More than a year before the Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor attack, Britain’s Royal Navy gave the world a preview of the future of warfare when carrier-based torpedo-bombers launched a surprise attack on the Italian navy, damaging and destroying several vessels.
Now, Ukraine and Israel have both shown that small drones launched from behind enemy lines have the potential to devastate an adversary’s most valuable weapons systems.
The Pentagon recently announced a series of new initiatives that are meant to catapult the U.S. military into the forefront of small drone warfare.
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USINDOPACOM has marked the initial opening of “The Forge,” an advanced manufacturing facility at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii.
Moog showcased a new variant designed for counter-drone operations, of its Reconfigurable Integrated-weapons Platform (RIwP) in the UK, .
Plans by the U.S. Department of Defence announced in early June to cancel the planned procurement of E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) systems have faced mounting opposition from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, as this threatens to leave the Air Force indefinitely reliant on an increasingly obsolete fleet of E-3 Sentry systems procured during the Cold War. AEW&Cs carry by far the largest airborne radars in the world, and are relied on to control the tactical battlespace, using data links to increase to significantly increase the situational awareness of U.S.
The Hawker Siddeley Kestrel was the aviation world’s first jump jet, a Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing (or V/STOL) aircraft, a milestone in aviation history. Originally known as the P.1127, it was later renamed the Hawker Siddeley Kestrel. Its evolution led to the British Aerospace Harrier and ultimately the McDonnell Douglas AV-8 Harrier II.
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After the Korean War, interest in V/STOL aircraft was high.
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Though targeted for retirement by the U.S.
A Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) investigation has revealed that drug traffickers in Central and South America are infiltrating Ukrainian Foreign Legion units to gain experience operating first-person view drones, with this experience expected to be invaluable for use against rival gangs or security forces after the war. Mexico’s National Intelligence Center (CNI) has similarly warned that drug traffickers may be posing as volunteers to infiltrate Ukrainian Foreign Legion units for such purposes.
The Associated Press has reported that China’s defence sector is developing means of countering the American Starling satellite program, which is considered to pose a significant threat to Chinese security. Among the means reportedly proposed are the use of submarines equipped with laser weapons, the use of attack satellites with ion engines, and the use of optical telescopes to track Starlink satellites in orbit.
Despite the hype, drone swarming doesn’t exist yet. That’s because the U.S. Department of Defense has been focused on platform capability inputs like hardware, manufacturing, and GPS, while so far neglecting the architectural question of how drones are supposed to work together. The “swarming” on offer today consists of robotic maneuver en masse. However, a transformative strategic leap forward is within reach: resilient, collaborative, autonomous problem solving at machine speed, without any single point of failure.
L Todd Wood and Pete Blaber highlight false information being provided to POTUS on the Ukraine War.
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