drones

Pharaohs had round-the-clock guards over their tombs. Today, some of the world’s most vital infrastructure sits on the seabed with far less attention, mostly because adequate tech doesn't exist. Researchers are now developing a permanent subsea guard.

Researchers from Australia and the UK have built a robotic kestrel to decode how birds handle turbulence. Their findings reveal a suite of wing-and-tail tricks that could reshape the next generation of small drones.

We got a glimpse of the Royal Navy of the future as the Ministry of Defence announced that it will not replace Britain's aging destroyers, but succeed them with at least six Common Combat Vessels (CCV) that will act as drone command and control ships.

For more than a century, pilots have relied on the same basic toolkit to steer a plane: flaps, ailerons, rudders – hinged surfaces that physically deflect airflow to change direction. A radical new experimental drone aims to throw all of that out.

AutoFlight has flown its 20-meter (65.6-ft) V5000 Matrix in coordinated formation with two smaller eVTOLs – a systems milestone that brings electric aviation's most ambitious aircraft one step closer to commercial service.

One of the biggest hitters in the conventional arsenal merged with drone technology, as the US Army tested a bunker-buster warhead combined with an expendable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for field testing at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.

In only four years after the Russian invasion, Ukraine went from being a country knocked back on its heels and scrambling for military aid to emerging as a leading provider of battlefield-tested counter-drone expertise and exporter of anti-drone weapons systems. How did this happen? Let's find out.

With a simple switch of a magazine, the Drone Round is claimed to turn a standard NATO caliber small arm into a drone-killing weapon that combines the scattershot of a shotgun with the speed, power and rapid fire of an infantry assault rifle.

Shooting down a drone with a fighter jet is as cost effective as wrapping sandwiches in gold foil, but BAE Systems has cut the price by firing an economy anti-drone Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) missile from a Typhoon Eurofighter.

The British Army and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory have completed a multi-week test in Essex using drones, advanced sensors, and AI to speed up and make safer the hunt for deadly mines and munitions scattered on battlefields.

Like an overachieving fledgling falcon, on its inaugural flight an Airbus "Bird of Prey" interceptor drone took out a medium-sized suicide drone using a Fraknkenberg Mark I mini-missile during a demonstration on March 30, 2026 in northern Germany.

Lockheed Martin has given "pop up" a whole new meaning. Instead of plopping down a shipping container to create an instant cafe, the company used a 10-ft standard container to house a compact GRIZZLY launcher and fire a Hellfire missile.