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US Marines Deploy AI Rifle Scope Against Iranian Drones
Drones are the primary target for the US Marine Corps' new SMASH 2000L AI rifle scope. Learn how this computer-vision technology is neutralizing UAS threats with 95% accuracy.
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An-28 Becomes World’s First Drone-Launching Drone Hunter
On April 23, footage from Ukrainian pilot Tymur Fatkullin showed an Antonov An-28 turboprop firing P1-SUN interceptor drone from underwing
FAA
Russia Builds Shahed Drones With Teen Labor at Alabuga
A 16-year-old named Darina stares into a YouTube camera and announces she’ll soon earn 150,000 rubles a month, roughly $2,000, assembling drones at what her recruiters call the world’s largest drone factory. Her parents are proud. She wants other teenagers to follow her in, as Coda Story reports. The factory is the Alabuga complex in…
Amazon
The $30,000 Drones That Cost Amazon $150 Million
The bigger story is that Amazon's insurance won't pay a dollar of it. War exclusions are standard. And in this new kind of war, drones are the weapon
Counter-Drone
Navy’s First Carrier Laser Test Destroys Multiple Drones
The US Navy just put a laser weapon on an aircraft carrier for the first time. On October 5, 2025, a palletized AeroVironment LOCUST system detected, tracked, and destroyed multiple drones in a live-fire test aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, as reported by News Nation Now. The Navy sat on the news for 197…
Ukraine
Australia Bets $5B on Laser and Interceptor Drone Defense
Australia just unveiled a decade-long counter-drone push worth up to $7 billion AUD (about $5 billion USD), anchored by two Melbourne companies building hardware the Defence Industry Minister compared to Star Wars, as The Sydney Morning Herald reported. The initial $31 million AUD ($22 million USD) in contracts went to AIM Defence for a high-powered…
New Jersey
FBI Probes Theft Of 15 Agricultural Spray Drones In New Jersey As Iran War Heightens Bioterror Fears
Fifteen agricultural spray drones were stolen from a New Jersey location last month in what the FBI is treating as a sophisticated, possibly coordinated theft, according to reporting by national security journalists Jack Murphy and Sean D. Naylor at The High Side. The case is unsolved. Retired FBI agent Steve Lazarus told the outlet the…
Department of Justice
Iranian Operative Nabbed at LAX Over $70M Sudan Drone Deal
Prosecutors say the Woodland Hills resident spent years brokering Iranian weapons including a $70 million contract for Mohajer-6 armed drones
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