COMMENTARY: America’s Drone Delusion
“The assumption that large-scale acquisition of AI-enabled drones will strengthen U.S. defenses against China is misguided. For one thing, lessons from the war in Ukraine—an attritional, inconclusive struggle between two fundamentally land-centric armed forces—often do not apply directly to other kinds of conflicts,” writes Justin Bronk, senior research fellow for airpower and technology at the Royal United Services Institute.
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Schiebel Successfully Concludes Initial CAMCOPTER S-300 Flights in France
By The Editor on Dec 19, 2025 07:55 am
– Schiebel has successfully completed the first CAMCOPTER S-300 flight test campaign in France, marking an important milestone in the programme’s progression. The flights were conducted at the CESA Drones test site in Sainte-Hélène near Bordeaux, where the S-300 further expanded the operational envelope, reaching a total of 100 flight hours. The flight activities in […]
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MatrixSpace Wins DIU, JIATF-401, USNORTHCOM, US ARMY C-UAS Low-Cost Sensing Challenge
By The Editor on Dec 19, 2025 07:47 am
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), in close collaboration with U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF-401), U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, announced top-performing solutions for the Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft System (C-sUAS) Low-Cost Sensing (LCS) challenge. – MatrixSpace Inc. has been selected as the overall winner and […]
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Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and XTEND Expand Joint All Domain Command and Control for Advanced Mission Execution
By The Editor on Dec 19, 2025 07:45 am
– Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and XTEND collaborated to integrate the XTEND Operating System (XOS) into Skunk Works’ MDCX autonomy platform, allow simultaneous Command and Control (C2) of multiple classes of UAS, creating improved situational awareness for lower-level mission execution in joint all-domain C2 (JADC2) scenarios. In November, the two companies demonstrated an integrated Multi-Class […]
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Germany Opens Joint Drone Defence Centre in Berlin
By The Editor on Dec 19, 2025 07:45 am
Germany has inaugurated a Joint Drone Defence Centre [Gemeinsame Drohnenabwehrzentrum] (GDAZ) in Berlin to better detect and neutralize unauthorized drones in the future, with operations set to commence in January. In the new centre, which is located within the Federal Police, representatives from security agencies, the armed forces, or Bundeswehr, and intelligence services will be […]
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Rheinmetall Gets $1BN Skyranger 30 C-UAS Weapons Order from the Netherlands
By The Editor on Dec 19, 2025 07:16 am
The Netherlands Ministry of Defence is purchasing new air defence systems. The contract for these so-called Skyrangers was signed recently in Soesterberg. This purchase will give the Netherlands greater capabilities to defend itself against the threat of drones in the highest levels of violence. The contract includes the supply of Skyranger 30 weapon platforms, Skyranger […]
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MiG-23 – Jet So Fast the US Had to Steal One
By The Editor on Dec 19, 2025 07:00 am
In a secret base buried deep within the Nevada desert, a pilot climbs into a jet unlike anything ever built on American soil. The controls are alien, scattered with no apparent logic, covered in strange, foreign letters. No ordinary pilot could ever decipher the maze of dials and switches. Yet somehow, the man in the […]
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