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The crew of a Merlin helicopter turned off their radar – and instead relied on a drone and its controllers to close in on ‘suspect’ vessels in the Atlantic. It’s the first time the Royal Navy has used a drone to help direct the actions of crewed aircraft and helps
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Sgt. 1st Class Jovani Vasquez spent a week learning about the new aircraft that he would fly for the Army — a small, commercially available drone that is cheap enough to break and replace without a lot of paperwork. To keep the football-sized quadcopter flight-ready and improve his own flying skills,
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A Russian drone manufacturer with ties to President Vladimir Putin’s daughter has published the country’s first school textbook on operating drones, the company announced. “This is currently the only school publication on unmanned aircraft systems that has passed state expertise,” said drone maker Geoscan. Titled “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles:
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One of Russia's propaganda channels shared a video claiming to show "the first shots of a combat laser from a mobile air defense unit," allegedly used by the so-called Kochevnik special forces unit. russians talk about "new threats" that "forced them to look
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Emerging threats from peer and near-peer uncrewed systems (UxS) have reshaped the character of war, necessitating the development of new solutions at a faster pace. Warfighters require UxS systems today to meet urgent operational needs. The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is using a new and agile process to evaluate new
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This photo of a field in the Ukrainian war zone covered with fiber optic cables left by FPV drones appeared recently in reddit. Here is the original: Source: reddit
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The success of OPERATION SPIDERWEB highly likely indicates a porous Russian front line and also that Ukraine has integrated basic artificial intelligence (AI) targeting metrics into autonomous UAS platforms, enhancing precision and responsiveness. Ukrainian swarm capabilities are likely limited to light Class I systems. These are optimised for striking vulnerable
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On Wednesday, May 28, during the Drone Summit, Minister of Defence of Republic of Latvia Andris Sprūds announced that Turkey and Belgium have expressed their intention to join the international Drone Coalition led by Latvia and the United Kingdom in support of Ukraine. Coalition member states have also committed to
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Ukraine has launched what appears to be its largest drone-based operation to date, striking key Russian air bases that house strategic bombers used in long-range attacks against Ukrainian cities. An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) using first-person-view (FPV) drones smuggled deep into Russian and hidden inside trucks
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Israel has used a new air defense laser to shoot down Hezbollah drones in the current conflict in the Middle East, it has been confirmed. What is described as an adapted version of the Iron Beam system made its combat debut last October, and the definitive version should be fielded
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The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has approved a domestically made anti-drone pistol for the armed forces in a move to enhance individual soldier survivability against hostile drones. Constructed as a single, unified piece instead of assembled from different components, the compact anti-drone pistol weighs just over 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds)
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Russia launched a new type of jet-powered attack UAV called the Dan-M against Ukraine on the morning of 29 May. The drones were launched in a group from Crimea. Source: Serhii "Flesh" Beskrestnov, a consultant specialised in military radio technologies, on social media Details: Beskrestnov explained that the