Defense Tech

A Soviet debt deal gave South Korea a fleet of Russian helicopters that became indispensable for fighting wildfires. More than 30 years later, Dallas Analytics has traced efforts to keep those aircraft flying back toward sanctioned Russian aviation companies—turning a firefighting necessity into an uncomfortable national-security problem.

Europe’s missile production is running into a critical bottleneck: solid rocket propellant. Ukraine’s Fire Point is taking production to Denmark, where safety requirements have forced it to build an entirely new factory, complete with 90-centimeter reinforced-concrete walls.

Britain is clearing a major remaining barrier to Ukraine's domestic production of Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles. What are these missiles, and why are they so important for Ukraine?