CUxS CHRONICLE

May 2025

Recently, The Economic Times posted an article about how the Jiutian SS-UAV spooks the US, citing its long-range capabilities, drone swarm deployment, and high-altitude endurance as serious challenges to American air superiority. At first glance, the Jiutian appears to be a major leap in China's unmanned aerial warfare technology—an ambitious multi-role platform that merges surveillance, electronic warfare, and strike capabilities into a single high-altitude system.

CUxS CHRONICLE

April 2025

Modern Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) operations take place within a rapidly evolving and highly complex threat environment. Operators must navigate fragmented command structures, time-critical decisions, and a three-dimensional battlespace where drones may be detected dozens of kilometers out, yet engaged just hundreds of meters from a defended asset.

CUxS CHRONICLE

March 2025

Cartels have swiftly integrated unmanned systems into their operations, utilizing UAS for smuggling, surveillance, and counter-surveillance while also expanding into unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) for maritime activities.

CUxS CHRONICLE

February 2025

As new technologies continue to emerge on the battlefield, the fight against them increasingly requires innovation at the tactical level. The rapid development of unmanned systems, particularly drones, has posed significant challenges to traditional defense strategies.

CUxS CHRONICLE

January 2025

A FINANCIAL BATTLE IN THE AIR: The cost of detecting, tracking, identification, and defeat of an enemy’s air assets is almost always exponentially higher when compared to the cost of that air asset.