The Pentagon has a long-standing policy of not publicizing hypersonic missile tests before they happen, except for safety notices for civilian airplanes and ships downrange. But the Defense Department declared the previous Dark Eagle test flight a success within a few hours of the launch, and did not do so this time. Hypersonic missiles offer … Read more
How Vulnerable Is the German Judiciary? Over the past 18 months, we have studied what would happen if authoritarian populists gained control over state power in the Eastern German state of Thuringia. We travelled across the entire Federal Republic to better understand this question and bring our scenarios to public attention. In our more than … Read more
Last time we checked in on terrifying drone developments in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainians were dropping molten thermite along Russian trench lines and attaching surface-to-air missiles to naval drones. Possessing a far smaller population than Russia, Ukraine has pinned its hopes in significant part on drone warfare, and hundreds of companies and … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our FirstFT newsletter. Subscribers can sign up to our Asia, Europe/Africa or Americas edition to get the newsletter delivered every weekday morning. Explore all of our newsletters here Good morning and welcome back to FirstFT Asia. Markets are set for turmoil today after Donald Trump launched a global … Read more