File photo of an MQ-9 Reaper drone taking off at Wheeler-Sack Army Air Field in Fort Drum, N.Y., … [+] Feb. 14, 2012. U.S. Air Force A Russian fighter jet collided with a U.S. surveillance drone...
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Russian Jet Crashes Into U.S. Drone Over Black Sea, U.S. Military Says
Topline A Russian fighter jet hit the propeller of a U.S. Air Force surveillance drone over the Black Sea Tuesday morning, forcing it to crash, the U.S. European Command confirmed, amid heightened ten...
Iran And Turkey Push Ahead With Ambitious Drone Factory Projects In Russia And Ukraine
Recent reports indicate that Iran and Turkey are pushing ahead with their respective projects to build enormous factories in Russia and Ukraine for manufacturing large numbers of their homegrown Shahe...
What Is The Pentagon’s Updated Policy On Killer Robots?
The Pentagon has issued an update to its Directive 3000.09, which covers what they term Autonomy in Weapon Systems and others call ‘killer robots.’ Current drones like the Air Force and CIA MQ-9 Reape...
Covert Israeli Operations Against Iranian Missiles And Drone Plants Might Help Ukraine
Israel is the prime suspect behind the suspected drone attack on Saturday against a military target near the central Iranian city of Isfahan. The attack occurred a little over a day after an Israeli o...
Israel Reportedly Carries Out Drone Strikes On Iranian Factory On Eve Of Blinken’s Middle East Tour
Topline An Iranian defense factory was targeted by Israeli drone strikes late Saturday night, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing U.S. officials, an attack that comes amid growing tensions over I...
Russian Jamming Fails To Stop More Drone Attacks
Russia extended its attempts to jam satellite navigation systems after the drone attack on Engels Airbase on December 5th. Open-source data show a huge ‘bubble’ of jamming signals around Moscow and se...
Ukraine Is Fielding A ‘Heinz 57’ Fleet Of Heavy Drone Bombers Against Russian Forces
In the early days of the war, Ukraine’s small drone strike force could be easily divided into two types: improvised consumer DJI quadcopters armed with small Vog-17 or hand grenades, and R-18 octocopt...
China And The US At Odds As Globalisation Falters And Strategic Autonomy Rises
388291 02: The Air Force’s Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Makes Aerospace History As The First … [+] Uav To Fly Unrefueled 7,500 Miles Across The Pacific Ocean From Edwards Air Force ...
Ukraine’s Drones Spell Danger For A Vast Swathe Of Russia As New Airbase Strike Reported
The Ukrainian strikes which we reported yesterday on Russian airbases 400 miles inside Russian territory have huge implications for this conflict. Now social media reports describe a fresh drone attac...
Ukraine Pulled Ex-Soviet Recon Drones Out Of Storage, Added Bombs And Sent Them Hurtling Toward Russia
An ex-Soviet Tu-141 variant in storage in Moscow in 2012. Alan Wilson photo The drones that Ukrainian forces used to strike two Russian bomber bases 300 miles inside Russia on Monday weren’t the satel...
Ukraine’s Drone Boats Are Winning The Black Sea Naval War
A Ukrainian unmanned surface vehicle, beached near Sevastopol. Via social media An apparent Ukrainian drone-boat strike on Novorossiysk, a hundred miles from Russian-occupied Crimea in southern Russia...
Israel’s Autonomous Urban Quadcopter Brings ‘Search & Attack In One’
Trapped by enemy fire from all directions in urban combat, an infantry unit calls for Lanius – and a swarm of drones appears, entering the surrounding building to find and eliminate the enemy firing p...
Four Days After A Ukrainian Drone Assault, Russia’s Black Sea Flagship Is Still Afloat
‘Admiral Makarov’ in 2018. Russian defense ministry photo The Ukrainian drone assault on Sevastopol, the home port of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, may have damaged one of the fleet’s two best...
Bitcoin Drone Show Flies Over Lugano – Trustnodes
A bitcoin drone show lit up the city of Lugano in Switzerland’s border with Italy, commemorating the closing of the bitcoin conference Plan ₿. The show was put on by Cyberdrone, which describes itself...
