Navy to seek industry help on countering ‘cross-domain’ drone attacks

Navy to seek industry help on countering ‘cross-domain’ drone attacks
Navy to seek industry help on countering ‘cross-domain’ drone attacks

US Navy warships in the Red Sea have been fending off numerous aerial drones since arriving on station last year.

13-member European consortium completes unmanned ground system project

13-member European consortium completes unmanned ground system project
13-member European consortium completes unmanned ground system project

Estonia-based Milrem Robotics led the $39 million project involving twelve other entities from seven countries.

How not to innovate: Russia plays catch-up to Ukraine on drones

How not to innovate: Russia plays catch-up to Ukraine on drones
How not to innovate: Russia plays catch-up to Ukraine on drones

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.

Russia’s naval doctrine may call for challenging the West, but does it have the shipyards?

Russia’s naval doctrine may call for challenging the West, but does it have the shipyards?
Russia’s naval doctrine may call for challenging the West, but does it have the shipyards?

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.

Inside Russia’s Robot Army: Rhetoric vs. Reality

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

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.

Future Tank: Beyond The M1 Abrams

Future Tank: Beyond The M1 Abrams
Future Tank: Beyond The M1 Abrams

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?

DoD Drone Strategy Focuses On Low-End Threats – Not Nation-States

DoD Drone Strategy Focuses On Low-End Threats – Not Nation-States
DoD Drone Strategy Focuses On Low-End Threats – Not Nation-States

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?

Army Tests Jamming MRAPs: New Electronic Warfare Vehicle

Army Tests Jamming MRAPs: New Electronic Warfare Vehicle
Army Tests Jamming MRAPs: New Electronic Warfare Vehicle

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.”

Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Created Under DoD CIO

Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Created Under DoD CIO
Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Created Under DoD CIO

“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.”

Russian Robots Attack! West Point Comic’s (Plausible) Future War

“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.”

Skeptics Ask: Can Army Field Armed Robots By 2024?

Skeptics Ask: Can Army Field Armed Robots By 2024?
Skeptics Ask: Can Army Field Armed Robots By 2024?

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?

Electronic Warfare Trumps Cyber For Deterring Russia

Electronic Warfare Trumps Cyber For Deterring Russia
Electronic Warfare Trumps Cyber For Deterring Russia

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…

Armed Robots: US Lags Rhetoric, Russia

Armed Robots: US Lags Rhetoric, Russia
Armed Robots: US Lags Rhetoric, Russia

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.…

Russian Robots: Fear Jammers, Not Terminators

Russian Robots: Fear Jammers, Not Terminators
Russian Robots: Fear Jammers, Not Terminators

WASHINGTON: Don’t worry about Russia building a killer robot someday. Worry about the radio-jamming drones they have today. Despite a few grandiose claims and snazzy videos of robots shooting guns, Russia remains behind “the Chinese, Iranians, and the Turks” in developing armed unmanned systems, let alone the United States, CNA expert Samuel Bendett said this…