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South Korea’s defense minister Ahn Gyu-back said Friday that every member of the country’s armed forces, roughly 500,000 personnel across the army, navy, air force and marines, will be trained to operate drones as a standard personal weapon. The announcement, delivered in Seoul on June 26, 2026, frames cheap quadcopters and loitering munitions as core…
A drone flew over South Korea’s closed World Cup training session in Guadalajara on June 17, and Mexican forces brought it down before the team ran its tactical drills. Coach Hong Myung-bo confirmed the sighting a day later and called it unfortunate, two days before his side faced co-host Mexico. Whether the drone was spying…
A research team at Delft University of Technology has built a drone that changes the shape of its entire body in flight the way a flying squirrel does, and the data says the trick works. The aircraft, called the SquirrelDrone, stretches its limbs, bends its spine, flicks its tail, and lets a soft skin-like membrane…
US defense startup XDOWN has unveiled the STUD (Small Tactical Unmanned Drone), a hand-launched UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) designed to reach active flight from a stowed position in two seconds. According to NextGen Defense, a single soldier can carry 8 to 12 units in a standard tactical backpack, launch them by hand, and let the…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung expressed regret to North Korea over civilian drone incursions. Kim Yo Jong called it "wise" in a rare conciliatory move.
For the first time on public record, American forces have disclosed live-fire drone interception training during a combined exercise with South Korea. U.S. Marine Corps forces deployed from Okinawa, Japan, conducted the training on March 18 at the Daecheon Shooting Range using Stinger portable surface-to-air missiles to shoot down MQM-171A BroadSword target drones configured to…
The Ttukseom drone display was one piece of a sprawling urban activation called BTS THE CITY ARIRANG SEOUL, a month-long citywide project
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