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Army Recognition’s video report from Euronaval 2026 offered a useful snapshot of where unmanned maritime systems now sit in the market. It featured Israel’s Elbit Systems, Croatia’s Shadow Nautics, the…
This week’s In Briefs on Second Line of Defense covered thirteen items across Europe, the Indo-Pacific and Russia’s war economy. Euronaval 2026 dominated the news cycle, and we followed it…
There is a simple proposition at the heart of the debate over artificial intelligence in military sustainment, and it is easy to lose sight of amid the excitement about new…
Originally published in Breaking Defense, September 4, 2026 Rear Adm. Max “Pepper” McCoy, the Chief of Naval Air Training, describes the system he runs as a factory conveyor belt: the…
Review by Robbin Laird, Research Fellow, Sir Richard Williams Foudation
On 19 October, Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy revealed three capabilities of the Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous underwater vehicle: laying sea mines, launching Altius aerial drones, and carrying underwater supplies.…
By Robbin Laird
For three decades, “generation” has been a word we attach to aircraft: fourth, fifth, now sixth. The label implies that the next step forward is a better machine. The Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s 1 October seminar in Canberra, The Requirement for Air Combat Mass
