“It’s quite a thing to watch a country that has virtually no navy [Ukraine] defeat one of the biggest navies [Russia] in the world,” Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli said last month in Paris during the Eurosatory conference.
US Navy warships in the Red Sea have been fending off numerous aerial drones since arriving on station last year.
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
Estonia-based Milrem Robotics led the $39 million project involving twelve other entities from seven countries.
Think the Pentagon is ponderous? A new study from CNA shows how Soviet-style bureaucracy and an industrial base dependent on imports – from Iran, China, and the West – have hampered Russian drone warfare in Ukraine.
Moscow may need to build a new shipyard to meet its aspirations, including Russia's own "Pacific pivot," and sanctions are only making things more difficult, analysts told Breaking Defense.
Russia has big ambitions for unmanned systems, said CNA scholar Sam Bendett, but it faces the same technical hurdles as the US — and shares the same concerns about human control.
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Manned armored vehicles will have a place even in a world of killer drones, experts agreed. But will they engage the enemy directly with big guns, or stay hidden and send out armed robots instead?
In April, the Yuma, Ariz. test range will host a competition of “low collateral damage” countermeasures designed to stop mini-drones without firing a shot. But can such a restrained approach stop the drone swarms Russia and others are developing?
The Electronic Warfare Tactical Vehicle is by no means the solution to the Army's EW shortfalls. But there are enough vehicles with enough capability to train electronic warfare troops, test out new tactics, and, if worst comes to worst, deploy "to both Korea and Europe."
"The major challenge for the US is China," CNA analyst Larry Lewis said. "They are approaching the use of AI just like the US approached going to the moon in the sixties."
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
“Is this possible? Probably,” one retired Army officer told me. “Are the Russians trying to figure out how to disable all the M1s so they can run over us with their robots? I hope that’s where they’re spending their time.”
What mission does the Army really need armed robots for -- expendable scouts, perhaps, or supplementary fire support? And does buying robots for that role really offer more tactical value than spending the same money on mundane upgrades to, say, self-propelled artillery?
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: NATO’s plans to defend the Baltic States are “inadequate” because they don’t take full account of Russia’s electronic warfare capabilities, a leading expert warns. The Russians are hardly invincible, Roger McDermott emphasized at CSIS on Monday. The story of them “shutting down” the Aegis radar on the USS Cook […]
AUSA: American military leaders talk how artificial intelligence will change the face of war, but the unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) actually in development are much more modest and less lethal. They’re mostly small, mostly unarmed, and fall short not only of Pentagon visions of future warfare, but of the tank-like machines the Russians are experimenting with today. […]