White House national security spokesman John Kirby noted that the U.S. government is concerned about Tehran’s growing military cooperation with Moscow.
Sen. Chuck Grassley has warned that drones rigged with explosives—like the ones used by Hamas against Israeli civilians—pose a threat along the southern border.
The Defense Department will use the Replicator Initiative to field thousands of autonomous systems across multiple domains to compete with China’s military.
Twice in the past three days, attack drones have struck a financial district in Moscow, posing what the Kremlin describes as a “clear and present” danger. Kyiv, for its part, has hailed recent attacks—in both Moscow and Crimea—while declining to take responsibility for them.