Military Uncrewed Systems · Drones · AI
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. ...
The US Navy struck Iran's Bandar Abbas with sea drones in its first ever combat use of the platform. And: a $400 drone kills a $19M helicopter, Moscow refinery's flying tank lid, first CCA live-fire, Storm Fighter unveiled, Helsing's $1.8bn round. Sea...
A Ukrainian FPV drone hit Russian logistics 110km out, guided by AI that keeps flying after jamming cuts the link. Elsewhere: Apache gets drone wingmen, Ukraine's robots run frontline logistics, a £1.5bn Hybrid Navy, and a £2bn AI battle lab. A Small...
Ukraine's Trinity Robotics plans to double robot output to 2,200 units. Also: Iran's downed Reapers, a UK drone warship, Anduril's NATO win, a killer robot ban, Kraken's unicorn round, GPS-denied maps, AI decision limits. Ukraine's Trinity Robotics,...
Most every story on this site uses a word that started life describing an insect with no job. Tracing how "drone" got from a beehive to a battlefield says something about how military language actually forms: less design, more nickname that stuck. The...