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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Don’t Panic, But Russia Is Training Its Robot Tanks To Understand Human SpeechRussian scientists are teaching a robotic tank to understand spoken orders from a human commander. The Kremlin’s Advanced Research Foundation—Russia’s answer to the U.S. Defe...
By Samuel Bendett
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
New Russian Robot Will Shoot Naval Mines With A GunThe last thing a naval mine expects is to be shot by an underwater robot holding a pistol. Naval mines are expectant machines, terrible potential floating below the surface. W...
By Samuel Bendett
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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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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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
CNAS Launches “America Competes 2020”The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today launched “America Competes 2020,” a Center-wide initiative to renew American competitiveness at home and abroad. Amid incre...
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Technology & National Security
Executive Order Highlights Electromagnetic Pulse ThreatIn March, President Donald Trump signed an “Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses,” which many observers see as an important step in co...
By Paul Scharre
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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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Technology & National Security
U.S. alliances need to reflect needs of modern warfare, experts sayWASHINGTON — Since the beginning of U.S. invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. has had the ability to project power in a relatively unchecked fashion. But some military ...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Military Not Ready for the Next Larger War, Experts SayWhile the U.S. military is ready for another Iraq War or Syria-like intervention, it is unprepared to fight a war against bigger challengers such as China or Russia, national ...
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
Autonomous weapons are a game-changerAI-empowered robots pose entirely new dangers, possibly of an existential kind...
By Paul Scharre
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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
Industry Developing New Social Media Simulation Tools for Military AnalystsAs Black Hawk helicopters transported Navy SEALs to Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011, an IT consultant working late into the evening heard the spinn...
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