helicopters
Given the sheer volume of enemy drones, helicopters have joined the counter-drone fight. In Ukraine and Israel, helicopters of all kinds are hunting down drones.Helicopter cannons are much cheaper than jets armed with missiles, but they’re no substitute. It’s not just fighter jets and ground-based air defenses that are in…
Britain’s defense ministry is building a massive experimental facility to better understand how it can protect military aircraft against GPS jamming and other threats as the war in Ukraine shows the danger of electronic warfare.The new defense testing facility — expected to be one of the largest in Europe and…
The defense tech startup Anduril is making some of the most futuristic autonomous weapons on the market as it tries to reinvent the military’s wheelhouse.But the company’s forward-thinking vision hasn’t stopped founder Palmer Luckey from amassing his own collection of older military-grade vehicles and boy’s toys.The billionaire’s collection includes a…
Two helicopters in Malaysia crashed into each other in midair during a parade rehearsal on Tuesday.Footage posted by local media showed the rotors of one of the choppers striking the other vehicle.Local authorities said 10 people, all naval staff, died in the crash. At least 10 people have died after…
Houthi attack drones have mostly been intercepted by US and allied warships in the Red Sea.Air-to-air combat has been much less common, but last month, a French helicopter shot down a drone.A former US naval aviator said the engagement is not necessarily surprising. The Houthis have launched a lot of…
Russia has been painting fake fighter jets on the ground at many of its airbases, a relatively simple tactic apparently meant to trick Ukraine into targeting the decoys instead of the real deal.But Moscow also has a strange habit of landing its helicopters right on top of these decoy silhouettes,…