Videos Reveal Drone Kamikaze Boat Assault On Russia’s Black Sea Fleet
Perspective of USV approaching Russian Navy frigate Admiral Makarov on morning of October 29. Video capture from Ukrainian military video On the morning of October 29, warships of Russia’s Black Sea F...
Global Food Crisis Back On? Russia Bails From Grain Deal, Blaming Ukraine Drone Attack
Topline Russian officials reneged on its deal with Ukraine clearing the Black Sea for grain exports, after it claimed Ukraine led a drone strike on its Crimean naval fleet—threatening what officials w...
Israel Rolls Out Legion-X Drone Swarm For The Urban Battlefield
Israel is converting elite infantry support companies into “seek and strike” units equipped with swarming drones to search buildings and carry out attacks. The swarm is powered by Legion-X, an “autono...
Ukraine Wins First Drone Vs. Drone Dogfight Against Russia, Opening A New Era Of Warfare
A video posted on Twitter by Ukrainian broadcaster and activist Serhiy Prytula is claimed to show a dogfight between Russian and Ukrainian drones, both DJI Mavic quadcopters. Prytula, who has been hea...
Leadership Actions On Drones Put Lives At Risk And Undermine U.S. Security
MQ-1 Predator A Tail 3034, first to fire a Hellfire in combat. Photo by Eric Long, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Exactly 21 years ago today U.S. military commanders first employed a weapo...
Is It A New Ukrainian Attack Drone?
Ukraine may be using a new type of drone boat supplied by the U.S. to attack Russian warships in the Black Sea. Russian forces found a drone boat washed up on a beach close to their naval base at Seva...
Russia Is Now Using Iranian ‘Swarming’ Attack Drones In Ukraine — Here’s What We Know
Images from Ukraine provide the first photographic evidence of Iranian-made drones used by Russia. The pictures, taken by an Ukrainian officer and posted on Twitter, appear to show the remains of a Sh...
How Ukrainian Gunner Scored A Record-Breaking Tank-To-Tank Kill From Six Miles Away
A new video apparently shows a Ukrainian T-64BV knocking out a Russian tank from 10,600 metres away. That’s 6.5 miles, the longest-range tank kill ever, doubling the previous record. Many commenters d...
Inside Google’s Plan To Deliver Almost Everything To Almost Everyone Via Drone
Your next fridge won’t come via drone. Your next mattress won’t arrive from the sky. And your next TV won’t be airlifted from a central warehouse to your 45th floor condo or your suburban McMansion. B...
The Ukrainians Have Struck Another Russian Airfield In Crimea
The air base at Hvardiiske before the Aug. 16, 2022 raid. Maxar Technologies photo A Ukrainian drone blew up an ammunition dump at a Russian airfield near Hvardiiske in occupied Crimea on Tuesday, acc...
U.S. Kills Top Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahri In Afghanistan Drone Strike
Topline Al-Qaeda’s leader Ayman al-Zawahri—considered a major force behind the September 11 attacks—was killed over the weekend by an American drone strike in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul, Pres...
Ukraine Racing Drone Converted Into Loitering Munition Makes Precision Strike Through Doorway
Ukraine’s armed forces and in particular the Aerorozvidka (“Aerial Reconnaissance”) volunteers have shown how effectively consumer drones can be used to find targets, direct artillery fire, assess bat...
After Five Months, The Russians Finally Managed To Destroy Some Ukrainian Drone Equipment
A Ukrainian TB-2. Ground control stations are visible in the background. Photo via Wikimedia Commons In five months of hard fighting, Russian forces shot down at least 12 of Ukraine’s Turkish-made Bay...
New U.K. Drones Will Bring Supplies To The Front Line
When Ukrainian forces were surrounded in Mariupol in May, helicopter crews flew daring resupply missions into the besieged city. Flying in pairs, the Mi-8 helicopters brought desperately -needed weapo...
Is Iran Seeking To Become A Bona Fide Arms Exporter With Russia Drone Sale?
As the Oct. 18, 2020, expiration date of the UN arms embargo against Iran loomed, there was substantial speculation that Tehran would seek to modernize its aged military arsenal by importing Russian h...