Drones (Page 5)

Updated on May 19, 2025

Russia has followed Ukraine’s lead in adapting the propeller-driven Yak-52 primary training aircraft as an ad-hoc drone-killer. The Yak-52B2 includes a sensor turret to help detect long-range one-way attack drones and has a shotgun mounted under the wing for shooting them down. While it appears that Ukrainian Yak-52s have had some success in the counter-drone role, the appearance of the Yak-52B2 provides more evidence of the pressure that Ukrainian drone strikes are placing on Russia’s traditional air defenses.

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Russia Testing Shotgun-Armed Yak-52 Trainer Aircraft To Down Ukrainian Drones

Posted on May 19, 2025

Ukrainian officials were in Washington this week to hammer out details of a potential $50 billion drone deal.

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Our Best Look Yet At Ukraine’s AIM-9 Sidewinder-Toting Magura-7 Drone Boat

Posted on May 15, 2025

The future of the Navy NGAD crewed aircraft program remains in limbo.

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Fate Of Navy’s F/A-XX Future Fighter Is In Limbo (Updated)

Posted on May 14, 2025

F-47 has a range of 1,000+ nautical miles.

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F-47 Now Has An Officially Stated Combat Radius Of 1,000+ Nautical Miles

Posted on May 14, 2025

Russia is taking a page out of Ukraine's play book and creating Naval drone regiments

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Ukraine Situation Report: Russian Navy Creating New Drone Regiments In Wake Of Enemy Successes

Posted on May 13, 2025

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Air-Launched ‘Fighter Drone’ Collaborative Combat Aircraft Being Eyed By Air Force

Updated on May 13, 2025

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USAF Wants Collaborative Aircraft Fleet To Stress Parts Commonality For Forward Operations

Posted on May 9, 2025

Two new drone designs, Apollo and Athena, are in development at Kratos with a particular focus on collaborative operations with other crewed and uncrewed aircraft, and an eye toward sales in Europe.

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Two Secretive Loyal Wingman Drones Aimed At European Market In Development From Kratos

Updated on May 9, 2025

AV introduced its new Kraken3 uncrewed surface vessel at the SOF Week conference in Tampa

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New Drone Boat Unveiled At Special Operations Conference In Afterglow Of Ukrainian Success

Posted on May 9, 2025

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Israeli-Made Harop Attack Drones Launched By India By The Dozens, Pakistan Claims

Updated on May 8, 2025

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We Talk About The U.S. Army’s New Black Widow Short-Range Recon Drone With Red Cat

By Jamie Hunter, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on May 8, 2025

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Stealthy Special Operations Speedboats Are Getting Kamikaze Drone Launchers

Updated on May 7, 2025

AeroVironment has rolled out a new long-range loitering one-way attack drone called Red Dragon that the company designed to operate with very "limited user interaction."

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Red Dragon Highly-Autonomous One-Way Attack Drone Unveiled

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman

Posted on May 6, 2025

Raytheon has begun test flights of its compact PhantomStrike radar, which features an active electronically scanned array (AESA) and gallium nitride (GaN) technology. Most significantly, the manufacturer claims that PhantomStrike — which has already been ordered by Poland — brings all the benefits of an AESA antenna at a much lower price point than other radars in its class.

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PhantomStrike Low-Cost Lightweight AESA Radar Flies For First Time

Posted on May 6, 2025

XQ-58 rocket launch from its rail launcher system.

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Kratos Close To “A Couple” Final Versions Of XQ-58 Valkyrie For The Marines

Posted on May 5, 2025

Small missile for CCA and fighter aircraft sought by USAF.

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Air Force Looking For Cheap Air-To-Air Missile Half The Size Of AMRAAM

Posted on May 5, 2025

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AIM-9 Sidewinder-Armed Ukrainian Drone Boat: What We Know

Posted on May 5, 2025

Procurement of the MQ-1C Gray Eagle for the U.S. Army may end, with the drone being among the platforms that the service could lose under a wide-ranging force-structure overhaul. The development comes as the drone’s manufacturer continues to develop modernized versions of the Gray Eagle, as well as add new equipment and capabilities.

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Stop Buying MQ-1C Gray Eagle Drones Army’s Top Leadership Decrees

Posted on May 2, 2025

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Marine AH-1Z Attack Helicopter’s Mystery Missiles Identified

Posted on May 1, 2025

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Making Sure Wingman Drones Don’t Hit Their Crewed Companions Still A Challenge Marines Say

Posted on Apr 30, 2025

Lumberjack strike munition from Northrop Grumman

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Lumberjack Jet-Powered One-Way Attack Munition Can Drop Its Own Precision Bomblets (Updated)

Updated on Apr 30, 2025

The U.S. Marine Corps has received an Expeditionary Directed Energy Counter-Swarm (ExDECS) weapon in order to facilitate experimentation with the use of high-power microwave (HPM) technology in the increasingly volatile low altitude air defense (LAAD) role. This kind of counter-drone system is increasingly seen as a critical layer in force protection and urgently needed to enhance current and future ground-based air defense (GBAD) capabilities.

