
This Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) aims to replicate the investment performance of a specific market index. This benchmark index is made up solely of shares from U.S.-based companies that operate within the aviation and defense industries.
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Defense primes are ripping higher Thursday morning even as the broader market sags.

The era of frictionless software scaling has violently collided with physical reality. Capital is flowing out of technology names and into the hard assets, baseload power generation, and silicon foundries required to sustain the artificial intelligence supercycle.

A new defense-focused exchange-traded fund began trading this month. The VistaShares Defense Supercycle ETF (NYSEARCA:AMMO) launched under a prospectus dated July 12, 2026, issued by VistaShares and organized inside Tidal Trust III.

Looking for broad exposure to the Industrials - Aerospace & Defense segment of the equity market? You should consider the iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF (ITA), a passively managed exchange traded fund launched on May 1, 2006.

The order comes as the administration has ramped up efforts to break China's stranglehold on the mining and processing of rare earths needed for defense and autos.