drones

Ukraine has a new plan to pay civilian volunteers up to $2,400 a month to track and shoot down Russian drone threats.The measure, which allows civilians to use their hunting guns and cars to destroy aerial targets, was approved on Wednesday by Ukrainian lawmakers, per Taras Melynchuk, a Cabinet representative…

Russia’s drone attacks are becoming increasingly complex, with enemy threats becoming harder to kill, the team leader for a Ukrainian mobile air defense unit told Business Insider. He said higher-reaching weapons are needed to beat them.Oleksiy, the deputy commander of an air defense unit with Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, said…

In the Global War on Terror, America’s MQ-9 Reaper was the most terrifying weapon. Armed with missiles and able to stay in the air for 24 hours, the Reaper — and its older cousin, the MQ-1 Predator — became the symbols of Drone Age remote-control warfare.But the skies are not…

Drones are transforming warfare, and Western militaries are now in an intensifying race to develop models capable of operating in one of the harshest environments on Earth: the Arctic.NATO countries are fast discovering the potential, as well as limits, of drones in the Arctic, where geopolitical competition is intensifying.Russia and…

The US can’t keep building and buying expensive weapons that are vulnerable to drones that are produced at a fraction of the cost, the Army secretary said.”We keep creating and purchasing these exquisite machines that very cheap drones can take out,” Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll said during an episode of…

The Marine Corps is learning to fight with uncrewed aerial systems, and there’s a lot to figure out. One Marine Corps leader said the potential for confusion on cluttered future battlefields “haunts” his dreams.”Knowing what’s good guys versus bad guys, knowing what to kill and not to kill,” that sort…

Ukrainian drone operators flying their uncrewed aircraft against the threat of Russian jamming are often unsure where their drones actually are, meaning they have to use other guideposts to find their way, an operator told Business Insider.Directional landmarks can include “weird-looking buildings” or intersections. Operators use these when they can’t…