Military Uncrewed Systems · Drones · AI
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 Ghosts A...
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...
Ukraine floats a stratosphere missile that defeats Russian jamming by cutting its own navigation off. Also: Britain ditches its destroyers for drone-coordinating warships, a US company cleared a fortified breach with 35 drones and 100 pounds of C4, AI is...
Ukraine's top drone analyst says AI autonomous targeting is weeks away for Shaheds. Also: Kyiv's e-Points system is steering units toward harder targets 100 km from the front, a hand-launched recon drone reaches 150 km for a fraction of the usual cost, an...
General Sir Roly Walker states half of the British Army's entire capital budget will go to consumables and uncrewed systems by 2030, and every soldier must be able to operate a drone. Defence Secretary Jarvis followed with a formal commitment to uncrewed...
Anthropic's Claude programs a robodog 20 times faster than its fastest human team; six companies build an autonomous drone-killing ground robot in 28 hours at the US Army's Operation Jailbreak. Also: Ukraine opens its combat AI data to 100 firms, Germany...
The US Air Force awards production contracts for 1,000 autonomous combat jets, four months ahead of schedule, and opens a six-vendor competition to write their brains. Also: 43 FPVs collapse a road bridge, a European C2 startup raises €32 million at...