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Russia’s naval doctrine may call for challenging the West, but does it have the shipyards?
Much like the United States, China and other countries though, traditional warships are only one part to the future fleet Russia wants to build. Another element that the count...
By Samuel Bendett
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How HIMARS and Sanctions are Choking Russia’s Weapons Trade
Moscow will go to great lengths to protect its military exports, even while under pressure to replace equipment destroyed in Ukraine. "We're in a state right now where it's mo...
By Samuel Bendett
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Chinese drone maker DJI and the US Congress
The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia...
By Alexandra Seymour
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Russia is Training Drone Hobbyists to Fight in Ukraine
It’s not clear how “coordinated work in combat crews” differs from combat. And that blurs the line between civilians and troops and creates a new type of combatant, said Sam B...
By Samuel Bendett
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How electronic warfare is reshaping the war between Russia and Ukraine
Electronic warfare systems have been used by both Russia and Ukraine in recent months to locate, disrupt and jam electronic and GPS signals from weapons and drones. The system...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Needs More Commercial Drone Pilots For Its War in Ukraine
“In this sense, the main goal of the ‘Dronnitsa’ meet is to initiate the formation of such an instructor corps, to establish, in fact, a new specialty—an instructor in the com...
By Samuel Bendett
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CHIPS Act leaves chipmakers facing choice between U.S. and China
Chipmakers are cheering Washington's long-awaited passage of a bill to provide funding for the U.S. semiconductor industry, but accepting those subsidies could tie their hands...
By Martijn Rasser
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New CNAS Report: "Regenerate: Biotechnology and U.S. Industrial Policy"
Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, "Regenerate: Biotechnology and U.S. Industrial Policy," from author Ryan Fedasiuk, adjunct fellow w...
By Ryan Fedasiuk
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Pentagon steps into Senate chip debate, citing national security
Pentagon officials are pressing lawmakers to back legislation to fund the domestic production of semiconductor chips, arguing it is essential for national security. Ahead of ...
By Martijn Rasser
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As Russia Runs Low on Drones, Iran Plans to Step In, U.S. Officials Say
Iran has supplied drone technology to Hezbollah in Lebanon; to Houthi rebels in Yemen attacking Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates; and to Shiite militias in Iraq, whic...
By Samuel Bendett
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Chinese drone maker lobbies to defeat US national security ban
China’s blacklisted DJI is battling to maintain its dominance of the US drone market by lobbying Congress to block a bill barring the federal government from buying its unmann...
By Alexandra Seymour
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Russia Seems to Be Running Low on Drones
Russia, which used drones to terrifying effect in its initial 2014 invasion of Ukraine, appears in the current campaign to be losing both small and large drones at a rapid pac...
By Samuel Bendett
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White House: Iran set to deliver armed drones to Russia
The White House on Monday said it believes Russia is turning to Iran to provide it with “hundreds” of unmanned aerial vehicles, including weapons-capable drones, for use in it...
By Samuel Bendett
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In North Africa, a fighter jet arms race, with Russia and the US on either side
While it may not make the rounds in Washington as one of the big geopolitical rivalries of the era, tensions between Morocco and Algeria are real, and have escalated in recent...
By Samuel Bendett
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Pentagon reaches important waypoint in long journey toward adopting ‘responsible AI’
The Pentagon’s new 47-page responsible AI implementation plan will inform its work to sort through the incredibly thorny known and unknown issues that could come with fully in...
By Megan Lamberth
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Russian Officials Talk About Unplugging the Country from the Internet. But Is That Possible?
Russian officials are talking about cutting their country off from the internet amid the international and domestic backlash to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But would the sys...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Is Turning Its Small Drones Into (Inaccurate) Bombers
Russia may have just gained more than a thousand new bombers. But Ukrainian forces may have little to worry about, as the Orlan-10 drones they are converting into attack plane...
By Samuel Bendett
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‘War-enabling, not war-winning’: how are drones affecting the Ukraine war?
Shot after shot pounded into the Russian missile battery hidden by the lighthouse on Snake Island, a Black Sea rock 22 miles (35km) from the Ukrainian coast. The edited video,...
By Samuel Bendett
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The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech
A command centre to scan the digital realm for global disinformation campaigns. Standardised plugs for electric cars that will work both in America and in the European Union (...
By Martijn Rasser
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Russia's tanks in Ukraine have a 'jack-in-the-box' design flaw. And the West has known about it since the Gulf war
Russian tanks with their tops blown off are just the latest sign that Russia's invasion of Ukraine isn't going to plan. Hundreds of Russian tanks are thought to have been des...
By Samuel Bendett