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The upcoming issue of Advanced Electronics Packaging Digest explores several technologies shaping the future of advanced packaging, from maintaining stable environments inside hermetic packages to managing heat in increasingly complex 3D architectures. The issue also examines packaging innovations for aerospace, defense, and automotive applications, as well as broader connections between semiconductor interconnects and the systems they support.

Defense Speak Interpreted: Extreme Financial Disparity in Drones and Missiles

June 9, 2026 | Dennis Fritz, Defense Speak Interpreted

There has been a lot of publicity about the cost of U.S. weapons used in the Iran conflict since it started on Feb. 28. Several aspects of the conflict deserve attention to explain extreme financial disparity. Iran uses both drones and missiles. In particular, Iran’s Shahed drones are a family of Iranian-designed UAVs primarily known for their widespread use as cost-effective, one-way "kamikaze" (suicide) attack munitions. Drones have become a disruptive force in modern warfare by overwhelming expensive air defense systems with low-cost mass deployment.




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