#Iran

The Pentagon is shifting into overdrive in its quest to close America’s missile defense gap, with the US Army’s FY2026 budget calling for a massive scale-up in PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptor purchases.

The European Union’s plan to ban refined products made from Russian oil comes at the same time the war between Israel and Iran threatens to send global crude prices soaring—and nowhere do these two storylines intersect more dangerously than in Moscow’s budget.

Russia has begun fielding a newly upgraded version of its Geran-2 suicide drone—based on the Iranian Shahed-136 design—featuring artificial intelligence and a range of advanced electronic components.