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The UK dispatches the 12th Regiment Royal Artillery to the Middle East, leveraging battlefield experience from Ukraine to defend against Iranian Shahed drone threats.
The US military has deployed LUCAS (Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System) in active Gulf operations, a drone reverse-engineered from Iran's Shahed-136 and priced at approximately $35,000 per unit.
The Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program has named 11 Gauntlet I winners set to share a $150 million order for 30,000 one-way attack drones. Skycutter topped the leaderboard with 99.3 points — and the results arrive one week after U.S. forces used attack drones in combat for the first time during Operation Epic Fury against Iran.
Neros Technologies is planting a serious flag on British soil. The Los Angeles-based FPV drone manufacturer — best known for its NDAA-compliant platforms including the Archer Fiber, the first NDAA-compliant fiber-optic FPV drone — has announced the formation of Neros Technologies UK Ltd, a new subsidiary headquartered in the Swindon area of southwest England. The…
Flying indoors with a drone requires a different kind of discipline. No GPS lock, no obstacle avoidance to lean on, confined spaces where prop wash bounces off stone walls and wooden pews. Father Mitchell Bechtold, a 40-year-old Catholic priest serving parishes in central Minnesota, logged roughly 100 hours of outdoor flight time before he ever…
The Safer Skies Act is now law, giving trained law enforcement counter-drone authority at amusement parks. But the FAA's Section 2209 rulemaking will determine whether permanent airspace restrictions follow. Here's what Part 107 pilots need to watch.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Wednesday that the United States has formally asked Ukraine for help defending against Iranian-made Shahed drones in the Middle East. “We received a request from the United States for specific support in protection against ‘shaheds’ in the Middle East region,” Zelenskyy posted on X. “I gave instructions to provide the necessary…
Full rotorcraft integration on NASA’s Dragonfly octocopter began in early 2026 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland — the same facility where engineers spent the past three years validating rotor performance in simulated Titan conditions. The timing matters because this is the phase where problems get expensive fast. And according…
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