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Children as young as 15 are being taught how to use battlefield drones at a Russian government run school in west London, according to lesson plans reviewed by The Daily Mail. The Russian Embassy School in Notting Hill, which operates under diplomatic immunity, has introduced formal instruction on combat drone preparation, communications, and battlefield applications…
Australian aerospace engineer Benjamin Biggs and the Drone Pro Hub team are back. Weeks after Luke Maximo Bell reclaimed the Guinness World Record for fastest drone with his Peregreen V4 at 657.59 km/h (408.6 mph), Biggs took his upgraded Blackbird to the Australian outback and hit a peak GPS speed of 690 km/h (428.8 mph)…
The U.S. Marine Corps has quietly crossed an important threshold in military drone development by creating its first fully NDAA compliant
The U.S. Navy’s first operational MQ-25A Stingray has completed its first autonomous taxi test, marking a key milestone on the path toward flight operations, as Boeing Defense and Defence Blog confirmed the event on January 30. During the test, air vehicle pilots initiated movement from the Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control System. The aircraft then…
Turkey did not wake up one morning and decide to dominate the global combat drone market. It crept there quietly, selling capable aircraft to buyers who wanted results fast, paperwork slow, and prices low, as War on The Rocks reports. Over the past decade, Turkish drones became a familiar sight from the Sahel to the…
Sitting on static display is the newly acquired Elbit Systems Hermes 900, making its first public appearance just months after Singapore
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) just received a $2 million SMART (Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation) grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to build out a drone-based medical delivery network across its 10,923-square-mile reservation in southeastern Oklahoma. The announcement came alongside a live demonstration at the Atoka Health Clinic, where airborne drone
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, is home to F-22 Raptors and C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft. It is also surrounded by some of the most photogenic terrain on the planet. That combination creates a problem the base’s counter-drone team deals with regularly. JBER has published a public advisory reminding everyone that flying any drone…
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