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Marines Get Their First High Power Microwave Weapon For Taking On Drone Swarms

Posted on Apr 29, 2025

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Air Force’s Next Batch Of Collaborative Combat Drones Could Be Less ‘Exquisite,’ Cheaper

Posted on Apr 24, 2025

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New Views Of China’s Next Generation Fighters

Posted on Apr 24, 2025

What actually are the Houthis' air defense capabilities? That's a clear question with at best a murky answer, but here is what we know.

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What Air Defenses Do The Houthis In Yemen Actually Have?

Posted on Apr 23, 2025

The MQ-1C Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) addresses the need for a long-endurance, armed (up to four HELLFIRE missiles), UAS that offers greater range, altitude, and payload flexibility.

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MQ-1C Gray Eagle Is Shooting Down Drones With Hellfire Missiles In Tests

Posted on Apr 18, 2025

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British High-Power Microwave Weapon Successfully Tested Against Drone Swarms

Posted on Apr 17, 2025

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XQ-58 Valkyrie With Built-In Landing Gear Shown In New Rendering

Updated on Apr 16, 2025

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FAA Testing Drone Detection Systems In New Jersey

Updated on Apr 16, 2025

An unknown weapon seen being fired from a U.S. Bradley Fighting Vehicle's BGM-71 TOW anti-tank guided missile launcher at a major test event earlier this year has now been identified.

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Mysterious Weapon Fired From M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Identified

Posted on Apr 14, 2025

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Defiant Drone Ship Gets Closer To Months-Long DARPA At Sea Demonstration

Updated on Apr 11, 2025

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Every Marine A Drone Pilot: Individual Lethality To Go From Meters To Kilometers

Posted on Apr 9, 2025

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MQ-35 V-BAT’s Capabilities Grow, Micro Guided Munitions Coming Next Year

Posted on Apr 8, 2025

Ongoing work on the U.S. Army's Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) tiltrotor is helping the U.S. Navy refine its next-generation Future Vertical Lift-Maritime Strike (FVL-MS) plans.

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Navy MH-60 Seahawk Replacement Will Leverage Army’s Future Vertical Lift Tiltrotor Plans

Posted on Apr 8, 2025

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Navy Won’t Scramble To Field Loyal Wingman Drones Like The Air Force

Updated on Apr 8, 2025

The U.S. Navy expects its future F/A-XX sixth-generation stealth fighters to offer just a 25 percent increase in range over the existing tactical combat jets in its carrier air wings.

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F/A-XX Will Have Just 25% More Range Than Existing Navy Fighters

Posted on Apr 7, 2025

MQ-25 has a lot of potential beyond it's core tanker mission.

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MQ-25 Stingray’s Extreme Range Gives It Massive Potential Far Beyond A Tanker

Updated on Apr 7, 2025

Anduril has rolled out a new family of modular torpedo-like uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUV) called Copperhead.

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Copperhead Torpedo-Like Underwater Kamikaze Drones Rolled Out By Anduril

Posted on Apr 7, 2025

Ukraine is testing uncrewed ground vehicles (UGV) with fiber optic cables.

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Unmanned Ground Vehicles Controlled Via Fiber Optic Cables Being Tested By Ukraine

Posted on Apr 4, 2025

A U.S. Army unit used a combination of radio frequency emitters pumping out false signals and inflatable decoy artillery pieces to lure their opponents into attacking and revealing their positions in an exercise earlier this year.

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Inflatable Decoys Paired With Faked Radio Signals Used To Bait Artillery In Recent Army Exercise

Posted on Apr 3, 2025

Officials in the Russian border city of Shebekino have installed netting on buildings to protect against Ukrainian drone attacks.

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Anti-Drone Nets Now Being Used To Protect Buildings In Russia

Posted on Apr 3, 2025

U.S. Soldiers from the 716th Military Police Company, 89th Military Police Brigade, assigned to Joint Task Force - Southern Border, patrol along the southern border near San Diego, California, on March 23, 2025. On March 20, 2025, the Secretary of Defense authorized enhanced detection and monitoring support to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), enabling service members to conduct patrolling on foot or using military tactical vehicles to report suspected illegal activity to CBP. Under the direction of U.S. Northern Command, JTF-SB aligns efforts to seal the southern border and repel illegal activity and is responsible for full-scale, agile, and multi-domain operations. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Malik Waddy-Fiffee)

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OK To Shoot Down Cartel Drones Flying Over Border Sought By NORTHCOM Boss

Posted on Apr 2, 2025

Roadrunner and coyote deployed on US Destroyer

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Coyote, Roadrunner Loitering Drone Interceptors To Arm U.S. Navy Destroyers

Posted on Mar 28, 2025

The U.S. Army has formally given the designation ME-11B to its forthcoming High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) intelligence-gathering aircraft.

