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Marines pick three companies for loitering munitions program
The weapon would give squads and platoons air firepower at their fingertips.
By Todd South
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First MQ-4C Triton drone arrives at Naval Air Station Sigonella
The Navy's Triton drone reached initial operating capability last fall and is now being forward-deployed.
By Diana Stancy
Five brigades chosen to wargame with potential future drones
Five brigade combat teams have been identified to participate in future drone capability demonstrations this spring.
By Kyle Rempfer
Turkey’s first armed drone totes a light machine gun
Developed by Turkish defense contractor Asisguard and dubbed the Songar Armed Drone System, this 55-pound drone is designed to be portable and easily deployed by infantry units and small security elements during both day and night operations.
By Ian D'Costa
Mattis says Iran downing a US aircraft should be met with ‘retaliation’
Mattis said when he was the commander of CENTCOM an Iranian fighter made three attempts to shoot down a U.S. drone and missed each time. “Says something about their accuracy that they missed all three times.”
By Shawn Snow
Pentagon wants to streamline its counterdrone focus
The wild west of counter-UAS systems may be coming to an end in the Department of Defense.
By Aaron Mehta
AFRICOM demands return of US drone shot down by Russian air defenses over Libya
The remotely piloted aircraft may have been brought down by Russian mercenaries or troops with Khalifa Hifter’s Libyan National Army operating a Russian air defense system.
By Shawn Snow
Op-ed: Stop the rise of autonomous weapons
Our ever-growing appetite for intelligent, autonomous machines poses a host of ethical challenges.
By Christoffer Heckman, University of Colorado Boulder