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How Bigger Kamikaze Drones Expected From U.S. Could Boost Ukraine's FightExperts believe that the attributes of the large drones could help Ukraine in an expected upcoming effort to regain territory lost to Russia this year in the Kherson region an...
By Samuel Bendett
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Chinese drone maker DJI and the US CongressThe Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia...
By Alexandra Seymour
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After Decades of Catch-up Russia Just Began Building Its Own Killer DronesTwo decades after a CIA-operated MQ-1 Predator drone performed the first modern drone strike, Russia is joining the killer drone club as it begins series production in 2021 of...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russian fighter pilots could soon fly alongside bomb-filled combat dronesIf Russia decides to send planes into combat by the end of this decade, human pilots in those aircraft will still pick targets, but it will be drone escorts that actually drop...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Enters Military Drone Export Market With Sale To MyanmarRussian news media are reporting a deal to supply Orlan-10E drones to Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The transaction with a military widely condemned for its actions agains...
By Samuel Bendett
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The ‘Magic Bullet’ Drones Behind Azerbaijan’s Victory Over ArmeniaAzerbaijan’s drone-led assault seems to have scored a decisive victory over Armenian forces in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, with a peace deal coming into effect a...
By Samuel Bendett
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Azerbaijan’s Growing Drone Arsenal May Have Led It To Believe It Has Edge Over ArmeniaAzerbaijan’s growing inventory of armed drones may have convinced Baku that it has a substantial enough military and technological edge over Armenia that it could prevail in t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Are Chinese Drones a National Security Threat or Required for the National Interest?Before DJI, a Chinese drone company, was named a national security threat, it was the darling of the U.S. government, used by federal agencies, the military and more than 900 ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Russia’s Weird Fixar Drone Offers Military Capabilities At Commercial RatesRussia’s Fixar drone is designed for the sweet spot between quadcopters and fixed-wing aircraft. With rotors set at an angle and wings for efficiency, it can take off and land...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Uses ‘Swarm Of Drones’ In Military Exercise For The First TimeRussian state news agency TASS reports that a swarm of drones was used for the first time in a military exercise.The drone operation was part of the giant Kavkaz-2020 (Caucasu...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia’s Got Dogfighting Drones, Too—Just How Smart Are They?Russian industry is developing a new, low-cost drone that could function as an autonomous wingman for human pilots. But it’s unclear how much the developers at drone-maker K...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia is talking about giving its stealthy 'Hunter' drone an air-to-air combat mission as a long-range interceptorRussia is considering giving the stealthy Okhotnik (Hunter) combat drone an air-to-air combat mission as a long-range interceptor, Russian state media reported this week. The...
By Samuel Bendett
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CyberBoat-330 Is A Surprising Russia-Iran Collaboration On A Robot For Shallow SeasGreat swaths of the Caspian Sea are shallow waters, too small for vessels with a deep draft to navigate or patrol. Bordered by Russia on the north and Iran on the south, the c...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Critical shortage: Overburdened drone pilots driven out of Air Force, GAO warnsThe pilots and sensor operators who fly America’s military drones have taken on a lion’s share of the Air Force aerial combat missions for more than 20 years. Since the attac...
By Paul Scharre
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Inside the Wild Finale of DARPA’s Simulated Drone DogfightsU.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael Tremel was in the cockpit of his Super Hornet fighter soaring 20,000 feet over war-torn Syria on June 18, 2017, when he detected a warplane heading...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russian Robot Helicopter Could Do More Than Search And RescueFor people who get lost at sea off Russian coasts, rescue may come in the form of a robot helicopter. Set for display at the upcoming Army 2020 Military Technology Exposition...
By Samuel Bendett
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Trump Eases Restrictions On Armed Drone Sales AbroadThe Trump administration is relaxing arms export restrictions, a move long sought by drone makers but one that critics say will provide little competitive edge to U.S. compani...
By Michael Horowitz
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Trump admin officially makes it easier to export military dronesThe U.S. State Department has officially loosened restrictions on exporting military-grade unmanned aerial vehicles to foreign nations, a move long sought by the defense indus...
By Michael Horowitz
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Russia Prepares Robot Tank For Fighting DronesWhat if the answer to swarms of drones is just a really big gun? Russia’s Derivatsiya-PVO is formally a kind of self-propelled artillery tasked with an anti-air mission. In ef...
By Samuel Bendett
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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
