In The News
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Why the US is Sending Israel a Powerful Thaad Anti-missile SystemBBC | 15 Oct 2024
Decker Eveleth said, “the images [depicting damage at the Nevatim base including craters on the runway and taxiway] showed 32 impact points, including multiple hits in the area of F-35 hangers.”
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Iranian Missile Attack Leaves Region on Edge, Wondering What Comes NextEpoch Times | 09 Oct 2024
Decker Eveleth said, “several of the missiles landed near hangers housing Israeli F-35 stealth fighter jets, with one possible direct hit.”
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Satellite Images that Have the World on EdgeNews.com.au | 06 Oct 2024
Decker Eveleth said, “It seems the strike on Mossad headquarters in Glilot was the least successful. We only saw two impacts, and the one impact that landed even remotely near the headquarters building did so about 520 meters away from the building itself.”
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Escalation with Iran Could be Risky: Israel is More Vulnerable than It SeemsThe Guardian | 05 Oct 2024
Decker Eveleth said, “Airbases are hard targets, and the sort of target that likely won’t produce many casualties. Iran could choose a different target – say, a densely packed IDF ground forces base, or a target within a civilian area – and a missile strike there would produce a large number of [casualties].
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Swears Israel ‘Won’t Last Long’The Telegraph | 04 Oct 2024
Decker Eveleth said, "This was indeed a straightforward overwhelm of Israeli missile defence. Israeli defence sites are not safe from Iranian attack, and if Iran so chose, they could choose a target that would be sure to generate Israeli military casualties.”
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Clearer Picture Of Damage To Israeli Airbase From Iranian Ballistic Missiles EmergesThe War Zone | 04 Oct 2024
Decker Eveleth said, “these reveal “at least 33 likely impact craters, with likely more impacts currently obscured by clouds.” The total number of impacts is therefore probably closer to 40.”
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Scrutinizing North Korea’s Nuclear Missiles From the SkyNK News Podcast | 29 Aug 2024
Decker Eveleth joins the podcast to discuss where exactly North Korea’s missile program stands today, and why it presents a security problem not only for Asia and the U.S. but for the entire globe.
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How North Korea’s Tactical Missile Deployment Aggravates Risks of Nuclear UseNK News | 12 Aug 2024
Decker Eveleth wrote, “North Korean leader Kim Jung Un made a show of delivering over 250 tactical ballistic missile launchers to 'front line units' but NK Pro analysis shows that DPRK already began deploying the modern missile system over a year ago, a troubling development that raises the risk of nuclear use in the peninsula."
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Lessons Learnt from Drone Combat in UkrainePrinciples of War Podcast | 04 Aug 2024
This episode features Sam Bendett. He was written extensively on the war in Ukraine and in particular the drone combat occurring there. We look at how the generation of the combined arms effect is changing and what the lessons learnt are from the battlefields of Ukraine.
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Poland Joins Global Race for AI-Driven Autonomous DronesBalkan Insight | 31 Jul 2024
Samuel Bendett explained, “A lot of this autonomy depends on data sets, the information that’s pre-loaded and taught to the drone. But the Ukrainian field is very complex, with numerous man-made obstacles, and things a human could recognise intuitively – whether a vehicle is operative or abandoned, whether the physical terrain has been altered – are really hard tricks to teach a drone.”
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Integrating Melanesia into the Indo-Pacific Security ArchitectureNational Bureau of Asian Research | 25 Jul 2024
Margaret Sparling said, "Integrating Melanesia—a region that comprises the Pacific Island countries of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu—into the Indo-Pacific security framework is necessary for U.S. security interests given the region’s positioning along strategic maritime passageways and role in connecting the U.S. and its regional allies."
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Canada Wants 12 New Submarines to Bolster Arctic Defense as NATO Watches Russia and China Move InCBS News | 18 Jul 2024
Dmitry Gorenburg said, "[Russia's] been quite eager to develop this Northern Sea Route. They had visions of using the route, which runs through Russia's Exclusive Economic Zone, as an alternative to the southern routes via the Suez or Panama Canals. The Arctic route can cut transit times down by as much as 20 days."
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Ukraine Rushes to Create AI-enabled War DronesReuters | 18 Jul 2024
Samuel Bendett said, "AI drone control systems would likely need a human in the loop to prevent the system making errors in target selection."
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Russia is Building Ground-based Kamikaze Robots out of Old HoverboardsNew Scientist | 12 Jul 2024
Samuel Bendett commented on Russia building ground-based robots out of hoverboards.
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Ukraine Is Fighting Russia With Toy Drones and Duct-Taped BombsBloomberg | 10 Jul 2024
Samuel Bendett said, “Ukraine is building its own supply chain for carbon fiber frames and propellers, which are easy to source domestically even if they cost more than their Chinese equivalents. Also designed locally are the wireless communication chips, which use noncommercial frequencies that are harder to jam. And it makes reusable drones that carry FPV equipment deep into enemy territory.”
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Exclusive: Satellite Photos Show Iran Expanding Missile ProductionReuters | 08 Jul 2024
Decker Eveleth said, "The sites' long history with Iran's missile program – Shahid Modarres is considered by some experts as its birthplace - and the numerous dirt berms support their assessment that Tehran is expanding ballistic missile production."