Like so many conflicts before it, the Russo-Ukraine war has forced both sides to innovate. Since they have been able to gain ...
Britain's DragonFire laser weapon upped the ante on November 20 at the Ministry of Defence's Hebrides Range in Scotland when ...
The training showed integrating new systems such as drones is not easy. Commanders are betting the often-frustrating lessons ...
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818 ...
Defense tech startup Anduril Industries has faced numerous setbacks during testing of its autonomous weapons systems, ...
The drone war in Ukraine and the growing drone treat in the West is pushing industry and new innovation.
TRUPPENÜBUNGSPLATZ PUTLOS TRAINING GROUND, Germany— In a grassy field near the Baltic Sea, U.S. soldiers used net-shooting ...
The DragonFire system successfully shot down drones travelling at up to 650km/h at a range in Scotland, just as a £316m contract for its deployment on a ...
The world's biggest defence contractors, like Lockheed Martin and Boeing, are taking note, as are smaller drone-makers like US-based AeroVironment, which is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Its ...
Laser beams, robodogs and drone-zapping microwaves - these are the types of weapons that could be deployed on battlefields in the not too distant future. Some are already here. The threat of a wider ...
A jaw-dropping new weapon can drop swarms of attacking drones out of the sky. The Leonidas high-power microwave (HPM) system delivers weaponized electromagnetic interference to counter lethal airborne ...
Despite those defensive measures and the small explosive payload drones carry, most of the armored vehicles damaged or destroyed in Ukraine were done in by armed drones. Over 70 percent of all Russian ...