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Defense / Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
How Much Does It Cost To Insure A Russian-Made Stealth Drone?The Russian defense ministry has insured its new stealth drone and its control station for 1.4 billion rubles. That’s $20 million. And it’s probably worth every ruble. The S-...
By Samuel Bendett
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
The Turks Shot Down A Russian Bomber In 2015. Now Russia’s Buying New Planes That Can Defend ThemselvesThe Russian air force is buying new Su-34 fighter-bombers. The two-seat, twin-engine warplanes will replace aging Su-24 bombers—one of which the Turkish air force shot down ne...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Drone Maker Creates Ventilators For The War On CoronavirusAcross the world, people breathlessly await to see what extraordinary measures it will take to survive the pandemic. Turkey’s Baykar, makers of the Bayraktar-TB drone, has tur...
By Samuel Bendett
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Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
Peace Storm: Turkey tries to turn the tables in LibyaAs conflict flares up once again in Libya, Turkey is again trying to shape the outcome through its military intervention. However, it is unclear whether either side in the Lib...
By Samuel Bendett
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Turkey Is The Middle East's Newest Drone Super PowerKey point: Damascus’s forces lack the technology reliably to defeat attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles. Turkey might never develop its own stealth fighter, but the country ha...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Guess Who’s a Drone Power Now. TurkeyTurkey might never develop its own stealth fighter, but the country has become a major user, and seller, of an entirely different class of warplane. Armed drones. Tunisia in m...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
How swarming drones will change warfareIn February, the defence secretary said "swarm squadrons" will be deployed by the British armed forces in the coming years. The US has also been testing interconnected, co-ope...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Getting to grips with military roboticsPETER SINGER, AN expert on future warfare at the New America think-tank, is in no doubt. “What we have is a series of technologies that change the game. They’re not science fi...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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Technology & National Security
Russia says it killed rebels behind swarm drone attack in Syria, but experts see more such strikes aheadRussia's defense ministry said Friday it tracked down and killed the group of militants responsible for a recent coordinated drone attack against one of its bases in Syria. Ex...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
How the Pentagon is preparing for the coming drone warsMore than a decade after the improvised explosive device became the scourge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is battling another relatively rudimentary device...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Chinese drones may soon swarm the market — and that could be very bad for the USChina showed off some of its latest drone models and projects at this year's Dubai Airshow and it looks like many spectators were interested. China has seen a dramatic increas...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
The US Shot Down a Mysterious Enemy Drone Over SyriaA US Air Force F-15 jet fighter has shot down a large, armed drone that attacked pro-US forces near At Tanf, a strategic town in southeastern Syria near the border with Iraq. ...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
UAS are everywhere, and it takes all types of technology to defeat themThe drone buzzed over U.S. ground troops in southern Syria. It was big, about the size of a Predator, and it was armed. Without warning, it fired. The munition “hit dirt,” a P...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Disposable Drones Could Deliver Supplies Under Enemy FireGliders offer many advantages on the battlefield, not the least of which are low cost and silent operation—two things the military loves. That explains their prevalence during...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
Global Perspectives on Israel and RussiaThis week on the Proliterated Drones website, drone experts explain how Israel and Russia use drones and see drones being used in the future. ...
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Defense / Technology & National Security
CNAS Launches Briefing and Infographics on Autonomous WeaponsIn advance of next week’s global meetings on autonomous weapons, CNAS is releasing a briefing report and infographic on autonomous weapons and human control....
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Why drone swarms will buzz to the forefront in the new Pentagon budgetIn The Washington Post, Senior Fellow Paul Scharre weighs in on the importance of drone swarms in the U.S. military....
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Podcast: How Drones Are Reshaping the WorldOn an America Abroad podcast, Senior fellows Ben FitzGerald and Paul Scharre look at how drones are revolutionizing the skies, and how this technology has moved from science f...
By Ben FitzGerald & Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Activists Calling for a Ban on 'Killer Robots' Raise Alarm Over an Uncertain ThreatSenior Fellow and Director of the 20YY Warfare Initiative Paul Scharre examines potential challenges with autonomous weapons in VICE News....
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Pakistan Joins Exclusive Drone Club, With Nod to ChinaAssociate Fellow Kelley Sayler and Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Technology and National Security Research Program Michael Horowitz discuss the uses of drones in Bloomberg....
By Kelley Sayler
