The Middle East’s three premier drone powers — Iran, Israel, and Turkey — have developed a variety of naval and ship-launched drones in recent years that are worth evaluating. Iran Unlike their Israel...
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Why Iran Arming Russia With Drones For Ukraine War Is Utterly Cynical
Iran’s decision to supply large quantities of armed drones to Russia amidst Moscow’s ongoing war against Ukraine makes Iran an accomplice and enabler of wanton Russian aggression. The fact that Iran w...
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...
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...
Construction Has A $3 Trillion Waste Problem. Can Drones — And Digital Twin Tech — Solve It?
Everyone who has done a kitchen renovation knows that construction is hard. It’s slow, progress is painful, getting all the trades to come at the right time is like getting the stars to align, and the...
Ukraine’s Drones Are Back—And Blowing Up Russian Artillery In The South
A Ukrainian TB-2. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Ukraine’s Turkish-made drones are blowing up Russian equipment in southern Ukraine, helping to clear a path for Ukrainian battalions as they fight their w...
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...
Grenade Through The Sunroof? Disruption For Aerospace And Aviation From Ukraine
Gaining experience in aerospace is difficult. New aircraft typically require years of experimental and operational testing — even small aircraft can take upwards of 10 years to move through the aircra...
eVTOLs Face Significant Challenges In Passenger Applications
Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing vehicles (eVTOLs) promise to transform short trips especially … [+] in bigger cities. But their future is far from certain. getty Electric vertical take of...
Ukrainian Drones Are Carpet-Bombing The Russians
A Ukrainian drone bombs a Russian BTR-82. Via social media Look out down below! Ukraine’s tiny, terrifying DIY drones are carpet-bombing Russian forces. Videos that have appeared online in recent week...
Blasts Rock Russian Bases All Around Ukraine As Kyiv Strikes With Rockets And Drones
An ammunition dump explodes in Belgorod Oblast on Aug. 18, 2022. Via social media Explosions erupted across Russia and Russian-occupied Ukraine on Thursday night as Ukrainian forces escalated their we...
Speculation Iran Will Swap Drones For Russian Su-35 Fighters
The latest speculation about the future of Russia-Iran defense relations is that Tehran might procure Russian Su-35 Flanker fighter jets in return for supplying Moscow with various types of its indige...
Airspace To Be Coordinated Delivery Drones Don’t Crash
Cranfield analysts are essential for this venture Hybrid airspace is predicted to be in place from 2024 Gokhan Inalhan is the Professor of Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence Blockchain is ...
Blockchain Will Coordinate Airspace so Delivery Drones Don’t Crash
Blockchain and drones: How will we control the new highways of the skies above us as small aircraft fill the the space above our cities? Blockchain is a new industry. And yet, there are systems being ...
Blockchain Will Co-Ordinate Airspace so Delivery Drones Don’t Crash
Blockchain and drones: How will we control the new highways of the skies above us as small aircraft fill the the space above our cities? Blockchain is a new industry. And yet, there are systems being ...
Here’s How Russia Might Use Iranian Drones In Ukraine
With speculation rife that Russia will soon acquire “hundreds” of armed and unarmed drones from Iran, the inevitable question of how Moscow plans to use them in its grinding war in Ukraine arises. Whe...
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...
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...
How Ukraine Won The Battle
LVIV, UKRAINE – MAY 09: Limited edition “Snake Island” stamps, commemorating the moment when a … [+] Ukrainian soldier defiantly replied “Russian warship, go f*ck yoursel...
The Ukrainian Military Is Changing Its Tactics With The Bayraktar TB2 Drones
During the first four months of the Russia-Ukraine war, the “Most Valuable Player” award could readily go to the Bayraktar TB2 drone. This drone provided the Ukrainians with the necessary air power to...
How Robotics In The Entertainment Industry Could Intertwine With Other Sectors For Growth
BARCELONA, SPAIN – MAY 09: The Terminator robot is seen in the paddock following qualifying for the … [+] Spanish Formula One Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya on May 9, 2009 in Barce...
Ukraine Isn’t Just Getting American-Made Killer Drones. It’s Getting A Whole System For Remote Warfare.
An MQ-1C with Hellfire missiles. U.S. Army photo The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden plans to offer to Ukraine the General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle, the U.S. Army’s best unmanned aerial veh...
Ukraine May Get U.S. Attack Drones That Can Strike Moscow
A U.S. Air Force MQ-1C Gray Eagle drone at the Seoul International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition … [+] (ADEX) at Seoul Airport in Seongnam, South Korea, on Oct. 18, 2021. SeongJoon Cho/Bloo...
U.S. Reportedly Aiming To Sell Ukraine Faster And More Powerful Armed Drones
Topline The Biden Administration plans to sell four MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones to Ukraine, Reuters reported Wednesday, potentially giving Ukraine access to much larger, more sophisticated and more heavil...
Ukraine Band Sells Trophy To Crypto Exchange To Buy Drones For Home Country
A band from Ukraine – after winning the Eurovision Song Contest earlier this month – decided they would feel more triumphant by selling their trophy in order to help their native country fight the Rus...
Iranian, Turkish, And Israeli Drones Will Be Built In Other Countries
Iran’s inauguration of a factory to build military drones in Tajikistan on May 17 is the latest example of the Middle East’s leading drone manufacturers expanding the production and proliferation of t...
Russian TV Shows Off Rare 2S4 Mega Mortar-Then Ukraine Blows It Up
A Russian 2S4 self-propelled mortar explodes near a building in southern Rubizhne, Luhansk Oblast, … [+] as recorded by a Ukrainian military drone. Video capture. As Russian troops attempt to br...
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...
The Russian Navy Keeps Exposing Its Vulnerable Support Ships To Ukrainian Attack
The Russian rescue ship ‘Vsevolod Bobrov.’ Russian navy photo When a Ukrainian navy anti-ship battery put two Neptune anti-ship missiles into the side of the Russian navy cruiser Moskva on...