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US forces need to invest in the building of a larger arsenal of cheap, precision-kill weapons or risk losing a future war, America’s top commander in the Indo-Pacific region said. Loading audio narration… Low-cost systems like cheap drones and inexpensive missile designs have had a fundamental impact on conflicts like…
The US Army has purchased thousands of cheap interceptors since the Iran war began, its top civilian official has disclosed, as the Pentagon looks to grow its arsenal of low-cost air defenses. Loading audio narration… Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told lawmakers that after the US began Operation Epic Fury, the…
As Ukraine’s war raises the profile of small drone threats, civilian and corporate organizations preparing for them are finding a key problem: There’s not much they can do to stop one. Loading audio narration… In the US and Europe, private citizens and businesses are rarely allowed to shoot down or…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kiki Leigh, a 28-year-old originally from Winnipeg, Canada, who is relocating from Los Angeles to Mussomeli, Italy, after buying a house there. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I’ve traveled to Italy several times, but…
Russia is using fiber-optic cables to control some of its larger, fixed-wing strike drones, making them effectively immune to the electronic warfare interference that dominates the battlefield, a top Ukrainian drone expert confirmed. Loading audio narration… Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, an advisor to Ukraine’s defense ministry, told Business Insider this week…
