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Japan Experimenting with the Deployment of Drones for Missile Interception

The Japanese Self Defense Forces are exploring the use of drones in early missile launch detection and interception. The idea was spurred by the failure of North Korea to launch its missile in April. The current Japanese early warning system, an array of systems comprised of satellites, aegis cruisers, and ground based radar, was unable […]

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Science & Technology

The War of the Drones.

What if another country or a terrorist organization were able to deploy military drones with capabilities similar to those used by the United States? This is a possible reality that Micah Zenko from the Council on Foreign Relations thinks about when he questions the practice of the Bush and Obama administrations of sending these drones […]

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