Lockheed-Martin
3 articles
- The Directed-Energy Power Stack: Power and Cooling Set the Limit
Directed-energy performance depends less on the laser emitter than on power generation, conditioning, heat rejection, and beam control. This supplier layer becomes commercially significant when deployments reach hundreds of systems or individual weapons scale into the hundreds of kilowatts.
- F-35 Sustainment Runs on Accountable Custody
F-35 readiness depends on government-controlled visibility and accountable custody across its global spares, repair, and transport network.
- The Missile Throughput Constraint: U.S. Air Defense Is Gated by Physics
U.S. interceptor consumption exceeds industrial output. This analysis maps the six physical constraints between appropriations and finished missiles, separating real capacity expansion from nominal demand.