The use of drones and their newfound capabilities have left the military scrambling to exceed those advancements with defense ...

These drones, generally smaller, operated via remote control and sent up in the air by propellers, can carry a payload that can range from sensors to cameras to communications devices; or, in the ...

A prominent group 1 UAV in the U.S. arsenal is the RQ-11 Raven family. The Raven may have many of the characteristics of a remote control airplane one might fly as a hobby, being launched by hand ...

TAMPA—Tomorrow’s missions may take U.S. special operators into places where they’d rather not control drones by hand, so the maker of the popular Black Hornet nano-drone has added a way to ...

Details of a new UAV actively used by Russia on various front lines, including a 3D model and component breakdown, have been ...

Traditionally, attack drones have generally emphasized speed, flying quickly at targets like truck convoys to attack—generally moving predictably enough for the AI to easily target.

As it stands, America's military bases and critical infrastructure are extremely susceptible to drones. In 2024 alone, the U.S. detected 350 drone incursions across 100 military bases.

Groups of tiny nano-drone helicopters, known as “Black Hornets,” are buzzing the skies in Ukraine thanks to a round of U.S. defense funding for Kyiv over the summer and a pledge from Norway to ...

Earlier this year, the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade launched its own drone lab at Caserma Del Din, Italy, to build first-person viewer or FPV drones.

In recent years, drones swarmed the site of a planned military exercise, forcing U.S. Northern Command, responsible for protecting the homeland from attack, to delay the exercise, one official said.

A series of drone sightings over military bases across the country have renewed concerns that the US doesn’t have clear government-wide policy for how to deal with unauthorized incursions that ...

In other words, troops can treat small drones as munitions instead of aircraft, and that will allow the U.S. military to buy many more of them, said Caitlin Lee, of the RAND Corporation.