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National Defense Magazine — 100 episodes

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April 2026: Golden Dome, Special Ops Fleet, and Ukraine's Brave1

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March 2026: the Marines' New Boat, the Venezuelan Mission, and Navy Ships

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February 2026: Inflation, the Marines' New Force Design, and U.S. Space Launch Infrastructure

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January 2026: Sentinel, Tungsten, and the EU's Drone Wall

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December 2025: Icebreakers, Army Special Ops Robotics, and Army Training Headset

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November 2025: Special Ops Aircraft, Uncrewed Maritime Systems, and Munitions Production

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October 2025: DIY Drones, Airborne Comms and Navy Robots in NATO Waters

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September 2025: Ground Robots in Ukraine, 155mm Artillery Round Production and Drone Executive Orders

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August 2025: U.S.-China Biotechnology Race, Hypersonic Weapons and Atlantic Alliance 25

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July 2025: Special Ops aircraft, Marine Corps drones and Army vehicles

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June 2025: Ghost Bat, AUKUS and Project Convergence

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May 2025: MQ-25, Golden Dome and XM30

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April 2025: Special Shipbuilding Report

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March 2025: AUKUS Tech, the Air Force and the Navy's Hybrid Fleet

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February 2025: Small Vehicle Drone Protection, Air and Missile Defense in the Middle East, and Electronic Warfare in Space

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January 2025: NATO in the Arctic, AI in the Pentagon, and Army Maintenance and Repair

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December 2024: DIU and Drones, the Army's Self-Propelled Howitzer Modernization Program, and GCAP

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November 2024: 5G Training, Red Hawk Simulators, and Navy LVC

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October 2024: XM-30, CJADC2 and Poland

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September 2024: 155mm Ammunition, the F-22 Raptor, and the Army's Extended Range Cannon Artillery Program

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August 2024: U.S. and Japan, Small Drones and the SEAL's New Tech

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July 2024: NATO's Return to Collective Defense, Sweden's Role and the Nordic Bloc

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June 2024: The Army and Nuclear Protection, Collisions in Space and Marine Corps Evacuation

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May 2024: V-22, Laser Comms in Space, and Project Convergence

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April 2024: Littoral Combat Ship, Project Convergence and IVAS

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March 2024: AUKUS in Space, North Star 75 and the KC-135 Tanker

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February 2024: Journey to an Electric Fleet, the Stingray and Modernizing the Army's Artillery Systems

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January 2024: Replicator Initiative, Generative AI and the Precision Strike Missile

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December 2023: The Arctic Angels, Victus Nox and Triton

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November 2023: AI, ICMBs and Red Hawk

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October 2023: 24-in-23, the Marine Raiders' Search for AI, And the Department's 5G Capabilities

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September 2023: eVTOL Aircraft, Shifting Munitions Requirements And The Marines' Reconnaissance Program

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August 2023: U.S. Hypersonics, Space Propulsion Technology and the Defense Industry's Struggles to Attract Talent

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July 2023: JADC2, DDG(X) and Special Ops Float Plane

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June 2023: V-22 Osprey, Space Force Tracking and Australia's Defence Strategic Review

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May 2023: Railgun, NGAD and Special Ops Rifle

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April 2023: AUKUS, E-7A and 3D Printing

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March 2023: AUKUS

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February 2023: Vital Signs 2023, Defense Workforce, Rare Earths

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January 2023: B-21 Raider, Space Development Agency, Navy Mine Warfare

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December 2022: USS Gerald R. Ford, Project Convergence, X-Rays For Bomb Techs

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November 2022: The Metaverse, Small Arms and the Space Force

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October 2022: The Army and Auto Racing, Counter-Drone Tech and Air & Missile Defense

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September 2022: Rim of the Pacific

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August 2022: Loitering Munitions, the RD-180 Rocket Engine and Nuclear Submarines

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July 2022: Energetics, Special Ops helicopters and Next-Gen Squad Weapons

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June 2022: Army Energy Innovations, the Black Hawk Replacement, and Airlift Capacity

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May 2022: SOCOM's Little Bird, the Navy's New Torpedo, and Polar Security Cutters

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April 2022: The MQ-25 Stingray, Marine Corps trucks and the B-52's new engine

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March 2022: China's advanced missiles, aerial refueling and satcom in space

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February 2022: Force Design 2030, leader-follower technology and illegal fishing

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January 2022: Vital Signs 2022, Micro 3D Printing and the Army's Project Convergence

