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• The Arctic Eats Helicopters, So Russia Is Sending Drones Instead

  Russian defense firm Rostec is partnering with a small Latvian startup to make tiltrotor drones for dangerous Arctic operations. Think of it as a tiny, robotic, cold-weather ...

• How Much Does It Cost To Insure A Russian-Made Stealth Drone?

  The Russian defense ministry has insured its new stealth drone and its control station for 1.4 billion rubles. That’s $20 million. And it’s probably worth every ruble. The S-...

• Drone Maker Creates Ventilators For The War On Coronavirus

  Across the world, people breathlessly await to see what extraordinary measures it will take to survive the pandemic. Turkey’s Baykar, makers of the Bayraktar-TB drone, has tur...

• Israel’s shadow campaign offers lessons for U.S. in standoff with Iran, report says

  Israel’s unacknowledged military campaign against Iranian targets in Syria could provide a model for the United States as it struggles to contain Tehran’s network of armed pro...

• Turkey Is The Middle East's Newest Drone Super Power

  Key point: Damascus’s forces lack the technology reliably to defeat attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles. Turkey might never develop its own stealth fighter, but the country ha...

• As Trump faces heat on coronavirus response, Republicans try to elevate China’s role in domestic political debate

  For months, national Republicans hoping to wrest back control of the House this fall have targeted first-term Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.), hitting him on his vote to impeach Pre...

• Bringing Back the Draft: 5 Possibilities for the Future of Military Conscription

  Late in the evening on Jan. 2, as Americans contemplated a return to work after the New Year holiday, shocking news began to ricochet across the internet: The United States ha...

• Guess Who’s a Drone Power Now. Turkey

  Turkey might never develop its own stealth fighter, but the country has become a major user, and seller, of an entirely different class of warplane. Armed drones. Tunisia in m...

• Coronavirus Can’t Quarantine The Proxy War Between U.S. and Iran

  A pandemic is spreading around the world, challenging global health systems and national preparedness. About the only thing the novel coronavirus is not disrupting is conflict...

• U.S. military scrambles to confront a new reality across the Middle East

  In the weeks since an American drone strike killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, U.S. military leaders have been sprinting to confront a dangerous new reality in the Midd...

• War on Autopilot? It Will Be Harder Than the Pentagon Thinks

  Everything is new about Northrop Grumman’s attempt to help the military link everything it can on the battlefield. One day, as planners imagine it, commanders will be able to ...

• Soleimani's enigmatic successor vows revenge on US

  The Trump administration has trained its eye on the new leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds force, but may have a hard time targeting a commander expert in...

• Iran avoids full-blown war with US but is caught in new crisis

  The Iranian leadership, rattled by the death of a top general in an US drone attack, hit at US forces in Iraq with missile strikes designed to save face at home but not sparki...

• U.S. Unsuccessfully Tried Killing a Second Iranian Military Official

  The American military unsuccessfully tried to kill a senior Iranian military official in Yemen on the same day a drone strike killed Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s most po...

• Its Missiles Did Little Damage, but Iran Has More Potent Weapons

  American military and intelligence officials were stunned at the precision, scale and sheer boldness of what they later concluded was an Iranian attack. Four months ago, a sw...

• Iran-US conflict may stretch definitions of ‘war’

  Refined Kitten – also known as APT33, Elfin, and Magnallium – is a shadowy hacker group that cybersecurity firms believe works in the interests of Iran. When tensions between ...

• Europe Tries to Balance Iran and the U.S. After Strike

  Escalating steps by Tehran and Washington are raising the pressure on European leaders to pick sides in a conflict they have been seeking to defuse for months. On Sunday, Ira...

• Conflict With Iran Threatens Fight Against ISIS

  For the militants of the Islamic State, the American drone strike that killed the Iranian commander Qassim Suleimani was a two-for-one victory. First, the killing of General ...

• Killing of Top Iranian General May Raise Risk for Mideast Shipping

  Forces with U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) have killed Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, a leading Iranian political figure and the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Gu...

• Are drone swarms the future of aerial warfare?

  As evening fell on Russia’s Khmeimim airbase in western Syria, the first drones appeared. Then more, until 13 were flashing on radars, speeding towards the airbase and a nearb...