Israel Attacks Tyre Hospital, Killing Four and Wounding 127

How Interceptor Missiles Work: The Technology Behind Stopping Missiles In Mid-Air Authored by Kaif Shaikh via Interesting Engineering, Intercepting a missile sounds straightforward. Launch another missile at it before it reaches its target. In reality, it is one of the most technically demanding challenges of defense. Here's how modern interceptor missiles protect against aircraft, cruise missiles, and ballistic threats.Getty Images Unlike offensive missiles, interceptor missiles must detect, track, calculate, and collide with a target that may be traveling several times the speed of sound, often within a matter of minutes. Some even destroy...

Space Weapons Grabbed MSM Headlines, But USAF Secretary Hinted What Could Replace MQ-9 Reaper The Air & Space Forces Association's Air, Space & Cyber Conference opened earlier this week at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink's disclosure that the Space Force had launched "space control weapons" into orbit quickly dominated the news cycle. Beyond the USAF's new space warfare capabilities, Meink's remarks about the service's plan to build out an upgraded unmanned aircraft fleet over the next six years warrant...

Jefferies, Goldman, Now Stifel: Wall Street Races To Cover Almonty As "Owning The Bottlenecks" Theme Gains Momentum A sense of urgency is building across Wall Street as notable desks push clients toward the critical materials theme we already laid out for readers, as the Trump administration accelerates efforts to rebuild conflict-free supply chains and reduce dependence on China. Resource nationalism and the looming rearmament supercycle are turning secure access to critical materials into both a national security priority and a multiyear investment theme. For miners already producing conflict-free critical materials outside...