// Global Analysis Archive
Source reporting describes the PLA’s December 29–30, 2025 “Justice Mission 2025” drills as the largest near Taiwan in over three years, emphasizing blockade-style operations, extensive air activity, and live-fire elements. The document suggests a broader pattern of iterative exercises since 2022, complemented by persistent patrol activity and capability experimentation, while raising questions about blockade sustainment under external interference.
The 2026 Singapore Airshow highlighted a defense-industrial pivot toward low-cost, mass-producible unmanned systems, manpower-saving training technologies, and counter-UAV concepts constrained by energy demands. It also signaled intensifying supply-chain realignment driven by geopolitical alignment and resilience, alongside Singapore’s push to integrate space capabilities via a new national space agency.
According to SCMP, researchers at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics flight-tested an aerodynamic thrust-vectoring nozzle on a high-subsonic drone, claiming improved manoeuvrability without complex moving parts. The demonstration could support lighter, more maintainable high-performance UAV designs, though key performance metrics and scalability remain unclear from the source.
Source reporting describes the PLA’s December 29–30, 2025 “Justice Mission 2025” drills as the largest near Taiwan in over three years, emphasizing blockade-style operations, extensive air activity, and live-fire elements. The document suggests a broader pattern of iterative exercises since 2022, complemented by persistent patrol activity and capability experimentation, while raising questions about blockade sustainment under external interference.
The 2026 Singapore Airshow highlighted a defense-industrial pivot toward low-cost, mass-producible unmanned systems, manpower-saving training technologies, and counter-UAV concepts constrained by energy demands. It also signaled intensifying supply-chain realignment driven by geopolitical alignment and resilience, alongside Singapore’s push to integrate space capabilities via a new national space agency.
According to SCMP, researchers at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics flight-tested an aerodynamic thrust-vectoring nozzle on a high-subsonic drone, claiming improved manoeuvrability without complex moving parts. The demonstration could support lighter, more maintainable high-performance UAV designs, though key performance metrics and scalability remain unclear from the source.
| ID | Title | Category | Date | Views | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RPT-1160 | Justice Mission 2025: PLA Blockade Simulation Near Taiwan Signals Evolving Coercive Playbook | Taiwan Strait | 2026-02-15 | 0 | ACCESS » |
| RPT-1024 | Singapore Airshow 2026 Signals Asia’s Shift to Attritable Drones, Trusted Supply Chains, and Space-Enabled Resilience | Defense Industry | 2026-02-12 | 0 | ACCESS » |
| RPT-863 | China Flight-Tests No-Moving-Parts Thrust Vectoring Nozzle on High-Subsonic UAV | China | 2026-02-08 | 0 | ACCESS » |