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The nearest the world has seen to a fully autonomous weapon in the Ukrainian conflict to date comes from Britain, according to Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow for air power and technology at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).  He says the Brimstone missile, made by Franco-British company MBDA, …

Abishur Prakash, geopolitical futurist for the Center for Innovating the Future, discussed the potential scenarios that could unfold in the new arms race for autonomous military robots. He is the author of the book, ‘The Age Of Killer Robots’ and the world’s top expert on the geopolitical implications of emerging …

An MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 214th Attack Group, Arizona Air National Guard, flies over Michigan. U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Lealan Buehre Goodbye, Reaper. Hello, Skyborg. The U.S. Air Force wants a new hunter-killer drone to replace its current fleet of 306 propeller-driven MQ-9 Reapers. And …

March 2, 2020 – 18:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net – Turkey deployed swarms of killer drones to strike Russian-backed Syrian government forces, in what a senior official said was a military innovation that demonstrated Ankara’s technological prowess on the battlefield, Bloomberg reports. The retaliation for the killing last week of 33 Turkish …

Key point: Taipei is looking for new technologies and weapons to deter Beijing, and that includes drones. China already has its own attack drones, so Taiwan might as well get its own too. Taiwan reportedly has solved a problem that has prevented the island country from developing its own medium-altitude attack …

China is exporting unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to the Middle East which are capable of launching autonomous attacks. That’s according to the Pentagon’s top leader, US defense secretary Mark Esper, who gave a speech about artificial intelligence at the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence public conference on 5 November. …

Key point: Beijing’s CH-4 may be cheaper than American drones, but it isn’t as good either. China’s CH-4 killer drone appears to be falling out of favor with some of its major operators. The Iraqi air force is down to just one operational CH-4 out of a fleet of around 10, …

The first trailer for The Drone is here, which finally gives us the horror movie about drones that was always inevitably going to happen. Drones have become something far more commonplace than any of us likely expected they would ever be. Not only do tech giants like Amazon and Google …