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Introduced in 2025, the Group 3 drone is an inexpensive, one-way attack platform that can drop smaller munitions and provide non-kinetic effects
On July 4, 2026, the United States turns 250. At Cogs of War, we plan to mark the occasion the way we know best: by examining how Americans have built, adapted, and fought with technology in war.From David Bushnell’s Turtle submarine to the Gatling gun, nuclear warhead, GPS, and AI, American defense innovation has always been more about people working at the edge of constraint to deliver advantage in war — improvising, scaling, and sometimes breaking institutions — than any singular invention.
While much ink has been spilled over how 3D printing has enabled intense drone-on-drone warfare in Ukraine, the U.S. defense and intelligence communities have overlooked a stealthier development: Additive manufacturing is revolutionizing how guns are produced, fielded, and sustained in armed conflicts, especially by non-state actors. What once required a web of smuggling networks, foreign sponsors, and captured stockpiles can now be made with digital files and off-the-shelf parts. Even ammunition production, once considered an insurmountable barrier, is increasingly possible.
How many energy crises will it take before we stop betting our economies on a fragile oil market?The U.S. and Israeli war with Iran quickly morphed from a regional conflict into a global energy shock. Oil and gas markets have been volatile since the start of the war, with Brent crude oil prices rising 59 percent since Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important energy chokepoints. In the first half of 2025, about one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquified natural gas passed through the strait.
The U.S. Department of War on March 31 announced a $1.356 billion contract modification for Lockheed Martin Space to finance the engineering, integration, tooling, and long-lead industrial effort needed to bring the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) program from development into practical fielding in the Navy, providing a conventional hypersonic strike capability to the Zumwalt class destroyer fleet. Should the program not exceed allocated budgets, it will add $452 million to the cost of each of the three destroyers, bringing their costs up to approximately $9.5 billion each.
The United Kingdom, Japan and Italy are coordinating plans for the inclusion of Canada in the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), a next generation fighter program intended to deliver aircraft ready for active service by 2035. Canada has sought to join as an observer, which would allow the Canadian Defence Ministry to access selected classified program information without joining the development phase or sharing a similar burden of development costs.
The U.S. Army has deployed AH-64E Apache attack helicopters under the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade to Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania, across the border from the ongoing war effort in Ukraine. The facility has increasingly served as a central node for the U.S. and other NATO members’ operations in the Black Sea, and has taken on growing significance following the outbreak of full scale hostilities in the Ukrainian theatre in February 2022. The deployment of Apaches closely follows the U.S.
Iranian ballistic missile striking Bahrain, reportedly targeting the headquarters of the U.S. 5th Fleet.
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DOW released the following press release today:
Department of War Forges Landmark Agreement to Triple PAC-3 Seeker Production, Bolstering the Arsenal of Freedom
The Department of War, in partnership with Boeing and Lockheed Martin, today announced a landmark framework agreement to triple the production capacity of seekers for the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3®) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE).