“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 MehtaA major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
“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
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 Army will ship AeroVironment’s JUMP 20 to a brigade to meet an immediate operational need to replace RQ-7 Shadow. The service is holding a separate competitive rapid prototyping effort for increment two.
By Andrew Eversden
Autonomous drones are a “direct attempt to evade” EW countermeasures, according to a top cUAS general.
By Andrew Eversden
The US and its allies should prepare Ukraine, and better constrain Iran, write analysts from FDD.
By John Hardie, Ryan Brobst and Behnam Ben Taleblu
The Senate Armed Services Committee was right to fund the system, even if the Navy didn’t request it, writes Bryan Clark.
By Bryan Clark
After doing some analysis, the idea appears to be “less attractive than we thought it might be,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told Breaking Defense.
By Valerie Insinna
In an exclusive interview, Lebanese Navy Commander Senior Capt. Haissam Dannaoui talks UAVs, retiring old ships and help from friendly nations.
By Agnes Helou The American claim comes as President Joe Biden prepares for a Middle East trip, and comes as Iranian UAV fears have prompted unprecedented interest from Gulf nations in Israeli defense systems.
By Arie Egozi
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