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The Current Brief 006
The Hellfire changed the Predator’s mission. The bigger transformation involved the military system behind it.
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From RQ-1 to MQ-1: How Retrofitting the Predator Changed Modern Warfare
How the Predator evolved from RQ-1 reconnaissance to the armed MQ-1—and what that transformation reveals about modernization, military operations, and the limits of retrofit claims.
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Paper Balloons, Secret Censorship, and the First Intercontinental Drone Campaign
Cover image: Japanese Fu-Go balloon recovered and reinflated at Moffett Field in 1945. U.S. Army photograph A 37180C (U.S. public domain). Archival source and rights. On May 5, 1945, a group of six civilians gathered near Bly, Oregon, for a picnic. Their encounter with a strange object in the forest would become one of the…
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The Current Brief 003
Stuxnet and the Cyber-Physical Battlefield
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Stuxnet: How Malware Crossed Into the Physical World
Cover image: Siemens SIMATIC S7-300 industrial programmable controller, photographed by Ulli1105; representative equipment, not a photograph of the Natanz facility. Original photograph, CC BY-SA 2.5; resized for this site. Introduction In 2010, security researchers uncovered Stuxnet, a highly specialized piece of malware that became a landmark case in the history of cyber-physical conflict. Unlike conventional…