Russia, Ukraine and drones
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December saw a new record number of Ukrainian long-range drones shot down by Russian forces, according to statistics published by the Russian Defense Ministry.
Delivery drones are so fast that they can zip a pint of ice cream to a customer’s driveway before it melts. Yet the long-promised technology has been slow to take off in the United States. More than six years after the Federal Aviation Administration ...
For a few years now, and particularly since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, conventional wisdom has said that the future of warfare is swarms of cheap drones with explosives strapped to them. But now, over on War on the Rocks, a veteran ...
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it has withdrawn a plan to impose restrictions on Chinese drones to address national security concerns after an earlier crackdown on passenger cars and trucks.
Drones, sometimes called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), are having a transformational moment. While drones have existed since the early 20th century (originally designed for military missions too dangerous for humans ...
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — “America’s First Corps” was the first to get its hands on a new multipurpose drone system the Army has fast-tracked to deploy with all Army divisions by the end of 2026. Teams of soldiers in late August double ...
Drones descended on four Danish airports on Wednesday – including two that house military bases – in what authorities called a “hybrid attack” meant to sow fear and division. The unnerving aerial intrusions all happened around the same time and ...
As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous killing machines.
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818. “War is chaos. It always has been. But technology makes it worse. It changes the fear.” Pierce Brown ...
If a DJI drone was on your list to buy going into 2026, you might want to act quickly. The Federal Communications Commission has implemented an anticipated ban on the import of foreign-made drones, including those manufactured by DJI, the world's leading ...
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