Weaponized drones
Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat is Officially Battle-Ready
Boeing and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) just proved that MQ-28 Ghost Bat future is arriving ahead of schedule
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High School Drone Team to Dazzle with 300-Drone Light Show
While most high school teams are practicing on the football field, a new kind of team in Peninsula School District is practicing in the night
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Mysterious Drone Incident Prompts Police Probe at Strongsville’s Meadow Lane Playground
A mysterious drone hovering over the Meadow Lane Apartments playground in Strongsville, Ohio, on August 23, 2025, sparked a police investigation after a resident reported suspicious activity. The drone left before police arrived, no suspects have been identified, and Strongsville authorities confirm the case is under active investigation, according to Cleveland.com. Strongsville Mysterious Drone U
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Drone Pilot Sentenced for Crashing UAV Into Firefighting Aircraft in California
A Culver City man has been sentenced for flying a drone that collided with a firefighting aircraft battling the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, causing significant damage and temporarily grounding the critical water-dropping plane, according to NBC LA. Peter Tripp Akemann, 57, a computer game developer, pleaded guilty in February to a federal class-A misdemeanor…
US Army
Malloy T-150 Drone get tested by US Army and Royal Navy in South Korea
The U.S. Army and the U.K.'s Royal Navy have joined forces in South Korea to test a heavy-lift drone that could revolutionize battlefield logistics.
FAA
Drones face FAA safety pushback as pilots union opposes Rainmaker’s cloud‑seeding plan
Rainmaker Technology’s plan to use small drones with cloud‑seeding flares is under fire from the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), which urged the FAA to deny the exemption unless stricter safety conditions are met, signaling a high‑stakes test of how regulators will treat weather modification by unmanned aircraft systems going forward, per TechCrunch’s report. The…
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NASA and Department of War Advance BVLOS Cargo Drone Operations in North Dakota
NASA and the Department of Defence War recently conducted a successful live flight demonstration in North Dakota, showcasing beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) cargo drone operations as part of ongoing efforts to advance long-distance unmanned aerial logistics. According to NASA, cargo drones carried payloads more than 75 miles (121 km) between Grand Forks Air…
Weaponized drones
Armed MQ-9 Reaper Drones Deployed to Puerto Rico for a Caribbean Showdown
The US military is staging a massive show of force aimed at countering drug trafficking, and at the heart of it is the MQ-9 Reaper drone
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