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• Saudis Begin Making Ballistic Missiles With Chinese Help

  Saudi Arabia has imported sensitive missile technology from the Chinese military and is manufacturing its own ballistic missiles, according to Saudi advisers and officials fam...

• Forget U.S. Military Aid, Putin Eyes Threat from Turkish Drones in Ukraine

  While Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned the ongoing flow of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine as the Eastern European nation faces off with pro-Moscow separatis...

• Kamikaze Drones: A New Weapon Brings Power and Peril to the U.S. Military

  Americans have become accustomed to images of Hellfire missiles raining down from Predator and Reaper drones to hit terrorist targets in Pakistan or Yemen. But that was yester...

• Air Force Opens Door for Select Few From the Enlisted Ranks to Become Officers

  The airmen involved in the Air Force’s enlisted drone pilot program have a great shot at becoming officers and remaining pilots if they want to, the top officer and enlisted a...

• U.S. vs. China: The Design, Tech Behind Military Drones

  China is expanding its military arsenal with new drones, including stealth versions and those that can swarm and drop bombs. Elsa Kania joins the WSJ in comparing the tech and...

• Russian Mail Drones Could Simplify Siberian Postal Delivery

  On its platform, the helicopter-style SH-350 drone receives a blue package in a pelican-case-style box. Tied tight into place, it rises with the drone over a field of snow. Th...

• AI battleships and killer drones: ‘Terminator future’ of war feared by conflict experts

  Major advancements in AI weapons and defence technology have sparked fears mankind is heading towards a “Terminator future” of war. And as this ultra-tech advance, there are i...

• Russia wants to launch little drones off of other drones off of ships

  Russia wants to replace the helicopter scouts on its existing ships with longer-range drones. Announced earlier this week by Russia’s Advanced Research Foundation (an analog t...

• Afghanistan: US hit IS-K targets in drone attack

  Stacie Pettyjohn talks with BBC Newshour about the strike on ISIS-K and counterterrorism measures. Listen to the full conversation from BBC....

• America bombs Islamic State. Once it quits Afghanistan, can it still?

  “TO THOSE WHO carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this,” said President Joe Biden, speaking after a suicide-bombing at Kabul airport kille...

• Heavy-lifting Russian drones could resupply soldiers on future battlefields

  Rostec, the massive Russian defense corporation, announced at the annual MAKS-2021 arms show in late July that it wants to make a better fleet of cargo drones, including one c...

• After Decades of Catch-up Russia Just Began Building Its Own Killer Drones

  Two 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...

• Biden has just a few weeks left to make key decisions that will shape the future of Afghanistan

  With the Taliban advancing across rural parts of Afghanistan, and criticism mounting over what some view as an overly hasty departure, the Biden administration is staring down...

• The U.S. says humans will always be in control of AI weapons. But the age of autonomous war is already here.

  Picture a desert battlefield, scarred by years of warfare. A retreating army scrambles to escape as its enemy advances. Dozens of small drones, indistinguishable from the quad...

• Licensed to Kill: How Russia Uses Israeli Drones to Bomb Civilians in Syria

  When Israeli-licensed military drones first took off from Syrian air force bases to stalk opponents of Bashar Assad’s regime, shortly after Russia’s 2015 intervention, they we...

• Inside Russia’s Robot Army: Rhetoric vs. Reality

  Russia has created a new robotic combat unit of Uran-9 unmanned ground vehicles, which have been battle-tested in Syria, though with mixed results. It’s also developing an exp...

• Russia Plans ‘Flying Minefield’ To Counter Drone Attacks

  The Russian military has released new details of its use in Syria of small kamikaze drones, known as loitering munitions, made by a Kalashnikov subsidiary. The drone maker is ...

• Future Tank: Beyond The M1 Abrams

  What comes after the M1 Abrams, the Army’s massive Reagan-era main battle tank? “Everything is on the table at this point,” the service’s armor modernization director, Maj. Ge...

• Russian fighter pilots could soon fly alongside bomb-filled combat drones

  If 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...

• Dr. Stacie Pettyjohn

  Stacie Pettyjohn is a senior fellow and director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). She is a recognized expert in U.S. defense strategy, ...