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U.S. Poised to Accept New F-35s Without Radars, Sources Say
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Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, told Breaking Defense the more powerful APG-85 is planned to offer several upgrade...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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In The News
Defense / Middle East Security
The Iran War Could Sap American Military Power for YearsThe current pace of operations is likely to produce occasional “carrier gaps”—when America cannot deploy a carrier in some parts of the world—for two or three years, says Stac...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump Sons Are Behind a $750 Million Push Into Drone Warfare
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A fund that counts President Donald Trump’s eldest sons as partners invested in a pair of small companies last year: a construction firm that builds Orange Theory Fitness loca...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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In The News
Defense / Middle East Security
Iran War Tactics Evolve from past Conflict’s LessonsAfter more than a week of strikes, the US and Israel appear to be dismantling Iran’s military machine with startling speed. They’ve hit thousands of targets across the country...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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In The News
Defense / Middle East Security
Middle East War Could Be Decided by Who Runs Out of Missiles or Interceptors First, Analysts SayThe outcome and duration of the war in the Middle East may be decided by a grim calculus based on the size of Iran’s drone and missile stocks v vital air defence munitions hel...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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In The News
Defense / Middle East Security
How Tanking, Airlift Could Be Strained by Iran OpsAs US armed forces grind through combat in Iran, some officials have raised concerns about America’s munitions stockpile. But experts warn that a perhaps less obvious constrai...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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In The News
Defense / Technology & National Security
The Pentagon’s Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing FounderWithin minutes of arriving at a security conference with U.S. defense and intelligence officials in December, Palmer Luckey was stopped by a military officer who wanted to tal...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Middle East Security
Defensive Munition Shortages to Shape Attack on IranLimited supplies of critical defensive munitions to protect US forces and allies from Tehran’s missiles are likely to shape the military offensive against Iran, according to o...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Does the U.S. Have Enough Aircraft Carriers for All Trump’s Wars?
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As his latest threats to Iran suggest, President Donald Trump has become increasingly comfortable deploying military force around the world. But even with a military as large ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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As Dems Push for Briefing on El Paso Incident, Experts Warn It Could Be the ‘Tip of the Iceberg’
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“I think coordination has been lacking, and you're seeing a lot more sort of cowboy behavior, which could be problematic,” Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow and director of th...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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The U.S. Is Racing to Build a Drone Shield and This 90-Degree Missile Could Power Trump’s “Golden Dome”
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A missile fires straight up, pivots, and kills a drone midair, JAGM’s latest test hints at a new weapon in America’s race to counter aerial threats....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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El Paso Airspace Shutdown Is ‘Case Study’ in Complexity of Counter-Drone Ops: Experts
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The use of a military counter-drone laser on the southwest border this week—which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to abruptly close the airspace over El Paso, Tex...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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El Paso Incident Highlights Gaps in America’s Drone Defense Industry
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The debacle at the El Paso airport this week is a sign that America’s counter-drone technology — and the ability to deploy it — is still at an early stage, despite billions of...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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El Paso: Why Anti-Drone Laser May Have Backfired and Led to Airport Closure
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U.S. forces deployed an anti-drone laser weapon close to El Paso airport in Texas earlier this week, according to new reports, sparking an airspace closure lasting several hou...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Weapons Used to Fight Drones Don’t Mix Well with Civilian Airspace
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The military has made fast progress in recent years building an arsenal of guns, missiles, lasers, jammers and even high-powered microwaves that can shoot down drones. But it ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital
The U.S. Army’s Quiet Rotation in the PhilippinesThe U.S. Army’s rotation in the Philippines is easy to overlook. Experts say that might be the point....
By Katherine L. Kuzminski & Stacie Pettyjohn
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Experts Have Questions About the New National Defense Strategy—on China, Force Design, and More
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The soft-pedal rollout of the National Defense Strategy—a Friday-night email to press as the Washington, D.C., area braced for a crippling snowstorm—has experts wondering whet...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Becca Wasser
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New U.S. Defense Strategy ‘Barely Mentions Technology’
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The new National Defense Strategy broadly prioritizes the Trump administration’s plans for protecting U.S. territories and assets and juicing the military’s industrial base, b...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Inside China’s AI Army: Drones Learn to Hunt and Kill like Nature’s Predators
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China is teaching its drones to fight like animals. Engineers at Beihang University, a military-linked school, created a system in which defensive drones mimic hawks by target...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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China Trains AI-Controlled Weapons with Learning from Hawks, Coyotes
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Engineers studying drone combat at one of China’s top military-linked universities needed a way to simulate clashes between drone swarms in real time. They turned to nature fo...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
