For a few years now, and particularly since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, conventional wisdom has said that the future of warfare is swarms of cheap drones with explosives ...

The success and ascendancy of the cheap FPV drones came as a surprise to many analysts. In the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War between Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2020, the first war that saw the truly ...

Russia uses expensive reconnaissance drones to direct fire at Ukraine's forces, slowing its advance. But Ukraine is getting better at using much cheaper drones to stop them, experts said. Ukraine and ...

First-person view (FPV) drones are now becoming more useful to Ukraine's front-line fighters than artillery, according to Kyiv's drone tsar, as Kyiv ploughs on with efforts to put more and more of the ...

Critics say that the US Army is far behind the drone-warfare curve. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag The battlefield in Ukraine must teach the Pentagon a valuable lesson: Small drones are the future ...

Ukraine may be a powerhouse of drone production and innovation, but Russia is complicating Kyiv's largely effective efforts to dominate the skies above the war-torn country. Ukrainian drone operators ...

Britain and Latvia will co-lead an effort to send Ukraine thousands of first-person-view (FPV) drones, which Ukrainian and Russian forces have used in vast numbers as improvised loitering munitions.

FORT JOHNSON, Louisiana—Army units learn fast that their cell phone signals stand out amid the vast, unpopulated pine forests of the Joint Readiness Training Center here. The lesson is usually ...

In July, former Google GOOG boss Eric Schmidt wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal praising Ukraine’s use of small, improvised kamikaze drones and predicting a future where they replace ...

Barely a year on from their first use in Ukraine, FPV kamikaze drones have become a breakout success. The Ukrainians have shown that these simple, $500 loitering munition made from repurposed racing ...

A Ukrainian drone operator from the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade tests an FPV drone in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, in August 2023.Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A Ukrainian ...