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• Russia-Ukraine Drone War Enters New Phase

  Russia is striding ahead with its wielding of fiber-optic drones, the head of Ukraine's drone programs told high-ranking Ukrainian officials at the start of the year...

• Battlefield Drones and the Accelerating Autonomous Arms Race in Ukraine

  With Russia determined to fight until Ukraine is conquered, and Ukraine resolute in defending its freedom, the technological arms race in this war continues to accelerate....

• Russian Schoolchildren Are Learning to Fight the Next Drone War

  Russian schoolchildren are learning to build and fly drones, in response to a decree issued by Putin in 2023: “I fully support the proposals made by our companies so that chil...

• ‘It Is Impossible to Outrun Them’: How Drones Transformed War in Ukraine

  Denys, a soldier with Ukraine’s Khyzhak brigade, describes a new kind of war. Standing in a barracks workshop with piles of basic Ukrainian First Person View (FPV) drones behi...

• 2024: A Year Marked by the Rise of Drone Warfare

  With its distinctive, pulsating, motorbike-like sound, the V1 flying bomb — or "buzz bomb" — was one the most fear-inducing weapons of World War II....

• The Mysterious New Jersey Drone Drama Has Kickstarted a Long-Overdue Discussion

  A recent wave of mysterious drone sightings across the US has, to a certain extent, kick-started a long-overdue discussion on drone technology and airspace management....

• High-Tech Radar Used in Ukraine-Russia War to Be Deployed to Crack Northeast Drone Mystery

  State-of-the-art drone-hunting technology being used on the battlefield in Ukraine could soon be deployed to crack the mystery behind a spate of unmanned flying objects purpor...

• ‘I Don’t Buy It’: Americans Want Answers on Possible Drone Sightings

  A police officer looking off the coast of New Jersey late in the evening of 8 December witnessed a scene so striking that she called emergency services....

• Mysterious Drones Raise Oversight Questions. What Can Be Done?

  Last month, drones flying over two military installations on the East Coast prompted “thousands” of phone calls to report them, raising the latest in a series of questions tha...

• There Is Still Much To Know About Drone Sightings on the East Coast

  NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Stacie Pettyjohn of the Center for a New American Security, about why the federal government hasn't provided more details about drones spotted ove...

• Defense Expert Weighs In on Mysterious Drone Sightings

  Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at the think tank Center for a New American Security, discusses the drone sightings, which some officials are calling "a slig...

• Top Marine Says Combat Experience Gives U.S. the Edge Over China’s Military

  War is an inherently uncontrolled environment. Managing that chaos requires experienced leaders, from the small-unit level to the most senior ranks. Combat experience can reve...

• China Is Cutting Off Drone Supplies Critical to Ukraine War Effort

  China’s escalating conflict with the US over trade is now extending to the drones that have become a vital part of Ukraine’s defense. Manufacturers in China recently began lim...

• In an F-35 Funding Fight, Musk Will Need to Win Over a Skeptical Congress and Trump

  Just weeks after President-elect Donald Trump tasked Elon Musk with cutting government spending, the SpaceX CEO criticized the Pentagon's most expensive weapons program: the F...

• Elon Musk Says Human-Piloted Fighter Jets like the F-35 Are Obsolete. Drone Tech Can’t Yet Fill the Gap.

  Drones are changing war in ways we never thought possible, but are we to the point where uncrewed systems can replace top-dollar weapons like the F-35 stealth fighter? Promine...

• Russian Forces Test Flying Flamethrower to Target Ukrainian Firedrones

  Russian troops claim to have developed a flamethrower drone designed to counter Ukrainian first-person-view drones carrying an incendiary burning mixture, a tactic experts say...

• Pentagon to Disclose More Drones in Secretive China Program

  The Pentagon, seeking to balance deterrence of China’s Pacific ambitions, industrial base concerns, and secrecy, plans to reveal as soon as this week more details about its “R...

• As Middle East Crisis Grinds On, Pentagon Shows Signs of Strain

  The open-ended crisis in the Middle East has begun to squeeze the Pentagon, fueling unease over the U.S. military’s ability to balance imminent threats to American interests t...

• American Drone Startup Notches Rare Victory in Ukraine

  Above a battlefield littered with failed American drones, California startup Shield AI notched an important victory in Ukraine. The company in August became a rare Western sup...

• Ukraine Rolls Out Dozens of AI Systems to Help Its Drones Hit Targets

  KYIV, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine is using dozens of domestically made AI-augmented systems for its drones to reach targets on the battlefield without being piloted, a senior o...