Social media capture Separate attempts by Ukrainian drone-operators to knock out Russian vehicles in Ukraine illustrate different approaches to do-it-yourself air raids. Both raids involved commercial...
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The Air Force Is Retiring Most of Its Global Hawk ISR Drones to A Test Role for Hypersonic Missiles
An RQ-4 Global Hawk receives routine maintenance after being refueled at Grand Forks Air Force Base, … [+] North Dakota. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Elora McCutcheon Most of the Air...
Ukrainian Kamikaze Drone Strike Sets Russian Oil Facility Ablaze
Russian media are showing a video this morning of a kamikaze drone attack on a Russian oil refinery which leaves the site in flames. The strike looks like the sort of Drone Doolittle Raid which Forbes...
It’s Not Economics Diminishing Drone Delivery
Two days ago, an op-ed appeared in the New York TimesNYT with the title, Where are the delivery drones, written by Shira Ovide. The op-ed asserts that for the foreseeable future, the opportunity and s...
How Ukraine Perfected The Small Anti-Tank Drone
Ukraine’s Aerorozvidka (“Aerial Reconnaissance”) teams are not the first to use small multicopters to drop bombs, but they have transformed the drones from nuisance weapons into tank killers. They hav...
Drone Ships Posed To Play Important Role In Russia-Ukraine War
The Russia-Ukraine war has featured more drone technology than any previous war. Indeed, part of Ukraine’s initial success is due to their effective usage of the Bayraktar TB2 aerial drones. Meanwhile...
Are Russia’s New Drone Killing Lasers Effective Weapons or A Sign of Desperation?
A picture taken on March 22, 2022 shows a downed Russian drone in the area of a research institute, … [+] part of Ukraine’s National Academy of Science, after a strike, in northwestern Kyi...
One Of The Most Dangerous Jobs In The Russian Navy
A ‘Serna’ landing craft maneuvers to avoid an apparent MAM missile on May 12, 2022. Maxar photo The Russian Black Sea Fleet began the wider war with Ukraine in late February with maybe 11 ...
The Russians Are Losing The Naval War Off Ukraine—To An Enemy With No Warships
A TB-2’s view of a ‘Raptor’ patrol boat right before hitting it with a missile. Ukrainian defense ministry Ukraine’s navy, which after scuttling its flagship no longer has a single l...
The Russians Got Caught Faking A TB-2 Drone Shoot-Down
The apparently-staged TB-2 crash from late April 2022. Via social media As Russia’s wider war in Ukraine enters its third month, Ukraine’s small force of Turkish-made TB-2 armed drones continues to pl...
Walgreens & Alphabet Launch Inaugural Drone Deliveries In DFW
Walgreens, one of the nation’s oldest and well-known pharmacy chains, has had an astounding last few years. In addition to providing numerous retail services to communities during the Covid-19 pandemi...
Aergility To Unveil Hybrid VTOL Cargo Drone
Rendering of ATLIS hybrid vertical takeoff and landing cargo drone. Aergility What’s shaping up to be a dogfight for a place in the burgeoning unmanned aircraft delivery industry is about to see...
Crash Raises Doubts For Amazon’s $2 Billion Drone Program
It was not so long ago that package delivery drones, specifically ones from Amazon AMZN .com, seemed poised to take flight as soon as the right regulatory bodies signed off. At present, however, the c...
Ukraine’s Bayraktar Drone Helped Take Out Russian Flagship
Russian media has confirmed that the cruiser Moskva, its 12,000-ton Black Sea flagship, suffered a major explosion and has been abandoned due to fire. Ukraine claims to have struck the ship with two N...
Ukraine May Get U.S. MQ-9 Reaper Strike Drones
An MQ-9 Reaper flies by August 8, 2007 at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada. (Photo by … [+] Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Getty Images Ukraine is in talks to purchase American-made h...
Amazon Drone Crashes Hit Jeff Bezos’ Delivery Dreams
(Bloomberg) — Jeff Bezos went on 60 Minutes in 2013 and pledged to fill the skies with a fleet of delivery drones that could zip parcels to customers’ homes in 30 minutes. Asked when this future...
Russia Just Lost A Killer Drone Over Ukraine. It Can’t Afford To Lose Many More.
An Orion drone with a Kornet missile. Russian defense ministry capture Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB-2 drones firing tiny guided missiles have wreaked havoc on Russian forces in Ukraine. The Ukrainians aren’...
New Weapons From U.S. Could Rearm Ukraine’s Bayraktar Drones
The top item in the Pentagon’s latest assistance package to Ukraine announced last week is “laser-guided rocket systems.” This might seem like a curious description, as by convention any rocket with g...
Russia Has Shot Down A Second TB-2. It’s Too Little, Too Late To Stop Ukraine’s Killer Drones.
A TB-2. Ukrainian navy photo As the war in Ukraine enters its sixth week, Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB-2 drones still are in action. We know that because the Russians recently shot down one of the 1,400-pou...
A Drone With A Small Bizjet Engine Might Simulate 5th Generation Fighters For Cheap
The “Fury” aggressor drone that Blue Force Technologies hopes to build, flight test and sell to the … [+] Air force and others could provide cheap, numerically dense 5th generation t...
Terra Drone Wins Major New Investments To Develop Air Traffic Control System For Unmanned Aircraft, Expansion
Japanese drone and air mobility technology company Terra Drone Corp. is working to develop an air … [+] traffic control system for unmanned aircraft. Terra Drone Corp. Before the middle of this ...
Here’s What We Know About Them
The U.S. is providing 100 Switchblade loitering munitions to Ukraine, the Biden administration revealed Wednesday, in addition to the thousands of Javelin anti-tank missiles and Stinger anti-aircraft ...
Russian Military Awards Reveal Covert Drone Tactics
The Russian military has had few successes to celebrate in what they term their ‘special military operation,’ otherwise known as the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. But they have been hand...
This Report Could Unleash The Potential Of Commercial Drones
This picture taken on October 11, 2021 in the Israeli coastal city of Herzliya shows unmanned aerial … [+] vehicles (UAV, or drones) carrying fast food deliveries during a press presentation as ...
What Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Could Mean For Turkey’s Drone Program
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could negatively impact the future of Turkey’s drone program. After all, Ankara and Kyiv have grand plans to expand bilateral cooperation to build drones toget...
Ukrainian Drone Strike Videos Are Extremely Bad News For Russia
Like many commentators I was surprised (and heartened) to see a video of a drone strike carried out by Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 drones against a Russian supply convoy. Unlike some such videos this one ...
FAA Busted Multiple Drone Flyers. Here Are The Expensive Results.
If you received a drone for Christmas, you should be careful in how you fly your drone because there are laws on what you can and cannot do with a drone. There are also restrictions on where you canno...
Drone Stocks To Buy And Watch As Military, Commercial Firms Invest In Technology
Drone stocks are on the rise as the military invests in new drone platforms and the FAA establishes rules for commercial drones, opening up the possibility of drone delivery services. X As of Janurary...
Hivemind Capital launches drone racing P2E project on Algorand
Former Citibank executive Matt Zhang launched Hivemind Capital, a $1.5 billion fund, to support the Algorand (ALGO/USD) ecosystem. Zhang and the fund will invest some of that money in a play-to-earn m...
Drone Racing League Partners with Hivemind’s Playground Labs, Launch First P2E Game on Algorand Blockchain
Professional drone racing League (DRL) joins the Metaverse world by launching its first game. A money-making crypto sports game on the Algorand blockchain in partnership with Playground Labs, a Web 3 ...