Drone
The US task force leading the military’s response to the drone threat is ready to spend billions of dollars on contracts for counter-drone technologies, betting that a mixed arsenal will be needed to contend with one of the fast-growing battlefield problems.Officials said the investment would help scale different technologies so…
Moscow is moving to expand its capacity to make tens of thousands of the killer drones it deploys in attacks on Ukrainian cities, according to plans from a Russian state company obtained by POLITICO.The expansion of state firm Rosatom’s Alabuga-Volokno factory in Russia’s Tatarstan region would allow Moscow to make…
The US Army says that its special battalion focused on drone warfare and lessons from Ukraine was always meant to be a temporary experiment, not a lasting element of the force.The Unmanned Assault Battalion was created last fall as an experimental unit in the 173rd Airborne Brigade specializing in drone…
Iran’s military said it seized an American-made underwater drone near the Strait of Hormuz. The US military said the uncrewed system had malfunctioned and was “dead in the water.”The Navy has employed uncrewed undersea and surface vessels in and around the Middle East for an expanding range of missions, including…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tamara Hancock, who lives in the greater Phoenix area — one of the first areas to have access to Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service, which is expanding to 500 US cities by the end of the year. She’s used the…
Luckily, cardboard floats.An Amazon delivery drone dropped a Texas woman’s package into her backyard pool on Monday, flummoxing the woman, who told Business Insider she didn’t think she selected the drone delivery option.”I was inside the house and I heard it,” Lindsey Austen said on Thursday. “I was like, ‘Is…
ZUOYING, TAIWAN — Taiwan’s navy deployed two medium-class strike drones on Saturday for the island’s biggest annual military exercise, and their designs resemble those of the loitering munitions giving Ukraine fresh wins against Russia this year.The pair of fixed-wing, propeller-driven drones appeared during a littoral combat drill simulating an attack…
