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• Top US General Advocates Targeting Iran’s IRGC Quds Force after Syria Drone Attack

  The top commander of US forces in the Middle East, US Army Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, told House lawmakers earlier this month that Iran and its proxies in the region were un...

• AI Arms Race, Drone Warfare and Cognitive Enhancement with Paul Scharre

  The Grey Dynamics podcast spoke with Paul Scharre, the vice president and director of studies at the Center for New American Security (CNAS). They discussed the use of drones ...

• Downing of MQ-9 Reaper is Latest US Drone Lost in Contested Zone

  Samuel Bendett, an expert at the Center for Naval Analyses, told C4ISRNET Russian media and other parties closely monitor “drone flights in the Black Sea and the proximity to ...

• U.S. MQ-9 'Reaper' Drones Compared to Russia's 'Orion' UAV

  Russia's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is not quite as formidable, however, according to Samuel Bendett, Russia analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses. Bendett told Newswe...

• Russia’s Downing of US Drone Sparks Fears of Escalation

  Administration officials said the MQ-9 was flying over the Black Sea on a routine flight before it was flanked by two Russian jets. The jets flew alongside the drone for 30 t...

• Russia Has Been Sending Some US-provided Weapons Captured in Ukraine to Iran, Sources Say

  A key weapon in Iran's inventory, the Toophan anti-tank guided missile, was reverse engineered from the American BGM-71 TOW missile in the 1970s. The Iranians also intercepted...

• China’s Neighbors Seek Expanded Partnerships With U.S. to Deter, Defend

  Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security think tank, said that because the existing sites have languished, it’s unlikely tha...

• Video Shows Ukraine Drone Drop Grenades on Unsuspecting Russians

  Samuel Bendett, Russia analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses, told Newsweek that both armies have used drones and UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) "to the full extent of th...

• CNAS Responds: One Year of War in Ukraine

  Next Friday, February 24, will mark one year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ahead of this solemn anniversary, CNAS experts analyze the many ways in which the war in Ukrai...

• China ‘Spy Balloon’ Wakes Up World to New Era of War at Edge of Space

  Jacob Stokes, senior fellow for the Indo-Pacific security programme at the Centre for a New American Security in Washington, also suggested that surveillance may turn out to b...

• DoD’s Clarified AI Policy Flashes ‘Green Light’ for Robotic Weapons: Experts

  “The old directive basically [said], in order to get approval for certain systems, you had to go through this review process, but it didn’t explain how to do the process,” sai...

• Killer Robot Swarms, an Update

  The Pentagon doesn’t openly discuss many of its most advanced technologies, but last year it called for proposals from the defense industry for a new program called AMASS, for...

• Drone Explodes Less Than 100 Miles From Moscow as Fear of Strikes Grows

  Samuel Bendett, Russia analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses and an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told Newsweek that he was still gather...

• Expect More Covert Israeli Operations against Iran after Nuclear Talks Stall, Say Experts

  The drone attack on the warehouse in Isfahan on Saturday night, confirmed by Iran, and air strikes on a convoy of lorries carrying arms into eastern Syria from Iraq on Sunday ...

• Mass-Market Military Drones Have Changed the Way Wars Are Fought

  By 2016, ISIS had modified DJI Phantom quadcopters to drop grenades. These weapons joined the arsenal of scratch-built ISIS drones, using parts that investigators with Conflic...

• New Cryptocurrency Unlikely to Help Russia and Iran Evade Sanctions

  It appears that Russia now sees cryptocurrency as a tool for engaging in bilateral trade with Iran, and a way to pay for those drones. By January 2023, the Russian news agency...

• Bargain Basement Bombers: Ukraine’s Homemade Drones Hit Russian Forces

  Samuel Bendett, an expert Russian drones and adviser to both the CNA and CNAS, told me that in addition to flying commercial quadcopters, both sides are building drones. “Russ...

• Who Innovates Wins? Drones and Adaptation in the Ukraine War

  Adjunct Senior Fellow Samuel Bendett joins John Amble on a Modern War Institute podcast. Samuel's extensive research experience has focused on Russian defense and technology a...

• All-Out Drone War in Ukraine Points to Future

  But the degree to which they are being used by both sides in Ukraine -- and the benefits they bring, as well as the threats they pose -- highlights the importance for militari...

• The Dawn of Drone Diplomacy

  A new era of arms trade is emerging, in which new exporters such as Iran and Turkey are displacing traditional weapons suppliers and are using drone exports to extend influenc...