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December 2021: The United States team up with Australia, Japan and India

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November 2021: Boeing's Red Hawk, the Future of Chem-Bio Defense and Training with Haptic Technologies

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October 2021: Electric Vehicles, International Space Collaboration and Revitalizing Sealift Capabilities

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September 2021: Rare Earth Mining, the F-15EX, and Marine Corps Training

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August 2020: Reusable Rockets, the Navy's Information Warfare and Hypersonic Weapons

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July 2021: Arctic vehicle, mobile nuclear reactor and Navy barnacle prevention

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June 2021: F35-A, Long range strikes, additive manufacturing

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May 2021: Arctic Special Ops, light amphibious warships, cyberhacking

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April 2020: Counter drone tech, healing the helicopter industrial base, and the progress on Columbia-class subs

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March 2021 - Navy's robotic ship plans, SOCOM's AI-enabled vehicle and a new laser system for Aegis

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February 2021 - Army small arms portfolio, industry satellite servicing efforts and U.S.-Australia hypersonic cruise missile program

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January 2021 - NDIA Second Annual Vital Signs Report, Navy's New Torpedo and Army's Iron Dome Missile Defense System

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December 2020 - Air Force Pilots, Quantum and 3D Printing

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November 2020 - Pentagon's AI and Ethics, Air Force Laser Weapons on Fighter Jets and the Defense Secretary's Navy Plans

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October 2020 - Air Force Drones, the Army's Stryker Vehicle and the Pentagon's Lessons Learned from the Pandemic

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September 2020 - Air Force's Drone Replacement, Marine Corps' Infantry Weapons and Global Strike Command's New Innovation Hub

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August 2020 - Future of Space Force, Army's Search for COVID-19 Vaccine and Laser Communication Terminals

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July 2020 - Air Force Flying Cars Initiative, Navy Robotic Ships and SOCOM Biotech

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June Podcast - Marine Corps, R&D Priorities and New DARPA Efforts

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May 2020 - COVID-19, Air Force Special Ops and Nuclear Reactor Plants

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April 2020: Army's Robotic Combat Vehicle Initiative, Land and Sea Mines

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March 2020: The Balance of Power Between U.S. and Chinese Navies

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February 2020

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January 2020 - Vital Signs: Taking the Pulse of the Defense Industrial Base

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The Pentagon's pursuit of virtual and augmented reality headwear, its path to employing 5G networks and the T-7A Red Hawk program

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November 2019 - Army Research Efforts

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October 2019 - Army's Scout Attack Helicopter, Navy's Unmanned Vessels and the Pentagon's Bomb Disposal Tech

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September 2019 - Sixth-Generation Aircraft, Marine Corps' amphibious combat vehicle and hypersonic maneuverability.

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August 2019 - Pentagon's Arctic Strategy, Army's Small Arms Initiatives and Robotic Wingman Programs

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July 2019 - Hypersonic Technologies, Army's Robotic Initiatives and Artificial Intelligence

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June 2019 - International Market for the F-35, Navy's Shipbuilding Plans

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May 2019 - Special Operations Command's Vehicles

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April 2019 - Space-Based Missile Defense, Marine Corps' Robotic Tech and the Navy's New Helicopter

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March 2019 - Quantum Race in the National Security Community

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February 2019 - International Military Vehicles, New Body Armor and Autonomous Truck Convoys

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January 2019 - Next Gen Squad Rifle, Navy Training & Network Capabilities

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December 2018 - Training the Space Force, GPS III Launch and Mine Warfare

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November 2018 - Columbus-Class Submarine, Directed Energy and B-21 Bomber

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October 2018 - Next Gen Combat Vehicle, Navy and Neuro-Weapon Attack

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September 2018 - Robotic Jets, Marine Corps' New Amphibious Vehicle and Battlefield Fuel

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August 2018 - Research and Development Big Bets

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July 2018-Improving Lethality of Weapons, New Space Launch Options & Advanced Super Hornet Cockpit

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June 2018-Technology Shortfalls in the Arctic, Ground Robots & GPS Alternatives

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May 2018-Special Operations Command's Ten 10 Technologies

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355: Is Navy Shipbuilding Vision Real or a Mirage?

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March 2018-A look at ground robots, unmanned aerial platforms and nuclear cruise missiles

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February 2018-Dominating the Battlefield: Upgraded equipment to give dismounted troops the edge

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January 2018 - Tunnel Warfare: Technologies for finding and defeating underground strongholds