As it currently stands, Replicator “is kind of aiming at the wrong problem,” Bryan Clark, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute said.
By Jaspreet GillEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
“The intent is to launch the [Mojave] aircraft from the aircraft carrier and if conditions are suitable, we’ll look at recovering it,” said Jaime Walters, vice president of international strategic development at GA-ASI.
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DroneHunter is a no-to-low collateral damage, counter-UAS system that shoots different types of nets at drone threats, and can bring them down intact in order to exploit them.
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Already in Ukraine, the low-to-no-collateral DroneHunter F700 counter-UAS system can now defeat faster and larger threats like the Russian Orlan-10 and Iranian Shahed-136.
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KARGO builds on Kaman’s Afghanistan experience with its KMAX cargo UAV while adding new Near Earth Autonomy software to adapt to changing battlefields.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The request comes weeks after Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced the Replicator initiative to counter China’s military mass.
By Jaspreet Gill
Amid larger competitors, Israeli firm SpearUAV is focused on drones to help “maneuvering forces.”
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ROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI will present integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
The HAASTA is design to hunt low velocity flying Shahed-type drones and destroying the enemy target with an underbelly mounted 5.45mm machine gun.
By Bartosz Głowacki Though being “cagey” about details, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kath Hicks said the new Replicator program is meant to get “multiple thousands” of autonomous systems in the hands of servicemembers with two years.
By Lee Ferran and Jaspreet Gill
The “landmark sanctions will further diminish Russia’s arsenal and close the net on supply chains propping up Putin’s now struggling defence industry,” said UK foreign secretary James Cleverly.
By Tim Martin
Drone-guided artillery strikes have made Ukraine “the graveyard of command posts,” two Army generals have warned. But, Lt. Gen. Milford Beagle and Brig. Gen. Jason Slider told Breaking Defense, better tactics and affordable tech can save lives.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
With Ukraine losing up to 10,000 drones a month, mostly to Russian electronic warfare, it’s tempting to invest in anti-EW protection – but, experts agreed, it’s probably more cost-effective to accept high losses and just buy more bare-bones drones.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“The loss rate for Ukrainian UAVs at the moment is about 10,000 UAVs a month,” Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said. “That’s the level of equipment that both sides are going through.”
By Colin Clark
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.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
