2026Channel
Portfolio expanded across five domains
The capability portfolio now spans land, sea, sky, space and cyber, bringing independent manufacturers together under a single accountable channel.
Notes from the Unstrat desk.
Selected, non-attributable updates on the portfolio, programmes and the governance that frames every engagement.
Capabilities are added, domains expand and procurement positions change. Each update records one such change and its date.
2026Space
Sovereign space programmes in development
Space-infrastructure programmes covering satellites, ground segment and operator training are in development with partner manufacturers for national customers.
2026Cyber
Critical-infrastructure hardening engagements
Defensive and offensive cyber engagements are extending to the control systems behind power, water and finance across priority markets.
2026Compliance
End-use governance reaffirmed
All engagements continue to require classification review and end-user-certificate verification before any capability is represented to a market.
Aug 2026Insights
The real price of a weapons system is the permission slip
Lt Col H F Rangwala (Retd) on why buyers under-count the political conditions attached to a defence purchase. The invoice price is the one that gets negotiated hard. The permission slip is the one that decides what you may actually do with it.
Aug 2026Insights
The best system for a country is usually assembled, not bought
Lt Col H F Rangwala (Retd) on why no single prime is best at everything, and how an accountable party in the middle delivers best-of-breed capability without making the buyer the integrator.
Portfolio changes
New systems and delivery arrangements can widen the options available to a programme. Clarifications can narrow them. Both belong in the record.
Long programmes, changing suppliers
A multi-year programme may outlast a supplier's original portfolio. Dated changes show whether relevant capability and support are expanding or standing still.
Dates
Entries use the most precise date available for the recorded change.
Accountability
A dated addition or clarification gives buyers a statement they can return to later. Quietly revising the account does not.
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