Military Uncrewed Systems · Drones · AI
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...
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...
Ukraine has downed more bridges this month than in the previous three years combined, using $55k drones and AI-guided mini cruise missiles. Plus: Pentagon consolidates drone oversight, London stands up a taskforce, Ukraine exports FPVs to the US. Bridges...
IISS traces 144 European drone sightings across 13 states to Russia's shadow fleet. Also: One Pentagon drone office, London's £5 billion autonomy bet, NDAA doctrine push, Ukraine's Pacific test run, CCA production start. A Paper Trail For GhostsA...
In 1951, the psychologist Paul Fitts drew a line for the US National Research Council on the division of labour between people and machines in aviation. Humans got judgement in novel situations, flexibility, inductive reasoning, the detection of faint...