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Kamikaze Sea Drones Help Sink Ex-USS Peleliu in a RIMPAC 2026 First
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Charles Harbour, Commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet (DVIDS, public domain) — Digitally crewed surface vessel heads out to sea during RIMPAC 2026.
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Robots Hunting Robots: Anduril and Ultra Maritime Demo Autonomous Counter-UUV Tracking at Navy's Lanternfish 2026
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Nye / DVIDS (public domain) — EODMU8 explosive ordnance disposal technicians deploy and track UUVs during Seabreeze26
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Farnborough 2026: Ukraine Reveals a Missile-Armed Liutyi, Turning Its Signature Strike Drone Into a Reusable Standoff Shooter
Police of Finland via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
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Romania Downs Three Drones in Three Days, Its First Shootdowns Since 2022
U.S. Air Force photo by Devon Bistarkey / DVIDS (public domain). Containerized counter-UAS system designed to detect, track, and intercept unmanned aircraft, tested during the Falcon Peak 25.2 exercise.
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MARSS, Now Inside EOS, Says Its Interceptor MR Has Been Downing Shaheds in the Middle East
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Cody Fitzgerald via DVIDS (Public Domain)
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MBDA's SPEAR Mini Cruise Missile Is Headed for the MQ-9B Protector and Gambit CCA
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Julianne Sitterding, 163d Attack Wing (via DVIDS, public domain)
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Saronic and Samsung Heavy Industries Join Forces to Mass-Produce Autonomous Warships
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Kyle Carlstrom via DVIDS (public domain) — the autonomous surface vessel Sea Hunter departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to begin the RIMPAC 2026 sea phase, July 7, 2026.
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Britain Bets on Tekever's AR5 to Bury Watchkeeper in £400M CORVUS Drone Deal
U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Savannah Smith, 119th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (DVIDS, public domain)
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The Air Force Starts Building Its Own Base Defense: A Launcher RFI, and 20-Airman Point Defense Flights
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Michael A. Richmond / DVIDS (public domain). A 7th Security Forces Squadron defender engages targets during an X4 and SMASH 2000L C-sUAS firing qualification hosted by JIATF-401 at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center, Wyoming, May 15, 2026.
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Archer's Halo: The Commercial Twin of Anduril's Thunder Bets on Uncrewed Heavy Cargo VTOL
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joseph Helms (DVIDS, public domain)
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Commerce Just Deleted the UAE From the Missile Technology Country Group — and Opened a Drone Export Lane
U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Christopher Jacobs, 380th Air Expeditionary Wing (DVIDS, public domain) — MQ-9 Reaper at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates
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NAVSEA Wants a 400-Foot Drone Mothership for SOUTHCOM: Inside the Special Mission Vessel RFI
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Sarah Stegall / DVIDS (public domain). ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial System on the flight deck of the expeditionary sea base USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3), Feb. 22, 2021.
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The Anode Bottleneck: Sila's $300M Raise and America's Drone Battery Problem
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Hunter Carpenter / DVIDS (public domain) — Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division connect the battery of a PDW C100 heavy-lift quadcopter during Exercise Balikatan 2026, Laoag City, Philippines, April 25, 2026.
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Skydio Gets Its Whole Lineup Cleared — Including the First Blue UAS Drone-in-a-Box for DFR
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Yvonne Lewis / DVIDS (public domain) — Soldiers of the 315th Engineer Battalion, 130th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade demonstrate the Skydio X10D drone, Del Rio, Texas, May 22, 2026.
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$80 Million for Copper and Steel: The Army Buys a Domestic Drone-Motor Stator Line in Anniston
Photo by Danielle Weinschenk / Tobyhanna Army Depot (DVIDS, public domain)
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Australia Will Let Some Large Drones Fly Commercially With No Certificate of Airworthiness
U.S. Air Force photo by William Lewis / DVIDS (public domain)
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No Satellites, No Pilot, No Map: Inside NATO's SAPIENCE Finale for Autonomous Search-and-Rescue Drones
U.S. Navy photo by Eric Parsons / DVIDS (public domain) — A large quadcopter UAV flies during NATO's REPMUS 2025 exercise at the Portuguese Navy Operational Experimentation Center, Troia, Portugal, Sept. 25, 2025.
