“These solutions provide maneuvering forces with robust force protection and flexibility against a wide range of airborne threats, including UAVs,” Rafael said in a statement.
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The Defense Innovation Unit will now conduct an annual competition for sUAS and quadcopters to either stay on the Blue List or be added to it, Blue UAS Project Lead Trent Emeneker told Breaking Defense.
By Barry Rosenberg
“Some of the implications are that we now have batteries or, hopefully we’ll have batteries, that are not reliant on rare earth minerals. We don’t have to rely on those coming from adversarial nations such as China,” Jen Sovada, president of SandboxAQ’s Global Public Sector division, told Breaking Defense.
By Carley Welch
“Iran’s goal was to restore its credibility and inflict retribution on Israel while reducing the risk of further escalation,” said Hasan Alhasan, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
By Riad Kahwaji
Last fall, both Russia and Ukraine boasted of fielding drones that tracked targets using AI algorithms. Now new expert analysis suggests that neither side got it to work well enough for war — but the US and China might.
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DARPA envisions a plane launching a drone, which in turn can launch its own weapons.
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UAVs capable of operating independently from human control will still, however, require the ability to talk to each other within a swarm while being jammed.
By Barry Rosenberg
Officials from both the United Kingdom and Australia took part in this year’s experiment for the first time, bringing their own technologies alongside the US Army to test across the past few months.
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Replicator, intended to deliver thousands of low-cost attritable autonomous systems across multiple domains over the next 18 to 24 months, needs industrial investment, writes Andrew Metrick of CNAS.
By Andrew Metrick