The week in defense tech and the battlefield.
Anduril pledges $3.7 billion for a submarine yard, Shield AI matches the Navy dollar for dollar, Raytheon starts SM-3 work before a price is set. Ukraine's interceptor drones are still short of engines.
Why NATO's three top spenders belong in the Poland meeting, plus Germany's interceptor order
Camera navigation on Russia's jet Gerans, machine-vision guns over Kyiv, guidance software on Ukraine's FPVs. The new command and the AI fighters are dated 2027 and later.
Russia fires training missiles and $10,000 drones at the defense. The West's answers arrive in 2028.