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Soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division’s engineer battalion at Fort Riley, Kansas, spent the last week of April launching one-way strike drones in a series of live experimentation events with a small defense contractor, as DVIDS reported. The exercise has a name: the Diehard One-Way Strike Drone Experimentation Series. The mission concept it’s testing is…
Oleksiy Klochkovsky drives a white Mercedes truck through the villages outside Kharkiv with his left ear deliberately uncovered. He doesn’t play music. He keeps an AirPod in his right ear for phone calls only. The left side stays open so he can hear what’s coming from the sky. For four years, the 37-year-old has delivered…
France’s 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade is using the ORION 26 exercise to break its platoons into small drone-armed combat cells, a doctrinal shift pulled directly from the lessons of the war in Ukraine, as Defence Blog reported. The brigade announced the experiment on April 18, 2026. The goal is blunt. Make infantry harder to find,…
More than a half dozen drones flew into restricted airspace around Coors Field during the Colorado Rockies’ opening homestand against the Philadelphia Phillies from April 3 through 5, as ESPN reported. Nobody was arrested. The FAA and the FBI issued a joint warning on Thursday, April 16, trying to keep drones out of the stadium…
A Ukrainian company called PAWELL has figured out how to take battery cells designed for electric vehicles and stuff them into fixed-wing drones. The result: operational range jumped from roughly 19 miles to 122 miles on a single charge, as Euro Maidan Press reports. One of those upgraded drones has already destroyed a Russian Buk-M1…
GoPro just made the jump from action camera company to cinema camera company. The MISSION 1 Series, announced today via press release from the company, is a lineup of three compact cameras built around a new 50-megapixel 1-inch sensor and GoPro’s new GP3 processor. The flagship MISSION 1 PRO shoots 8K video at 60 frames…
This article is about two things that I really like: drones and guns. The U.S. Army just gave soldiers the simplest possible counter-drone tool: a bullet. Troops assigned to the XVIII Airborne Corps Signal Detachment conducted live-fire training with the 5.56mm L-variant Drone Round at Oak Grove Training Center in North Carolina on April 9,…
A Boise, Idaho company called Talon Avionics has built a counter-drone system that doesn’t start with radar. It starts with microphones. The SECTR platform uses AI-powered acoustic sensing to detect, track, and physically destroy hostile FPV drones before traditional sensors even register the threat, as Militarnyi reports. How SECTR Works The system is built around…
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