Every issue, on file.
Teardowns, playbooks, and founder briefings. Newest first. Live from the wire.
- № 01Jun 12, 2026
The Helsing Playbook
How a software company out-raised the metal-benders — and then bought the metal.…
Read issue → - № 02Jun 12, 2026
The Anduril Playbook
How a company built products nobody ordered — and made the customer pay full price.…
Read issue → - № 03Jun 26, 2026
Why Every Defense-Tech Careers Page Is Broken
A funding round is a press release. A product page is a sales pitch. A careers page is a confession.…
Read issue → - № 04Jul 12, 2026
The Quantum Systems Playbook
How betting a decade on one product beat the rivals who raised far more capital.…
Read issue → - № 05Jul 26, 2026
The Stark Playbook
From founding to a half-billion valuation in about a year. The case for moving first.…
Read issue → - № 06Aug 03, 2026
The Aselsan Playbook
How a state-founded manufacturer used the public stock market to fund itself for 36 years — and became the most valuable company on its home exchange.…
Read issue → - № 07Aug 12, 2026
The ARX Playbook
The case for the unglamorous.…
Read issue → - № 08Aug 14, 2026
The Shield AI Playbook
Why the aircraft was never the point — and how making the software the product turned a defense startup into a $12.7B autonomy platform.…
Read issue → - № 09Aug 20, 2026
Weekly Transmission — August 14, 2026
The week the industry bought capability instead of building it. Six moves, one operator lesson each.…
Read issue → - № 10Aug 26, 2026
The Cluster Playbook
Why one country became the engine room of European defense tech.…
Read issue → - № 11Aug 31, 2026
The Rocket Lab Playbook
The case against the cluster: how building far from every hub became the moat.…
Read issue → - № 12Sep 04, 2026
Weekly Transmission — September 4, 2026
The week the checks skipped the platform and bought the layer around it: launch, satellites, the optics inside them, and the drone-killer. Five moves, one operator lesson each.…
Read issue → - № 13Sep 07, 2026
The Skydio Playbook
The case for the cluster: paying the highest rent on Earth on purpose — then breaking the one promise it was built on.…
Read issue → - № 14Sep 14, 2026
The Saronic Playbook
How a Navy SEAL built a new class of warship — and a $9 billion company — by owning the shipyard nobody else wanted.…
Read issue → - № 15Sep 18, 2026
Weekly Transmission — September 18, 2026
This week the money and the contracts came in stages: milestone checks, unexercised options, financing that firms up only after the next raise lands. Six moves, one operator lesson each.…
Read issue → - № 16Sep 21, 2026
The Castelion Playbook
Three SpaceX alumni took the cheapest idea in defense — build it like a rocket — into its most monopolized corner. The case for attacking price.…
Read issue → - № 17Sep 25, 2026
Weekly Transmission — September 25, 2026
This week the capital went to companies that had already flown: logged hours, live contracts, real revenue. Five moves, one operator lesson each.…
Read issue → - № 18Sep 28, 2026
The Hadrian Playbook
Hadrian doesn't sell you the part. It sells the automated factory that makes the part — and turned a barista into a machinist in thirty days. The case for selling the means of production.…
Read issue → - № 19Oct 05, 2026
The Applied Intuition Playbook
How a company that never built the robot won the autonomy market — by selling everyone else the tools to build theirs.…
Read issue → - № 20Oct 12, 2026
The Hermeus Playbook
How to build the world's fastest aircraft without building it first — the case for sequencing an impossible product one flying prototype at a time.…
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