US military

Hypersonic Race Heats Up: US Preps ‘Blackbeard’ Missile for Mobile Launchers

Pentagon Backs New Hypersonic Strike Weapon In a major move for U.S. long-range firepower, California-based startup Castelion announced it won “multiple awards” to integrate its Blackbeard hypersonic missile with U.S. Army and Navy systems breakingdefense.com. The contracts, revealed on Oct. 24, are the first platform-integration deals for Blackbeard and will allow live-fire testing with real military launchers. “These integration contracts validate that affordability and speed are critical to modern deterrence,” said Bryon Hargis, Castelion’s CEO, highlighting the Pentagon’s demand for faster and cheaper weapons development foxbusiness.com. The ultimate goal is to enable the U.S. military to field hypersonic missiles across

26 October 2025

Drone Warfare and Developments in Ukraine (2024–2025)

High-Stakes Drone Showdown: Why the U.S. Is Scrambling to Catch Up with Russia in Ukraine’s War

Drones Take Center Stage in the Ukraine War Unmanned aerial vehicles – drones – have become central to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, redefining how wars are fought. What began in 2022 with ad-hoc use of hobby drones to spot artillery has exploded into a full-scale “drone war.” Both Russia and Ukraine now deploy vast fleets of drones on the front lines, from tiny quadcopters to loitering munitions (self-destructing attack drones). Analysts note this war is built “not around a few elite systems but around millions of small, cheap, and expendable drones deployed by soldiers at the front”. These drones perform reconnaissance,

16 September 2025

Drones · Geopolitics · Military · Technology · Ukraine War

Inside America’s Silent Sentinels: The Untold Story of GSSAP in Space Surveillance

GSSAP-1 and GSSAP-2 were launched on July 28, 2014 aboard a Delta IV M+(4,2) from Cape Canaveral, accompanied by the ANGELS experimental satellite. The GSSAP satellites operate in near-geosynchronous orbit roughly 35,900 km (22,300 miles) above Earth and function as a “neighborhood watch” for the GEO belt, providing space situational awareness to USSPACECOM. Built by Northrop Grumman on the GeoStar-1 bus, GSSAP satellites are three-axis stabilized and carry high-resolution optical sensors capable of rendezvous and proximity operations with other GEO objects. Each GSSAP spacecraft carries limited onboard propellant, meaning its maneuvering life spans only a few years before it must

5 June 2025

GSSAP · Military · NYSE:NOC · Space · Surveillance · Technology