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Beyond the Airframe: How Advanced Materials Are Shaping the Future of Air Power

Key Points : Future air power increasingly relies on distributed, autonomous and networked operations. Collaborative Combat Aircraft and unmanned systems are redefining mass, capability and survivability. Ukraine demonstrates the operational value of scalable, rapidly adaptable air systems. Advanced materials increasingly enable endurance, survivability and operational...
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Weekly Strategic Brief – 38

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How can maritime drones navigate/survive in a jammed environment?

Key Points : Electronic warfare threatens the core functionality of maritime robotics by actively targeting maritime drones’  ability to navigate...

Manned-Unmanned Teaming: Why Nations Are Investing

Key Points : Pilot scarcity, force structure constraints, and China's public MUM-T demonstration are driving a procurement surge that is...

The Rise of the Digital Warrior: How Simulation Is Reshaping Personnel Readiness for Modern War

Military simulation has evolved from a cost-saving supplement into a core pillar of combat readiness. The evidence from Ukraine,...

Solving the European Naval Dilemma with Modular Mass

Key points : • European navies are too small to win• Buying off-the-shelf unmanned vessels is a dead end  • EUROGUARD...

U.S.-China Nuclear Competition Beneath the South China Sea

Key Points : $3.4 trillion in annual trade depends on sustained South China Sea deterrence. China's Bastion doctrine extends nuclear deterrence...

Swarm UUVs and the Weaponization of the Undersea Domain

Key Points : Swarm UUVs expand sea denial and deterrence through scalable, distributed undersea operations. AI and autonomy are transforming UUVs...

From Cloud to Combat: NATO’s Data Warfighting Model

Key Points: • NATO’s agreement with Google Cloud signals cloud’s shift into the battlespace• Cloud has moved from support infrastructure...

China’s Semiconductor “Manhattan Project”: Breaking the EUV Monopoly

Key Points: • Monopoly Disrupted: China tested a prototype EUV machine, challenging ASML’s long-standing global monopoly.• Scale: A secret, state-funded...

Counter-Drone Warfare: The Global Race to Neutralize Swarms and Loitering Munitions

Key Points: • Cheap loitering munitions and commercial drones have broken the “one missile per target” air-defence model, creating an...