Air Power

A new Royal United Services Institute paper makes the case that a future force will require a panoply of defensive systems to protect against drones. This will include short-range, mobile radar and electro-optical sensors, a countermeasures-resistant communications system, drone interceptors (such as Anduril’s tail-sitting Roadrunner) and missiles and guns with burst-at-range pre-fragmented ammunition. All this will require a software environment to identify and prioritise threats.

Overnight Israeli strikes in Lebanon have become increasingly commonplace in central Beirut, fueling fears across the country and ruining sleep patterns. Striking at night typically “privileges the side which has trained and prepared to do so, with sensors, visual aids and other technologies,” Matthew Savill, the director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank, told NBC News today.

Matthew Savill, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, said striking at night typically "privileges the side which has trained and prepared to do so, with sensors, visual aids and other technologies."