Abstract The 2026 Iran conflict, involving U.S. and Israeli strike operations, Iranian missile-and-drone responses, and a wider regional dimension, highlighted several features of contemporary warfare that are directly relevant to Indonesia: massed drones and missiles, pressure on air-defense inventories, kill-chain competition, survivable launch networks, and the economic logic of the cost-exchange ratio. For an archipelagic state with vast maritime responsibilities and fini

Oleh Sandy Juda Pratama, Curie Maharani and Gautama Adi Kusuma | 22 April 2025 Drone ANKA buatan Turki. Sumber: AP Indonesia’s armed forces still have a lot of work to do in making proper use of drones. Two major challenges are pilot training and achieving interoperability between the services. Another is overcoming a predilection for big and costly drones instead of small ones like those wreaking havoc in Ukraine. Training drone pilots is a time-intensive process, ranging fr

by: Maula Mohamad Haykal Recently, at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Samuel Paparo,...

Written by Lane M. M. Afzaal The Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022 gives us a glimpse of how future wars may unfold. The use of drones as a key...