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What capability gap does Directed Energy Weapons in 2025–2035 address?
This source-linked brief explains why Directed Energy Weapons in 2025–2035 is strategically relevant. Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) – principally high-energy lasers (HEL) and high-power microwave (HPM) systems – are emerging from decades of R&D into operational reality. Between 2025 and 2035, militaries are moving these technologies…
What makes Isar Aerospace relevant to the European defence technology base?
This note situates Isar Aerospace within the question of European strategic autonomy. Europe’s ability to put its own satellites into orbit has entered a pivotal new era, driven by an ambitious startup aiming to fill the gap left by retired and unavailable launchers. Isar Aerospace, a German NewSpace company founded in 2018, is building…
What makes Zelestium Technologies relevant to the European defence technology base?
This public note looks at Zelestium Technologies. European defence and technology circles are quietly taking notice of a small Spanish battery innovator with outsized ambitions. Zelestium Technologies, based in Soria, Spain, is developing advanced aluminium-ion and aluminium-air batteries – a novel class of “smart” energy storage systems…