Drones turned battlefields into networks of cheap flying sensors and precision weapons, forcing armies to rethink everything from armor to air defense. Now two emerging systems, high-energy lasers and ...

Like so many conflicts before it, the Russo-Ukraine war has forced both sides to innovate. Since they have been able to gain control of opposition air space, neither side has made wide use of ...

New drones will pair up with Apache attack helicopters, pivoting to a new way of war and delivering on the Strategic Defence Review. Industry partnering with Defence to shape future of autonomous ...

A Ukrainian arms maker says future warfare is one soldier controlling drone swarms with autonomy. It's tech Ukraine and some partners are working on because it gives a single soldier greater impact.

In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia Macdonald argue, based on their research interviewing U.S. ground troops, that troops prefer close air support from inhabited ...

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818. “War is chaos. It always has been. But technology makes it ...

November 15, 2025: Ukrainian drone proliferation began when many individual Ukrainians, or small teams of civilians, designed and built drones. The drones served as potential candidates for widespread ...

December 28, 2025: While Russia was an early user of Iranian Shaheed drones against Ukraine, the Ukrainians developed more drone innovations and out-produced the Russians, until now. After more than a ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The war in Ukraine has made one thing unmistakably clear: drones are no longer a support weapon on the battlefield. They are central to ...

Silicon Valley disruptors and defense industry heavyweights are locked in a fight to shape the future of drone warfare. The competition pits agile startups like Performance Drone Works and Anduril ...

Until they secure relevant technical capabilities to weaponize drones either by external knowledge transfer or internal learning, they may engage in strategic patience. The use of commercially ...