Military Uncrewed Systems · Drones · AI
Australia unveiled a ten year defence strategy while a Saildrone caught an $81M cocaine haul across the world. Plus: France's carmakers build drones, Rolls-Royce engines a German wingman, two Israeli firms scale up, a robot boat runs errands in Hawaii. ...
Russia is now producing about 3,000 Geran-4/5 kamikaze drones a month. And: Ukraine's stealth drone reaches Ufa, Russian subs hide under netting, drone boats hunt troops, a carrier's new drone hub, an F1-built missile, and NATO's GPS-free drones. Russia...
Ukraine's new Skazhenyi interceptor hits 365 km/h, with plans to build 5,000 a month. Elsewhere: a record 6,858m drone kill, a captured Portuguese drone, a bomb at a German airport, South Korea's robot soldier, and a new Royal Navy testbed boat. ...
A Chinese UCAV's autopilot lost lock on a manoeuvring target 3 minutes before the strike, so the operator flew it by hand. Elsewhere: a Chinese robot wolf, the Pentagon's new counter-drone shop, Ukraine's drone diplomacy, and a Taiwan swarm test. Manual...
Drone strikes wiped out 8 Wildberries warehouses in July, 15.4% of its floor space, for close to $2 billion in damage. Ukraine's 500,000-a-month drone output, a record-altitude kill, Britain's sovereignty bet, Iran's fastest kamikaze drone yet. Burning...
The US, UK, Australia, China, Japan, India and a post-FCAS Europe are all building autonomous aircraft to fly alongside crewed ones. The terms get used almost interchangeably, but they're not quite the same thing, and neither is the level of autonomy on...
Russia is bolting compasses onto jammed drones and merging two drone types onto one network to dodge jamming. Also: a $50M Buk-M3 destroyed by one drone, a Tu-95 bomber hit from 800km, Navy robots reporting from the seabed, and a new Sikorsky VTOL. A...
Press release - 21 July 2026 Swiss technology startupnordfenAG has chosen Latvia as the location to develop drone simulation technologies and advance drone operator training together with the association "Drone Force - Europe". Today, the partners signed...
Ukraine's Flamingo missile runs on a $100 open source autopilot built for hobby drones. Plus: Anduril's pilotless attack copter, a drone-frying microwave weapon, a swarm-command helmet, $218k missiles by the thousand, and a bomber downed in Crimea. ...