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We all know that China’s primary geopolitical objective is to reunite Taiwan with the Mainland, either by peaceful means or by force. Part of this effort is to keep the United States out of the Taiwan Strait and stop the Americans from interfering. This means that the Chinese want to play defense against the United States, and they have created a new “Great Wall” of anti-ship missiles to keep the Americans and their aircraft carriers down and out in East Asia.

Keeping the Americans Down and Out in the Indo-Pacific

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept.

The Eurofighter Typhoon’s CAPTOR-E AESA radar is mounted on a pivoting mechanism that gives the aircraft a wider field of view than any rival fighter. The Tranche 4 aircraft recently unveiled by Germany received the ECRS Mk 1 AESA radar, developed jointly by Italy, the UK and Germany. The Tranche 5 — still under development — will reach operational status in the 2030s. Phase 1 Enhancements turned the Typhoon from an air superiority fighter into a multirole aircraft capable of air-to-air and air-to-ground missions in the same sortie.

Ukraine’s June 2025 Operation Spiderweb destroyed roughly 7 Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers and damaged 2 others in a single coordinated strike — the worst Russian bomber loss since the Second World War. Ukrainian first-person view drones were smuggled deep inside Russia in hidden compartments atop commercial transport trucks and struck Olenya, Belaya, and other air bases at the same time. Across the war, Ukraine has damaged or destroyed about a dozen Russian Tu-95s.

Sam LaGrone, USNI News
Spreading the construction of the Trump-class battleship across several different manufacturing locations is key to the Navy’s current plan to build the almost…

The WarZone
Pairing uncrewed underwater vehicles and SEALs in submersibles opens the door to new operational possibilities, but there are challenges.

James F. Tobin, RealClearDefense
In the past year, Washington has begun to treat maritime power as what it truly is: national security infrastructure.

Global Defense News
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Schogol, T&P
The Scorpion Light 81mm mobile mortar system allows crews to digitally enter data needed to hit targets and automatically moves the tube into firing position.

The South Korean Defence Project Promotion Committee on May 22 approved a $352 million contract to procure U.S. SM-6 anti-ballistic missiles, which were designed for integration on the Mk-41 vertical launch systems that are integrated onto the country’s destroyers. Shortages of the missiles following the U.S. assault on Iran are thought to have contributed to a protracted delivery schedule, with the missiles are only expected to become operational in 2033. The SM-6 is the newest type of anti-ballistic missile in the U.S. Navy’s arsenal, and was previously in service only in the U.S.

This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Catarina Buchatskiy, the co-founder and director of analytics at the Snake Island Institute, a Kyiv-based defense analytics center, and Viktoriia Honcharuk, the institute’s director of defense technologies. We asked them to share their views on how Ukraine’s military and defense firms turn battlefield feedback into rapid innovation, what Western investors and defense tech companies can learn from Ukraine, and what a future Ukraine-West defense industrial partnership might look like.