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ME-11B Official Designation Of Army’s New Intelligence Gathering Business Jets

Posted on Mar 27, 2025

Airbus has unveiled LOAD, a new anti-drone drone concept — an adapted target drone that will be armed with air-to-air guided missiles, expressly designed to shoot down other uncrewed aerial vehicles. In recent years we’ve seen a proliferation of single-use drones with explosive warheads that are designed to bring down other uncrewed aerial vehicles. However, a reusable anti-drone drone, armed with its own missiles, appears to be something of a novelty.

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Micro Missile-Slinging Drone-Killing Drone Concept Revealed By Airbus

Updated on Mar 26, 2025

The U.S. Air Force's selection of Boeing's F-47 as the winner of its Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) combat jet competition raises new questions about plans for new stealthy aerial refueling tankers.

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F-47 Fighter Reveal Draws New Attention To USAF Stealth Tanker Plans

Posted on Mar 24, 2025

Ammo dump destroyed in Russia at Engles Air Base.

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Russian Bomber Base Suffered Major Damage To Munitions Area In Ukrainian Drone Attack

Posted on Mar 21, 2025

Kratos has revealed that it is working on a new drone capable of flying at hypersonic speeds, typically defined as anything above Mach 5.

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Kratos Has A Hypersonic Drone In The Works

Posted on Mar 20, 2025

An apparent Ukrainian drone attack targeted Russia’s Engels-2 Air Base in the Saratov region 300 miles from the Ukrainian border, according to available imagery. At this stage it’s unclear whether any Russian aircraft were damaged in the incident, although there are indications that the primary target was a weapons storage area. Long-range bombers flying from the base regularly attack Ukraine and the airfield, and other like it, have long been high-priority targets for Kyiv.

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Massive Explosion Rocks Key Bomber Base Deep Inside Russia

Posted on Mar 20, 2025

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Ukraine Launches FPV Drone Attack On Russia’s Air Defenses In Crimea

Posted on Mar 19, 2025

The U.S. Army has released a picture of a Bradley fighting vehicle using its BGM-71 TOW anti-tank guided missile launcher to fire something else referred to simply as the "670," which appears to be previously unseen.

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Mysterious Weapon Fired From Bradley Fighting Vehicle During Exercise

Updated on Mar 19, 2025

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Radars Deployed To Mexico Border To Detect Cartel Drones (Updated)

Posted on Mar 17, 2025

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin has confirmed that U-2 Dragon Lady spy planes have been flying missions around the border with Mexico.

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U-2 Spy Planes Are Flying Border Security Missions Air Force Confirms

Posted on Mar 14, 2025

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Ukrainian Long-Range Attack Drones To Be Tested By U.S. Military

Updated on Mar 14, 2025

Pictures have appeared on social media showing work in Ukraine to turn a tethered aerostat – what is more colloquially called a balloon – into an elevated platform for launching kamikaze drones at incoming long-range one-way attack drones.

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Balloon-Launched Drone To Intercept Long Range Kamikaze Drones Emerges In Ukraine

Posted on Mar 12, 2025

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Green Berets Looking For FPV Drones To Help Them Clear Hostile Cave Complexes

Posted on Mar 12, 2025

A view of destroyed buildings and area after a massive drone attack at the Leninsky urban district (Vidnoye) and Domodedovo (Yam village) at 4 am in Moscow, Russia on March 11, 2025. At least 2 people were killed and 20 others injured in a "massive" drone attack on Russia.

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Drones Rained Down On Moscow Ahead Of Ukraine Peace Talks

Posted on Mar 11, 2025

B-21 refueling requirements are pushing rethinking of tanker needs.

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B-21 Aerial Refueling Demands Further Point To It Being A Stealthy Flying Gas Can

Posted on Mar 7, 2025

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Collaborative Combat Drones Designed From Ground Up To Do Logistics Differently

Updated on Mar 6, 2025

Lockheed Martin has revealed more about its Common Multi-Mission Truck (CMMT, pronounced ‘comet’), a revised design based on its Speed Racer air vehicle, a missile-shaped uncrewed system you can read more about here. The CMMT is now said to be a family of systems, intended to yield low-cost air vehicles designed for a wide range of missions.

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Lockheed’s Low-Cost Cruise Missile ‘Truck’ Is Now In Testing