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Pentagon Builds Amazon Style Portal For Counter Drone Gear
The Pentagon is building a new online marketplace that will let military bases and partner agencies shop for counter drone equipment the same way.
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Ukraine’s Viral ‘Call Of Duty’ Drone System Awards Points For Russian Targets
Ukraine’s military has transformed drone warfare into a competitive video game where verified kills earn points redeemable for advanced weapons, resulting in 18,000 Russian casualties in September alone. The gamified “Army of Drones Bonus System” has gone viral among Ukrainian units and now extends beyond drone strikes to artillery, reconnaissance, and logistics operations, fundamentally reshaping
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French Photojournalist Antoni Lallican Killed by Russian Drone Strike in Ukraine
French photojournalist Antoni Lallican, 37, was killed by a Russian FPV drone attack while covering the war in eastern Ukraine on Friday, October 3, marking the first journalist death by drone in the nearly three-year conflict. The European and International Federations of Journalists condemned the attack as a war crime, calling for an investigation into…
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Kamikaze Drones with 1,200-Mile Range Spotted in Sudan’s Darfur Conflict
More than a dozen advanced kamikaze drones with ranges of up to 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) were identified near Nyala airport in Sudan’s Darfur region in May, signaling a major escalation in the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) drone capabilities, according to images analyzed by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab and verified by Reuters. The new…
United States
Trump Boasts of Drone Strike on Venezuelan Boat, Sparking Outrage
In a move that has sent shockwaves through Washington and Caracas, President Trump has boasted about a lethal drone strike on a speedboat in the Caribbean, an action that Senator Rand Paul has exposed as a potential breach of the rules of engagement and a killing without due process. In a very interesting report from…
Police
Drone Attack Downs Colombian Police Black Hawk Helicopter, Killing 12 Officers
A Colombian police Black Hawk helicopter was brought down by an armed group using a drone, killing 12 officers in the latest escalation of drone-enabled violence against the country’s security forces. The helicopter was struck Thursday morning near Amalfi, in Antioquia province, by a drone operated by a cocaine-trafficking militia, according to The Wall Street…
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Armed Drone Explodes at Haiti SWAT Base, Killing 2 Officers and Exposing UAV Protocol Gaps
Two Haitian police officers were killed and six others injured after an attack drone deployed in Haiti’s anti-gang campaign detonated at a police base in Port-au-Prince, raising urgent questions about how government-run and contractor-led drone strike operations are coordinated and secured, reports the New York Times. Fatal Blast During Drone Disarmament at SWAT Facility Officials…
Counter-Drone
U.S. Drone Defenses Go Big: Zapping Threats on a Budget
Building defenses that swat drones like flies without breaking the bank. A National Interest report dives into a Pentagon task force tackling drone
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