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The U.S. Army’s Drone Nightmare Has Arrived

Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Army, having “fallen massively behind” in the low-cost, high-volume drone warfare perfected ...
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The U.S. Army’s Drone Nightmare Is Coming True

Ukraine’s war made drones the centerpiece of modern combat, shifting battlefields toward WWI-style positional fights as cheap ...
In recent years, AeroVironment’s Switchblade loitering munition has become a critical weapon in Ukraine and played a growing role in multiple nations’ arsenals. Now, AeroVironment is preparing to ...
The Army sees Freedom Eagle-1 as providing an important new layer of lower-cost air defense, especially against long-range ...
A passenger train is seen damaged following Russia's drone attack on a railway station in Shostka, Sumy region, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Kordon Media) A passenger train is seen ...
Multicopter FPV drones look like the kings of the jungle in Ukraine, hitting tanks, trucks, artillery and infantry with lethal results. But fixed wing FPVs resembling small aircraft are having an ...
Australia has the chance to become a world leader in drone and autonomous weapon technology if it supercharges investment in ...
In the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, small drones routinely target ordinary people by dropping hand grenades, and ...
A Switchblade 600 made by AeroVironment launches from a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drone earlier this year in an experimental test flight. (AeroVironment) In recent years, AeroVironment’s Switchblade ...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When Russian drones smashed into the Shostka train station in northeastern Ukraine earlier this month, they killed a 71-year-old man, injured at least eight people and left train ...