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American Drone Startup Notches Rare Victory in Ukraine
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Above a battlefield littered with failed American drones, California startup Shield AI notched an important victory in Ukraine. The company in August became a rare Western sup...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Why the Pentagon is Betting Big on Long-Range Ukrainian Drones: ‘It Works’
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“[The Ukrainians] have such a vibrant and diverse drone industry that’s doing really, really exciting things, and they’re doing them for really cheap,” Stacie Pettyjohn, direc...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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CNAS Releases Open Source Dataset on Drone Proliferation
Press Release
Washington, September 10, 2024 – Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released the Drone Proliferation Dataset by Molly Campbell. As drones become an increasin...
By Molly Campbell
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How Underwater Drones Could Shape a Potential Taiwan-China Conflict
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A potential future conflict between Taiwan and China would be shaped by novel methods of drone warfare involving advanced underwater drones and increased levels of autonomy, a...
By Stacie Pettyjohn, Hannah Dennis & Molly Campbell
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Why a Drone War in Asia Would Look Different from the One in Ukraine
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Twenty years ago the drone was a rarity in conflict. In 2003, the first year of its war in Iraq, America had a paltry 163 drones, around 1% of its entire fleet of aircraft. No...
By Stacie Pettyjohn, Hannah Dennis & Molly Campbell
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Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms
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“This is a big shift,” says Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security , a Washington, DC, think tank. She says that the US military has so fa...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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CNAS Announces Members of Defense Technology Task Force
Press Release
Washington, May 23, 2024—The Center for a New American Security is pleased to announce the members of its Defense Tech Task Force. They will be joined by the previously announ...
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Here’s the Defense Tech at the Center of U.S. Aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan
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For a closer look at the military technology at the center of the aid package, I spoke with Andrew Metrick, a fellow with the defense program at the Center for a New American ...
By Andrew Metrick
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The U.S. Can’t Let China Dominate the Small-Drone Market
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Russia’s war on Ukraine is a wake-up call on the dangers of letting an unfriendly nation dominate the drone market. Both sides are deploying thousands of Chinese drones, said ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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The Revolution That Wasn’t: How AI Drones Have Fizzled in Ukraine (So Far)
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In early February, a detailed report from the Center for a New American Security dismissed the AI drones in a few lines. “The Lancet-3 was advertised as having autonomous targ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Samuel Bendett
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How Cheap Drones Are Transforming Warfare in Ukraine
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The appeal of FPV drones is that they offer cheap, accurate firepower. Unguided artillery shells cost anywhere between $800 and $9,000. A GPS-guided shell is closer to $100,00...
By Franz-Stefan Gady & Samuel Bendett
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In Israel and Ukraine, Mix of Drones and Brute Force Shows Warfare’s Future
“It’s a constant competition between measures and countermeasures,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security. U.S. for...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Samuel Bendett
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A new school will train U.S. troops to fight a growing threat: small weaponized drones
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“You're seeing drones used on a scale that’s never been seen before,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, the director of the defense program at the Center for New American Security. So ma...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare
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At the moment, Ukraine’s small aerial drones have limited range and power, and most of them are either made in China or use Chinese components. By contrast, American-made surv...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
