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Meet the Future Unmanned Force: Skybord and Valkyrie

Two new autonomous aircraft concepts that promise to redefine the Air Forceโ€™s unmanned fleet are moving forward. The latest, Skyborg, is an autonomous drone prototyping program underway at the Air Force Research Laboratory. Researchers hope to get the aircraftโ€”expected to be cheaper than other platforms and easily replaceableโ€”combat-ready by the end of 2023. Air Force

Why Americaโ€s Military Lusts over Laser Weapons (And May Never Get Them)

Directed energy has been a fetching technological idea for decades, but as Sandra Irwin wrote in National Defense in July 2015, the technology seemingly โ€œhas perennially been on the cusp of a major breakthrough.โ€ Last summer, though, Jason Ellis of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory wrote a report for the Center for a New American