Is NATO - Russo tension increasing? Where to invest for this "dangerous opportunity"?

Investment Analysis Clubs Macro Economic Trends and Risks
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Over the last 3-4 months, my YT echo chamber has been delivering YTs that are increasingly strident warnings of coming Russia attack on the Baltic countries or Poland.
Or perhaps on some of the Carpathian 8.

The I in MIC is “Industrial”, industry, manufacturing.
Russia has reportedly shifted to a war economy.

The EU, Scandinavia , Baltics are reportedly ramping their war materiel production. The EU is also reportedly rejecting PLTR, in favor of a home grown solution.

The US MIC is reportedly failing (ammunition plant in Mesquite TX, F-35, missiles of various designs, etc).
A hotter conflict portends investor success?

So. Where to invest in US companies for a potential coming kinetic SMO?

:man_farmer:
ralph has some NVDA, PLTR, TSLA, ONDS.
I don’t have any traditional MIC.

AI info:
Big “prime” contractors (build major systems)
Lockheed Martin: F-35 and F-22 jets, missiles (HIMARS, Javelin, PAC-3), satellites

RTX (Raytheon): Patriot and Stinger missiles, radars, jet engines (Pratt & Whitney)

Boeing: F-15, F/A-18, helicopters (Apache, Chinook), tankers, satellites

General Dynamics: Abrams tanks, Virginia-class submarines, Gulfstream jets, artillery shells

Northrop Grumman: B-21 bomber, missiles, drones, space and cyber systems

HII (Huntington Ingalls): aircraft carriers and warships

Ammunition and weapons
Olin (Winchester): runs the Lake City Army ammo plant

Sig Sauer: the Army’s standard rifle and machine gun

Smith & Wesson, Colt, Remington: firearms

Nammo, Day & Zimmermann: shells, fuzes, and munitions

Vehicles and ships
Oshkosh: trucks (JLTV)

AM General: Humvees

BAE Systems Inc. (US arm of a UK firm): Bradley vehicles, ship repair

Textron: helicopters, armored vehicles

Software, hardware, and tech
Palantir: data analysis and battlefield software

Anduril: drones, sensors, autonomous systems

L3Harris: radios, sensors, space and electronic warfare

SAIC, Leidos, Booz Allen: IT, cyber, and intelligence support

SpaceX: military launches and Starshield satellites

Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle: cloud and AI contracts

Small parts and components
TransDigm, Honeywell, Curtiss-Wright, Moog, Teledyne: electronics, actuators, sensors, and aircraft parts

Lockheed, RTX, Boeing, General Dynamics, and Northrop are usually called the “Big Five.”
The Pentagon publishes its top contractors every year, and Defense News keeps a ranked “Top 100” list if you want the full picture..

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The 2026 BRICS Summit in India just wrapped up.

While Russia creates a diversion in Eastern Europe, the opportunity is ripe for China to increase its activity in the South China Sea area.

Ad mentioned in the first post, the EU/NATO countries n US are ramping their military capabilities.
Russia n China might want to go hot sooner, rather than later?

The traditional US MIC has mastered the art of milking the US taxpayer, via lobbying, regulatory capture, PAC, n such.

New companies such as, private owned Anduril and Saronic Technologies are building product then shopping it to the buyer at a fixed price.

Drones of various designs for air land n sea, are being heralded as the future of warfare.

Ukrainians reportedly have opened multiple home garage drone production businesses. A la Dell.
Will USians start 3D printing drones in the family garage?

FWIW
:man_farmer:
ralph

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Raytheon is doing pretty well recently. We need to replenish our missile stores since we’ve wasted most of them in Iran. But before that, the stock was very sluggish.

I might send some “play money” their way, but my retirement investments are much less speculative and (hopefully) more stable.

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