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Lasers on the Flight Line: USAFE-AFAFRICA Fields the Compact Laser Weapon System Across Europe and Africa
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Ethan Pumphret / DVIDS (public domain) — Marines with 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion assemble the Compact Laser Weapon System (CLaWS) at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., Feb. 20, 2020.
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BAE Built Britain's First Combat Drone on Its Own Dime — Then Handed the Bill to the Government at Farnborough
Tech. Sgt. Jennifer Healy / Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs (DVIDS, public domain)
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The 1,000-Pound Crop Duster: US Heavy-Lift Ag Drones Scale Up Just as the FAA Starts Auditing Part 137 Exemption Holders
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District / Brian Murphy (DVIDS, public domain)
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Project Solar Shield: Kratos Wins $156M Sole-Source Deal to Put Counter-Drone Gear on America's Nuclear Weapons Convoys
U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Luke Olson / DVIDS (public domain)
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The Pentagon Wants a Drone That Comes Home: $32M for 1,200 Reusable Bombers at $20,000 a Copy
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Christian Rodriguez, 163d Attack Wing (DVIDS, public domain)
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Reverse Lend-Lease: Kyiv and Washington Reportedly Sign the First Bilateral Framework to Ship Ukrainian Combat Drones Into US Test Ranges
Photo by Brad Rhen, Joint Force Headquarters - Pennsylvania National Guard / DVIDS (public domain)
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FCC Moves to Ban Import and Sale of Foreign 'Military-Grade' Drones Already on Its Covered List
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Hunter Carpenter / DVIDS (public domain) — 25th Infantry Division soldiers train with a heavy-lift quadcopter drone during Exercise Balikatan 2026, Philippines.
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The Invisible Bottleneck: Jam-Resistant Drone Radios Scale Up as Doodle Labs Eyes US and European Plants
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Yvonne Lewis, 350th Engineer Company, 130th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (DVIDS, public domain)
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$10 a Kill: The Marine Corps Picks Allen Control Systems' AI-Autonomous 'Bullfrog' Gun Turret
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Michael Robinson / DVIDS (public domain) — 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion counter-UAS range, Camp Lejeune, March 25, 2026
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X-Bow's 'Buckler': A Sub-$100,000 Supersonic Interceptor Built to Break the Counter-Drone Cost Curve
U.S. Army photo by John Ingle via DVIDS (public domain)
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Lockheed's MORFIUS X-Rotor Bets That the Cheapest Way to Kill a Swarm Is a Drone You Fly Home Afterwards
Devon Bistarkey / NORAD and USNORTHCOM, via DVIDS (public domain) — Falcon Peak 25.2 counter-UAS experimentation, Eglin AFB, Fla.
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Minneapolis Council Kills Its Skydio Drone-as-First-Responder Pilot Over ICE and Israel Sales
1st Lt. Bailey Breving, 118th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, Tennessee Army National Guard (DVIDS, public domain)
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Ukraine's Overnight Drones Go After the Supply Lines Feeding Russia's Own Drone Factories
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Alexis French / DVIDS (public domain)
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ZenaTech's 25th Buyout Pushes Drone-as-a-Service Into Oil-and-Gas Compliance Flying
Photo by Sheandra Sterling, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District (DVIDS, public domain)
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US Clears $80.1M Sale of AeroVironment Switchblade 300 Loitering Munitions to Greece
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Julian Winston / DVIDS (public domain) — "The First Team tests Switchblade for wider adoption as part of Pegasus Charge," 1st Cavalry Division
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Matternet Adds Beeline UAS to Its Part 135 Network, Betting on Operators Instead of Owning Every Route
Spc. Ra Hetep/U.S. Army, 49th Public Affairs Detachment (DVIDS, public domain)
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Operation Firecrest: How the Royal Navy Grew a New Heavy-Lift Drone Trick in the High North
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Rachel Skowyra, 361st Theater Public Affairs Support Element (DVIDS, public domain) — TRV-150 heavy-lift resupply drone during Swift Response 2025, Pabrade Training Area, Lithuania
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China's Type 076 'Sichuan' Becomes the World's First Amphibious Assault Ship to Catapult-Launch Combat Drones
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. Adaecus G. Brooks, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (DVIDS, public domain) — RQ-21A Blackjack UAV catapult-launching from USS Mesa Verde (LPD-19)
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UK Christens 'Storm Fighter' Autonomous Drone-Wingman Program in GBP300M CCA Push
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Blake Wiles / Air Force Research Laboratory (DVIDS, public domain)
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275 Nautical Miles on Electrons: An Organ Crosses State Lines Aboard an eVTOL in the FAA's First eIPP Flights
A Pivotal BlackFly eVTOL aircraft during AFWERX evaluation flights at Springfield-Beckley Airport, Ohio, July 12, 2024. U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew C. Clouse (public domain). Illustrative — not the BETA aircraft flown in the FAA eIPP flights.
