MALAMAN, MURENA, and the future of naval ambush 18/03/2026 | Marco Giulio Barone As Iran threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz, an old weapon is back under the spotlight: sea mines, from crude contact spheres to modern smart seabed killers. An overview of today's interdition capabilities 

Kraken to supply 20 USV K3 to the Royal Navy under project BEEHIVE 18/03/2026 | Gabriele Molinelli The new USV flotilla will support tactics and capability development and home waters ops.

F-22 RAPTOR and MQ-20 drone complete manned-unmanned teaming exercise 18/03/2026 | Fabio Di Felice According to a press release by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI), the company and the US Air Force (USAF) have recently completed a successful manned-unmanned teamed demonstration using an F-22 RAPTOR and an MQ-20 AVENGER unmanned aircraft. This represents another step forward on integrating autonomous systems into tactical fighter… [read more]

The EU and the Iran crisis: tightrope walking amid growing assertiveness 17/03/2026 | Caterina Tani (reporting from Brussels) Kaja Kallas revealed a conversation with UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the possibility of replicating a Black Sea-style grain corridor in the Strait of Hormuz - a security channel to prevent the collapse of global supply chains. The EU is also expanding coordination with global partners, primarily India.

Clearing the chokepoints: conversation on sea mines with underwater technologies specialist RTsys 17/03/2026 | Marco Giulio Barone In this interview, RTsys’ Sylvain Paquereau explains how naval mines from Ukraine to the Strait of Hormuz expose NATO navies—and how agile autonomous MCM systems could rapidly change the balance at sea.

Iran: Kharg Island, a testing ground for the "new" Marines? 17/03/2026 | Pietro Batacchi A potential operation to capture Kharg would represent a major test case for the US Marine Corps and for the doctrinal innovations introduced since 2019 to operate inside the adversary’s firing zone as a Stand-In Force.

DARPA names new X plane the X-76, to be build by Bell 17/03/2026 | Gabriele Molinelli Born out of project SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies (SPRINT), it’ll be an advanced VTOL platform.