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The US Army is shutting its drone unit as NORAD warns bases are ill-equipped for attacks. Also: Ukrainian drones wrecked a US armor brigade in wargames, blinded an S-400 in a $170M hunt, a 2,000km Ukrainian UAV, and Turkey's drone-carrying wingman. The...
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...
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...
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,...