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The BVLOS Rule Is at the White House — and Nobody Agrees on Which Rule It Is
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mary Torres / DVIDS (public domain)
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Seeing for the Pilot Who Isn't There: Ground-Based Optical Radar Takes Aim at the BVLOS Bottleneck
Photo by Keith Garner, Utah National Guard Public Affairs / DVIDS (public domain)
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Two Drones a Day: Ukraine Codified 413 New UAS in Six Months — and Nearly 90% Are Homemade
U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Chau Le / DVIDS (public domain)
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Railgun Logic for the Drone Age: The Army Is Testing Whether Electricity Can Undercut the $1M Interceptor
U.S. Army photo by Brian Feeney, DEVCOM C5ISR Center (DVIDS, public domain)
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Dassault and Harmattan AI Fly Rafale-Controlled Drone Carrying New Radar-Hunting Payload
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Blake Wiles, via DVIDS (public domain) — An F-15E Strike Eagle from the 96th Test Wing's 40th Flight Test Squadron flies in formation with an XQ-58A Valkyrie flown by artificial intelligence agents, Eglin AFB, Florida, April 7, 2023.
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Elbit Pitches Turning Commercial Cargo Ships Into Floating Drone Carriers
U.S. Navy / DVIDS (Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division) — TRV-150C Tactical Resupply UAS launches from a San Antonio-class amphibious ship, Patuxent River, MD, public domain
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EU and Ukraine Sign 'Drone Deal,' Release €1 Billion to Scale Up Joint Drone Production
Maj. Alexander Watkins, U.S. Army / DVIDS (public domain)
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Navy Wants a Family of Carrier-Based Drones That Can Do Everything From Strikes to Aerial Refueling
Photo by Jamie Cosgrove, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division / DVIDS (Public Domain) — MQ-25A Stingray conducts first flight, April 25, 2026, Mascoutah, IL
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Japan's Terra Drone Teams With UAE Defense Prime EDGE Group to Build Cheap Drone Interceptors
DVIDS / U.S. Air Force photo by John Ingle — "Col. Jesse Lamarand, 5th Bomb Wing commander, examines the Anvil drone interceptor, part of U.S. Northern Command's Counter-small Unmanned Aerial System fly-away kit, at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., Oct. 27, 2025." Public domain.
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Sam Altman-Backed Brinc Raises $125M to Put a 911 Response Drone on 80,000 Police and Fire Roofs
DVIDS / U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Owen Davies (Public Domain) — Alaska State Trooper and Alaska Wildlife Trooper operate a drone during a search and rescue exercise in Wasilla, Alaska, April 30, 2026 (JBER Airmen / Wasilla PD drone training)
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The FCC Is About to Make DJI Impossible to Buy on Amazon — and Every Wireless Gadget Harder to Fake
DVIDS / Sgt. Christopher Smith (public domain, U.S. Army)
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The Pentagon's New Rulebook Says Drones Aren't a 'Silver Bullet' — Inside JIATF-401's C-UAS Handbook
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Max Elliott, 196th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment / DVIDS (Public Domain) — Staff Sgt. Pierce Gallegos, 1-9 Cavalry Regiment, 2nd BCT, 1st Cavalry Division, engages a simulated aerial threat with a Drone Buster counter-UAS device during training at Pabradė Training Area, Lithuania, May 22, 2026.
