Israeli defense sources told Breaking Defense that the cooperation between Iran and Russia in Ukraine may have changed the calculus on Israel’s sideline stance.
By Arie EgoziAI can make logistics data as valuable as intelligence or operational data for mission success
Valuable intelligence insights can be gleaned from logistics or flight-test data when artificial intelligence or machine learning is applied.
New autonomy and network technology could enable a new form of high-intensity, low-altitude tactics.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“We’ll be demonstrating this capability overseas,” David Alexander told Breaking Defense, adding that the demos could take place in Europe as early as “next month.”
By Valerie Insinna
The program is the latest out of the military focused on “getting the man out of the minefield.”
By Justin Katz
The Army is looking for industry ideas, but Ukraine has shown it’ll take more than just one tactic.
By Lee Ferran
The Army is replacing the Shadow in its infantry brigades, but Textron is upgrading as the company expects other Army groups, like aviation and special ops, to use it for more than a decade longer.
By Andrew Eversden
To avoid going up directly up against local behemoths like the EDGE Group, partnerships offer a path to Gulf customers.
By Agnes Helou
ROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI presented integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
“We believe that GA is going to pioneer a completely new way to propel airborne air breathing [vehicles],” said Mike Atwood, the firm’s senior director of advanced programs.
By Aaron Mehta
“If someone takes it, good luck. Keep it, it’s worthless. We’ve got hundreds of them,” said Richard Jenkins, chief executive officer of Saildrone.
By Justin Katz
“There are going to be a number of challenges to overcome the closer and closer we get that we should not overlook,” Dan Rice, vice president of 5G.MIL programs at Lockheed Martin, said of future tests.
By Jaspreet Gill
“The underlying behaviors, the autonomy, the way in which the rest of the ecosystem works together — that is exactly what we want to uncover in these series of experiments, to understand how you would actually field this type of capability,” said a Lockheed executive.
By Valerie Insinna
Advanced capabilities, like lasers and high-power microwave, will have to work in tandem with bullets or jamming to defeat drones threats as they evolve.
By Andrew Eversden
The US Air Force hopes to develop and field autonomous combat drones that would augment piloted fighters “in the mid to late 2020s,” Andrew Hunter, the Air Force’s top acquisition official, said in August.
By Valerie Insinna
Ukraine appears to have struck Russia in Crimea twice this month. But how they actually pulled it off is a mystery worth unraveling, writes Mark Cancian of CSIS.
By Mark Cancian