China’s updated “Unreliable Entity List” — a list of American companies banned from doing business in China in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s tariffs — has grown to include eleven U.S. drone manufacturers.
The astoundingly rapid evolution of drone warfare in the Ukraine war has led to some engagements where almost all of the fighting was performed by autonomous and semi-autonomous machines, both on the ground and in the air – bringing the world closer to the long-feared state of “hyperwar,” where human commanders might not be able to plan and communicate quickly enough to control their machines.
China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday mocked the United States as a “breeding ground for delusion” because of the furor over drone sightings in New Jersey.
China hit American drone manufacturer Skydio with sanctions this month, potentially cutting the company’s supply chain and preventing it from supplying more drones to the Ukrainian military.
India signed a $3.5 billion deal to buy MQ-9B drones — the SkyGuardian variant of the famed Reaper — from the United States.
European intelligence sources said on Wednesday that Russia has developed a new model of attack drone in China with the help of Chinese specialists, and will soon deploy that weapon on the battlefields of Ukraine.
Ukraine launched a major drone attack against Moscow and several other Russian cities in one of the largest Ukrainian strikes of the war.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed on Sunday to have shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed on Sunday to have shot down another expensive U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone.
The government of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Tuesday relaxed Japan’s export controls on defense equipment.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen launched missiles at a Chinese-owned oil tanker, seemingly violating a promise of safe passage.
India’s leading drone manufacturer IdeaForge is making a play for U.S. business with a line of light, high-endurance drones engineered to fly in the thin atmosphere and harsh climate of the Himalayas.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has “taken delivery of sophisticated homegrown kamikaze and combat unmanned aerial vehicles,” Iran state media said.
2023 was a landmark year for drone warfare as the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) became increasingly widespread among combatants of every size and ideology.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday claimed production of China’s CH drones is “running at maximum capacity thanks to heavy market demand” – heavy enough to warrant a new state-of-the-art production line that will become fully operational next year.
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) observed more than 1,000 migrant got-aways during a flight over the Del Rio Sector, a source operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed. The Del Rio Sector averaged approximately 1,700 apprehended migrants per day in August.
A blind man was located by a law enforcement drone after he became lost in the woods for nearly 33 hours in Enfield, Connecticut, on Saturday.
In a fierce battle for market share against world superpowers China and the United States, Israel’s drone industry likes to say it has a secret weapon — military experience.
Israeli border police dropped tear gas from a drone onto Palestinian protesters in Gaza on Friday, a police spokesman told AFP, acknowledging operational deployment of new technology.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about recent American and Israeli military actions in Syria.
President Trump’s started the 90-day clock that will give the FAA the right to set a national standard for pilot drone operations in all 50 states.
China is filling the void left by U.S. restrictions on selling powerful military drones to most countries, including American allies like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Egypt and foes such as North Korea, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has learned.
South Korea’s military said on Tuesday that it fired warning shots at an unidentified flying object, possibly an unmanned aerial vehicle, that crossed the border with North Korea.
ISIS claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the launching of two rockets which were fired into Israel from the Sinai Peninsula and landed in open space in the Eshkol Regional Council on Monday morning.
In response to a Freedom of Information Act Request, the Pentagon has released a report from March 2015 that describes surveillance drone flights over the United States. The report says fewer than 20 such flights were made between 2006 and 2015, all of them for “non-military” missions, although the exact details of those missions were not revealed.