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Sea, Land, and Air: Ukraine Pulls Off the First Fully Unmanned Amphibious Assault at Kinburn Spit
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Kealiiholokaikeikiokalani De Los Santos (DVIDS, public domain) — Long Range Unmanned Surface Vessel (LRUSV) reviewed by Marines with 3d Marine Littoral Regiment at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, VA, April 27, 2023. VIRIN: 230427-M-MA011-1089
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A Rogue Drone Just Grounded an Entire Aerial Firefighting Fleet on an 18,800-Hectare BC Blaze
U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Michelle J. Ulber, via DVIDS (public domain) — Members of the 163d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, California Air National Guard, conduct a preflight check on an MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft before a wildfire support mission, Aug. 1, 2018, March Air Reserve Base, California.
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Can You Legally Shoot Down a Drone Over Your Property? What the Case Law Actually Says
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Autumn Johnson / DVIDS (public domain)
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Drone Motherships Explained: Air, Sea, and Ground Launch Platforms Compared
US Army photo by Savannah Baldwin / DVIDS (PEO Ground Combat Systems) — public domain
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What Military Drones Actually Cost, Platform by Platform
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Cody Nelson / DVIDS
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How Military Drone Pilots Are Trained: Inside the UAS Pipeline
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tyler Wassmer / DVIDS
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How the Military Is Solving GPS Jamming Now That R-GPS Is Dead
Photo: U.S. Army / John Higgins, DVIDS
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MALE and HALE UAV Deliveries in 2026: Who's Shipping What
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Elora J. Martinez / DVIDS (Public Domain) — An MQ-9B SkyGuardian prepares to taxi at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, ahead of its trans-Atlantic flight to England.
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Counter-UAS Technology Compared: Kinetic, RF Jamming, High-Power Microwave, Laser, and Net Interceptors
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Elijah Magaña / DVIDS (Public Domain) — A soldier with 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment wears the Wingman detection and Pitbull RF-jamming counter-UAS devices during Project Flytrap at Hohenfels, Germany.
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DHS and DOJ Issue Interim Final Rule Letting State and Local Police Detect, Track and Take Down Drones
DVIDS / Joseph Siemandel, Washington National Guard — Lt. Col. Robert Siau, Civil Air Patrol, operates a drone during a counter-UAS field day demonstration bringing together federal, state and local law enforcement partners at Yakima Training Center, Wash., June 2, 2026 (public domain)
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Echodyne Opens $40M Washington Plant to Push MESA Counter-Drone Radar to 30,000 Units a Year
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jake Bailey / DVIDS (Public Domain) — Arkansas Army National Guard leadership observes Echodyne's active radar technology detecting and tracking unmanned aircraft systems during a counter-UAS demonstration at Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center, Arkansas.
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NATO Allies Sign Letter of Intent for Up to Five MQ-4C Triton Drones to Watch the High North
U.S. Navy Photo by CNAF Public Affairs / DVIDS (Public Domain) — MQ-4C Triton UAS assigned to Unmanned Patrol Squadron 19 (VUP-19) taxis after landing at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam
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Ondas Buys Military Drone Maker DZYNE Technologies for $875.8 Million, Forms Ondas Sentinel Defense Division
DVIDS / U.S. Army photo (public domain) — Soldier hand-launching an RQ-11B Raven small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS) during Exercise Warrior Shield, Korean Combat Training Center, South Korea, March 20, 2023. Source: dvidshub.net/image/7693818
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Drone Delivery's Next Act: Wing and Zipline Chase Scale as Kroger Weighs Reviving Its Mothballed Program
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Alison Strout, 1st Theater Sustainment Command (DVIDS, public domain)
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DARPA's Lift Challenge Adds 30+ Teams Ahead of August Vertical-Lift Flyoff in Dayton
U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew C. Clouse / DVIDS (public domain) — Pivotal BlackFly eVTOL test flight at Springfield-Beckley Airport, Ohio, July 12, 2024
