Defense industry

Winning without victory: Why the real war with Iran starts now-opinion

The war with Iran may have ended. The strategic contest has not.

A boy raises his fist while standing on a giant Iranian flag during the funeral of Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' navy, alongside others killed in US-Israeli strikes on Iran at Enghelab Square in Tehran on April 1, 2026.
ThirdEye drone detection system

EagleNXT deepens buying spree in Israel with $10m. investment in ThirdEye Systems

A drone flying with R2 Wireless to see the invisible battlespace

R2 Wireless is making the invisible battlespace visible

Chen Linchevsky (Left), Jason Wolf (Middle), and Gil Friedlander (Right).

From crisis to capital: Iron Nation launches $60 million to help Israeli startups expand to US


Sharing the sky: Urban air mobility and the questions we must answer before we fly-opinion

It's a different kind of traffic, but every hard problem in UAM is a hard problem in defense.

AIR One eVTOL

Trump proposes 'historic' defense spending budget, eyes 10% cut to other federal programs

US President Donald Trump's proposal for 2027 includes increasing defense spending from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion, while cutting back on major federal departments such as health and agriculture.

US President Donald Trump attends the signing ceremony for an execituve order on mail ballots, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, March 31, 2026.

Israeli 3D-printing firm joins major Pentagon manufacturing program

Stratasys will help the US military qualify and scale 3D-printed parts faster, as the Pentagon pushes to strengthen supply chains and modernize aging platforms.

A US Air Force C-17A Globemaster III lands at RAF Fairford in south-west England on March 8, 2026.

India receives first batch of NEGEV 7.62 LMGs from Israel’s IWI

The delivery marks the opening phase of a much larger 41,000‑unit order signed in August 2024. An additional 4,000 are scheduled to be delivered later this year.

IWI's Negev 7 Light Machine Gun

Pentagon denies report of Hegseth-linked pre-strike defense investments

Hegseth's Morgan Stanley broker contacted BlackRock in February about making a multimillion-dollar investment, while the Pentagon's spokesperson called the story "entirely false and fabricated."

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth described Israel as a true ally during a press conference at the Pentagon on March 2, in Arlington, Virginia.

The Janus frontier: One innovation, two destinies- opinion

One face is turned toward security, while the other is turned toward the global commercial frontier to drive economic growth and redefining civilian life

An unmanned ground vehicle is seen next to a counter UAS system A1-Falke by Argus Interception during the defence exercise "Red Storm Bravo" in which civilian and military coordination is trained and led by German army Bundeswehr in Hamburg, Germany, September 26, 2025

XTEND, ParaZero to advance autonomous drone‑interception capabilities

The collaboration enables the drone to autonomously pursue, capture, and secure an enemy drone by using a physical net launched for capture. 

Computer generated image is for illustrative purposes

The real constraint in defense tech isn’t innovation, it’s execution at scale- opinion

the critical question is no longer who can invent the next breakthrough system. It's who can build, deploy, and sustain it at an industrial scale?

A detail of ammunition at a production line as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Defence Minister Boris Pistorius visit the future site of an arms factory where weapons maker Rheinmetall plans to produce artilleries from 2025, in Unterluess, Germany

US defense giant taps Israeli drone navigation tech built for jammed battlefields

ASIO’s drone navigation technology is designed to keep unmanned aircraft on course even when GPS is jammed or denied in combat.

NOCTA autonomous navigation system

US interceptor stockpiles being depleted by Iran war, could take years to replenish

The Payne Institute estimates that the war has consumed about a third of the THAAD missile stockpile, whose annual production rate does not exceed about 100

US President Donald Trump takes a look at a Lockheed Martin THAAD anti-ballistic missile launcher at the White House, July 15, 2019