Pentagon agrees further frameworks to expand production of missiles, in particular PrSM and TALON 03/04/2026 | Gabriele Molinelli Lockheed Martin will invest to produce more PrSM, faster. BAE for the seekers for THAAD’s missiles, and Honeywell for key components

L3Harris for the launch and recovery of drones from SSN torpedo tubes 03/04/2026 | Gabriele Molinelli L3 Harris will deliver the torpedo tube launch and recovery assembly and its Iver4 900 series AUVs

Iran: USS BUSH Carrier Strike Group departs, set to replace USS FORD 01/04/2026 | EDITORIAL TEAM Yesterday, March 31, the aircraft carrier USS BUSH and its Carrier Strike Group (CSG) departed from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, on a “scheduled deployment.” Although the U.S. Navy has not officially confirmed it, it is clear that the CSG is heading toward the Eastern Mediterranean, in order to reinforce the U.S. military… [read more]

Iran war strains NATO cohesion 01/04/2026 | EDITORIAL TEAM The war in Iran is putting NATO under severe strain, despite diplomatic - and other - efforts by NATO Secretary General Rutte, who is struggling to hold together the fragments of an Alliance exposed to the steamroller of Trump-era policies. The latest blow to NATO’s foundations has come from U.S. Secretary of… [read more]

Japan deploys first operational hypersonic glide weapon 01/04/2026 | Mike Rajkumar The systems have been deployed with JGSDF units at Camp Kengun and Camp Fuji for island defence operations. 

The geopolitics of debt: US treasuries turn into financial ammunition 01/04/2026 | Go-Spa Consulting For decades, the global financial architecture functioned as an orderly infrastructure: a corridor of stability in which the free flow of capital aimed at maximising returns in an environment of low geopolitical risk. That world looks very different today.

The military use of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors 01/04/2026 | Claudio Boccalatte Progress in the field of small-scale civil nuclear reactors, particularly in safety and versatility, is opening the way to their possible wider use on naval combatants and to their use in the wider military domain, especially on land – an option currently being explored especially in the United States.

Fourth Gulf War: military analysis of the first phase of operations 31/03/2026 | Pietro Batacchi, Tommaso Massa, Andrea Mottola, Carolina Paizs At dawn on 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel opened hostilities against Iran, launching a series of so-called ‘pre-emptive’ air raids and setting in motion a war whose duration and outcome remain uncertain.

Ukraine’s long-range stand-off capabilities 31/03/2026 | Igor Markic The developments observed in 2025, and the opening months of 2026, have confirmed how far Ukraine has come in the domestic production of long-range strike systems. This shift is not only a matter of incremental technological progress; it is quite possible the emergence of trends that may end up rewriting… [read more]

Anduril and Palantir reported to be leading on GOLDEN DOME software 31/03/2026 | Gabriele Molinelli The two companies are reported to be at the heart of development of the software that will network the sensors and interceptors needed to realize the DOME vision.