Aerospace and Defence Industry

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly malicious states are jamming and spoofing GPS signals affecting civilian and military operations so now the UK is trying…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The ability to physically simulate gravity has lots of civilian and military benefits, and China’s new facility is the world’s…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China is increasingly sanctioning the export of rare earth metals which are used in everything from computer chips to batteries,…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Hypersonic startups are in vogue right now but despite huge advances most are going bankrupt before their products see the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the movies all space craft just fly into orbit – that’s Single Stage to Orbit – and today no…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Militaries around the world are developing drone swarms that can swamp and destroy enemy targets, and in this first of…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Decades ago humans would try to visualise the outcomes of things in our heads, but what now we can run…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF American F-22’s are supersonic, China’s new drones will be hypersonic, so just how does a Mach 11 aircraft kill a…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to radar technology there’s a stealth war going on with China trying to develop more sensitive radar…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to communicate underwater is incredibly difficult but also incredibly useful and important, and the Chinese have just bested…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if you could launch objects into space without having to use propellant? That’s the subject of a heated scientific…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI gets faster at creating new drugs we need a way to test, trial, and approve them at speed…