Drone
Western militaries are building training around an expectation of drone crashes and losses while also trying to avoid wasting them. It’s a balance as it experiments with the new way of war surging in Ukraine. Loading audio narration… Maj. Rachel Martin, director of the US Army’s new drone lethality course,…
Western militaries are investing heavily in drone warfare after seeing their impact in Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion. And while it isn’t necessary to absorb every lesson, current and former military officials say one major operation is worth studying closely.Maj. Rachel Martin, director of the US Army’s Unmanned Advanced Lethality…
Scores of flights were forced to divert after a drone attack caused a fire near Dubai International Airport early Monday. Loading audio narration… Data from Flightradar24 showed 65 flights were diverted to 34 airports across Europe, Asia, and Africa.22 of those were so-called flights to nowhere, where passengers ended up…
Russia has been expanding a drone base near the front lines in eastern Ukraine, adding more launch positions and storage facilities, according to new satellite imagery reviewed by Business Insider. The base is only months old, and it’s growing. Loading audio narration… The imagery, which was captured on Wednesday by…
Newly captured satellite imagery shows destruction and damage to infrastructure at military installations across Iran after waves of US and Israeli airstrikes.The images, collected on Sunday by the US spatial intelligence firm Vantor and obtained by Business Insider, show that a wide range of targets have been struck since Saturday,…
A crewed US Air Force fighter and an uncrewed jet-powered aircraft flew together recently, communicating and showing how autonomous drones might fight in a future air war alongside human pilots.US defense firm General Atomics, a competitor in the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Program aimed at developing and fielding loyal wingman-type…
US Army drone school leaders said quickly changing battlefields mean the kind of companies the Army wants to work with are the ones making plug-and-play gear that’s easily upgraded.The Army is training soldiers for rapidly changing drone warfare. Leaders say keeping pace — and gaining an edge — requires weapons…
Ukrainian soldiers are out cutting and snapping any fiber-optic drone cables they come across, regardless of which side they belong to. They use scissors, knives, even their bare hands.Troops say it doesn’t matter if a drone is Ukrainian or Russian. If they’re not sure, they just assume it’s hostile.These unjammable…
Ukraine’s large-scale drone war is pushing Western militaries to treat small drones less as high-end equipment and more as expendable ammunition that isn’t meant to come back.US Army and British Army officials, as well as a NATO veteran who volunteered to fight in Ukraine, told Business Insider that effective drone…
Russian troops are experimenting with a contraption that spins steel cables to protect vehicles from small loitering munitions.The device was seen on the “War Correspondents” program of the Russian state TV channel Smotrim, which reported on Sunday that the gadget was built by mechanics from the 70th Motor Rifle Regiment…
