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A team of Department of Defense drone operators and experts test the technical capabilities of various Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) during a Defense Innovation Unit led prize challenge to identify platforms, components, and capabilities for Blue UAS, which clears and validates flying platforms are safe to fly, cyber-secure, and meet DOD requirements, at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, on Nov. 2-6, 2024. The Blue UAS Refresh Challenge included more than 35 platforms and companies, and an expert team of 40 military drone end-users with participation from each service branch and several major program offices in support of the Department???s ability to quickly scale and field commercially produced drone technologies for military and government use. (DOD photo by Devon Bistarkey, Defense Innovation Unit) https://www.war.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2003592438/

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What to read this week: Katrina Manson’s terrifying Project Maven

It is scarily fascinating to read about the US military's journey into AI warfare in this deeply-researched book. But what happens next, asks Matthew Sparkes

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Why the world’s militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink

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Head of research and development, call sign "Shark", leads the KillHouse drone school in Kyiv, Ukraine. He stands in the middle of a room, filled with electrical equipment, screens, wires, and a desk to do repairs on drones.

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How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented the future of war

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Russia-US nuclear pact is about to end and we won’t see another

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Physics

The US is unlikely to test nuclear weapons, despite what Trump says

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Solar-powered ambush drones can wait for targets like land mines

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Society

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From doomy prophecies to epic dystopias, we are suckers for end times

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Technology

How the drone battles of Ukraine are shaping the future of war

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Technology

Drone versus drone combat is bringing a new kind of warfare to Ukraine

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Society

A Declaration on Future Generations could bring the changes we need

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