by Allen McDuffee | Mar 20, 2014 | Monitor
With UAVs crowding navigable airspace and plans underway to put giant mega-satellites into orbit, it was just a matter of time before a drone-satellite hybrid was developed to fit between the two spaces. StratoBus, a new project out of France, is conceptualized to do...
by Allen McDuffee | Feb 28, 2014 | Monitor
The Navy is developing a five-pound, 25-inch mini-munition that it’s calling “the world’s smallest guided missile.”
by Allen McDuffee | Feb 21, 2014 | Monitor
The U.S. may be forced to withdraw troops completely from Afghanistan by the end of the year. That’s bad news if you’re the CIA, and your lethal drone flights over neighboring Pakistan rely on the close proximity of Afghan airstrips. Not surprisingly, the...
by zen | Jan 24, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] My reading at CNAS, which had once been frequent, declined with the waning of the Abu Muqawama blog. While formerly I usually scanned through CNAS reports on a regular basis after reading what Exum and his commenters had...
by Allen McDuffee | Jan 16, 2014 | Monitor
An effort by President Obama to transfer America’s lethal, highly classified drone program from the CIA to the Pentagon appears to have been thwarted by lawmakers wielding a secret weapon of their own.
