Samuel Bendett, research analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses, discusses the recent explosions in Russia, the unmanned systems being used for reconnaissance and combat the explosions, and the first flight of the Okhotnik drone with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Uzi Rubin, PhD, one of the father’s of Israel’s Arrow missile defense system now with the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, discusses Iran’s missile threat to countries in the region, containing Tehran and hypersonic weapons with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted after Rubin addressed the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies’ Nuclear Deterrent Breakfast Series in Washington on July 9, 2019.
Don Sofge, roboticist at the Naval Research Laboratory, discusses the development of low-cost swarming systems for military and security applications with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Navy League’s recent 2019 Sea Air Space conference and tradeshow near Washington where our coverage was sponsored by GE Marine, Huntington Ingalls Industries and Leonardo DRS.
Tom Karako, a leading missile defense expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses key elements of the the Trump administration’s Missile Defense Review released Jan. 17, 2019, Chinese and Russian capabilities, hypersonic threats and defenses and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
As more countries acquire drones, will their widespread availability lead to greater military adventurism and conflict? Will countries be more willing to put a drone in harm’s way? If so, how will other nations respond? Would they be more willing to shoot down a drone than a human-inhabited aircraft? And if they did, are those incidents likely to escalate? To help answer these questions, in 2016 the Center for a New American Security conducted a survey experiment to better understand how experts and the general public viewed the use of force with drones.
Read the Report – A report by the Center for a New American Security examines the potential cost differences between a notional human-inhabited future naval aircraft and an uninhabited FNA. The authors assess the minimum cost avoidance of more than $30 billion over 30 years, with a more likely cost avoidance in excess of $100 billion. The report is authored by Paul Scharre, director of the CNAS Future of Warfare Initiative, and Daniel Berg, CNAS adjunct senior fellow.