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Report: U.S. Counter-Drone Defenses ‘Insufficient’ as China Scales Up Unmanned Capabilities
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A new thinktank report has concluded that though the Pentagon has significantly invested in counter-drone capabilities over the past decade, the level of speed and scale at wh...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Molly Campbell
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How Did the World’s Most Sophisticated Military Fall So Far Behind With Drone Warfare?
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When the Pentagon announced a “joint interagency task force” in July to bring the U.S. military up to speed on drone warfare, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. James Mingus...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Pentagon Faces 'Wake-Up Call' To Meet Drone Innovation Highlighted In Ukraine WarWhen a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone loitered over Baghdad airport in the early hours of January 3, 2020 and fired a Hellfire missile that killed the powerful Iranian Major General Q...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Pentagon Looks to Unleash ‘Military Drone Dominance’
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While no one knows when or where the next major war will break out, what is becoming clear is that next time the United States engages directly in a conflict, U.S. combat unit...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Taiwan Looks to New Sea-Drone Tech to Repel ChinaTaiwan is accelerating efforts to develop a high-tech fleet of naval drones that military planners see as a potential game-changer in the island’s ability to fend off a possib...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
How Trump’s Strike on Iran Might Affect China’s Calculus on TaiwanPresident Trump’s decision to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, after earlier denouncing U.S. embroilment in foreign wars, introduces another complication for China’s leaders ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Middle East Security
Trump Wants Quick Win in Iran, but Goal Remains ElusiveBut with Trump musing about everything from "unconditional surrender" to regime change, it remains to be seen if the US intervention will remain limited -- or if Iran will let...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Middle East Security
Decoy Flights and Seven B-2 Stealth Bombers – How U.S. Says It Hit Iran’s Nuclear SitesAn 18-hour flight each way, multiple mid-air refuelings, and a series of decoys - this is how the mission to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities played out, according to four-star ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Ukraine’s Surprise Drone Strike Underscores Vulnerability of U.S. Defenses
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Ukraine’s surprise Sunday strike that used relatively inexpensive drones to knock out a significant portion of Russia’s long-range bomber capability was arguably the single la...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
How Ukraine's 'Spiderweb' Drone Attacks May Change Modern WarfareOn June 1, videos of bomb-laden quadcopters launching from trucks as fires blazed nearby spread through social media after Ukraine’s Security Services launched daylight strike...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
What a Historic Absence of Its Top Officer Means for the NavyWalking in the Pentagon’s river entrance, a visitor is greeted by a series of photographs on the walls featuring the top uniformed member of the military services. But for the...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Can Donald Trump Build the ‘Golden Dome’ over the U.S.?
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Warheads raining down from beyond the Earth's atmosphere. Faster-than-sound cruise missiles striking US infrastructure. Sky-high nuclear blasts....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump Wants a Twin-Engined F-35. Experts Say It’s ‘Not Feasible.’
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In keeping with his penchant for shocking the defense industry, President Donald Trump today seemingly revealed plans to develop a twin-engine version of the F-35 Joint Strike...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Drones Are Transforming South Asian WarfareThe recent military confrontation between India and Pakistan, which involved the worst fighting between the regional rivals in decades, marked the first time the two nuclear p...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Pentagon Rushing to Find ‘Low-Collateral’ Tech to Counter Hostile Drones
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The Pentagon is seeking ways to down hostile drones to defend military bases without endangering nearby civilians or infrastructure—and it wants solutions soon....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Converting Luxury Jet Gifted to Trump into Air Force One Could Cost Hundreds of Millions
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Converting a luxury jet gifted by Qatar to President Donald Trump into a replacement for Air Force One could potentially cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and it could tak...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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RAF Unveils Its Own Plan for New Drones to Fly Alongside Fighters
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The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force has unveiled a new electronic warfare drone designed to fly with fighter jets into contested airspace, including alongside its fleet of F-...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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How DOD Could Recoup Its Investment in Ukraine’s Long-Range Drones
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For three years now, the U.S. has dug into its weapons arsenal and shared billions of dollars to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia; now, as peace talks suggest the war...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump Says Boeing Will Develop the F-47, His Namesake Fighter Jet
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President Donald Trump on Friday touted plans to keep the Pentagon a step ahead of China, unveiling a blueprint for America’s next-generation fighter jet that aims to deliver ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Why Boeing’s F-47 NGAD Next-Gen Fighter Win Was Existential for the Company
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It’s no secret that Boeing is in a bind. Regulators are scrutinizing the planemaker’s commercial business, whose woes have also attracted the attention of federal prosecutors....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
