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At a recent exercise at Fort Polk, Louisiana, a US Army company commander used attack drones and ground robots to destroy enemy positions, clearing the way for soldiers.The drones and robots did the difficult and dangerous work that a rifle company might otherwise have had to do, showing the role…
At a GNC warehouse in Whitestown, Indiana, workers see and hear four drones overhead every day as they complete tasks that few humans want to do: count and track full boxes of products across more than 2,000 pallets in the warehouse’s aisles.The drones’ regular flights allow GNC, a nutritional manufacturing…
Ukrainian forces are relentlessly targeting Russian supply lines, both overland routes and bridges, around occupied Crimea with drones. Russian forces are, in turn, throwing up smoke screens to shield a key bridge from attack, new satellite images provided by commercial satellite imagery company Vantor show.Along the front lines, Ukraine has…
The West’s long-standing approach to air defense — relying heavily on advanced jets, expensive missiles, and the ability to shoot down just about whatever comes its way — is being strained by a new era of cheap drones and mass air attacks, a top NATO commander warned.New air threats able…
Ukraine is repurposing reconnaissance and attack drones to move supplies to the front lines because sending soldiers on these missions has become increasingly deadly.Bringing supplies like water and ammunition to soldiers near the front lines is critical for militaries to stay in the fight. But those routes are now so…
Ukrainian drones penetrated three layers of air defenses deployed to protect Moscow and attacked a major Russian oil facility, Kyiv said on Thursday, marking its latest deep-strike operation.The massive Ukrainian attack targeted the Moscow Oil Refinery, one of Russia’s largest, for the second time in just a few days, and…
UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, Ukraine — The heavy bomber drone rose from the ground in a blast of dust and debris, its propellers whirring over the empty training range.The drone, called “Max,” was initially designed for a brutal battlefield task: hovering over Russian positions and dropping explosives. It can carry more than…
To Spring, some of the new drones blunting Russia’s momentum first arrived so glitchy they were practically cursed.”In every sortie, everything that could go wrong went wrong,” the drone pilot, with the Ukrainian National Guard’s Typhoon unit, told Business Insider of the first system she tested in early 2025.The fixed-wing…
Ukraine is using a new kind of drone to turn areas that Russian forces once considered safe into a new “kill zone,” disrupting supplies, threatening its command posts, and making Moscow’s war harder to sustain.Drones have been central to Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion. Short-range first-person-view (FPV) drones surveil and…
RIGA, Latvia — Warfighting drones have become so cheap that Russia has shifted from not wanting to waste one on a lone Ukrainian soldier to sending over a dozen after just one person, a Ukrainian defense official said this week.At the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, its forces “never attacked…
