Sep 28, 2026 · 16 min · 13 segments
Global DI Rundown is a concise, weekly summary of key defense industry happenings around the world. It provides listeners with an easy to understand approach to staying on top of key happenings in the…
Let's start in the Middle East, where the war around the Strait of Hormuz is grinding down shipping traffic even as the front lines stay largely frozen.
According to Reuters, only 17 commodity vessels made it through the strait over the weekend, down sharply from 37 the week before, as tension between the United States and Iran remains in a stalemate.
Before the war began back in February, the Strait handled around 125 large commercial vessels a day and carried about a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas, so today's trickle shows just how much normal trade has been disrupted.
On Monday, the UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre said an unknown projectile struck a tanker as it entered the strait, injuring two crew members slightly before the ship continued on its own power, according to the Associated Press.
At the southern end of the Red Sea, traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait told a similar story.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Hussein Moabvedi, warned on state media that, quote, the war is not over, saying Iran would bring new weapons with new capabilities into the fight and change its targets if the United States escalates further.
The Associated Press reports that fighting has reignited between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Yemen's Saudi-backed government, and Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the UK has agreed to provide limited military support to Saudi Arabia, with the Royal Air Force refuelling Saudi aircraft in mid-air for the next few weeks.
Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi used the anniversary of his group's takeover of the capital to demand an end to what he called Saudi aggression and the decade-long blockade on Houthi-held areas.
The World Health Organization reported that 164 people were killed and 516 wounded in Yemen between September 13 and 18 alone, bringing the toll since early August to 674 deaths, while the International Organization for Migration said more than 129,000 people have now been displaced across seven provinces, with some families forced to flee more than once.
Let's start in the Middle East, where the war around the Strait of Hormuz is grinding down shipping traffic even as the front lines stay largely frozen.
According to Reuters, only 17 commodity vessels made it through the strait over the weekend, down sharply from 37 the week before, as tension between the United States and Iran remains in a stalemate.
Before the war began back in February, the Strait handled around 125 large commercial vessels a day and carried about a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas, so today's trickle shows just how much normal trade has been disrupted.
On Monday, the UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre said an unknown projectile struck a tanker as it entered the strait, injuring two crew members slightly before the ship continued on its own power, according to the Associated Press.
At the southern end of the Red Sea, traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait told a similar story.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Hussein Moabvedi, warned on state media that, quote, the war is not over, saying Iran would bring new weapons with new capabilities into the fight and change its targets if the United States escalates further.
The Associated Press reports that fighting has reignited between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Yemen's Saudi-backed government, and Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the UK has agreed to provide limited military support to Saudi Arabia, with the Royal Air Force refuelling Saudi aircraft in mid-air for the next few weeks.
Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi used the anniversary of his group's takeover of the capital to demand an end to what he called Saudi aggression and the decade-long blockade on Houthi-held areas.
The World Health Organization reported that 164 people were killed and 516 wounded in Yemen between September 13 and 18 alone, bringing the toll since early August to 674 deaths, while the International Organization for Migration said more than 129,000 people have now been displaced across seven provinces, with some families forced to flee more than once.
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