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Pentagon's DIU Opens Hunt for Disposable Drone to Complement the MQ-9A Reaper
U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Joseph Pagan / DVIDS (public domain)
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NATO Launches $40 Billion 'Drone Edge' Counter-UAS Initiative at Ankara Summit
U.S. Army photo by Maj. Alexander Watkins / DVIDS (Public Domain) - Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll leads a NATO counter-UAS letter of intent signing ceremony at Eurosatory 2026, Villepinte, France, June 16, 2026
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DHS, DOJ and FCC Finalize SAFER SKIES Act Rules Giving Local Police Counter-Drone Authority
U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Jake Bailey, 119th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (DVIDS, public domain) — Arkansas Army National Guard Soldier holding a Skydio X10 UAS during a counter-UAS technology demonstration, Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center, June 2, 2026. Source: https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9726706/arkansas-guard-soldiers-train-with-uas-and-counter-uas-technology
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Wing and Walmart Expand Houston Drone Delivery to 13 Hubs, Reaching 1 Million Customers
Courtesy Photo / Capability Program Executive Aviation, DVIDS (Public Domain) — RQ-28A quadcopter UAS
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Airbus Plots More Live Trials for 'Bird of Prey,' Its Catapult-Launched Answer to Kamikaze Drones
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Alejandro Rivera / DVIDS (Public Domain) — ScanEagle UAS team members prepare to launch a drone from USCGC Hamilton, Oct. 17, 2022.
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Amazon's Prime Air Drones Start Flying Over Baton Rouge, Louisiana's First City With the Service
U.S. Army photo / DVIDS (RQ-28A Short Range Reconnaissance small unmanned aircraft system prototype testing, Fort Benning, Ga.) — public domain, via dvidshub.net
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Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Piles Into Kratos Defense as Drone and Anti-Drone Budget Bets Pay Off
DVIDS / Maj. Nicholas Chopp — A Kratos Defense Firejet UAS launches as a surrogate cruise missile target during the Patriot live-fire exercise at Valiant Shield 22 (public domain, DoD)
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Navy Teases Next Phase of MUSV 'Marketplace' as Aug. 1 RFP Looms
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Thomas Gooley / DVIDS (public domain)
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Eight Men Indicted in Foiled Plot to Fly Explosive Drones Into White House UFC Event
DVIDS / U.S. Army (Courtesy Photo) — Sgt. 1st Class Adam L. Ritter, 787th Ordnance Company (EOD), renders safe a training drone rigged with an explosive device during Operation Cascade Defense, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA. Public domain.
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Sudan's Drone War Enters Deadlier Phase as ACLED Records Record Strike Intensity Around El Obeid
U.S. Air Force photo by A1C Elijah Harris / DVIDS (public domain) — A drone operator demonstrates the basic parts of a small unmanned aerial system during Justified Accord 2026 at the Humanitarian Peace Support School, Nairobi, Kenya.
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AeroVironment's Titan-MS Wins First $80.5M Task Order to Shield Barksdale AFB From Drone Incursions
DoD photo by Devon Bistarkey / DVIDS (Public Domain) — Falcon Peak 25.2 counter-UAS "Fly Away Kit" system demonstration, Eglin AFB, Sept. 18, 2025 (VIRIN 250918-O-GG979-4584)
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Thales Beats Safran to Buy French Underwater-Drone Maker Exail in $4.5 Billion Deal
DVIDS / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brandie Nuzzi, U.S. Navy — Electronics Technician 1st Class Kenneth Mangahas, Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Group 1, prepares to launch an Iver3 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle during exercise BALTOPS 2026, Liepaja, Latvia, June 8, 2026 (public domain)
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University of Houston's 'Safety Supervisor' Gives Drones a Provable Invisible Fence Against Crashes
U.S. Army photo by Capt. Victoria Connell / DVIDS (public domain) — Multi-Domain Command-Europe Soldiers prepare experimental unmanned aerial systems for test flights during Arcane Thunder 26 at the National Training Center, California.
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Ukraine's Drone Fleet Hits 36 Shadow-Fleet Tankers in Four Days, Squeezing Crimea and Russian Fuel Supplies
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Jesse Monford / DVIDS (public domain) — Skyways V2.6 and PteroDynamics X-P4 Unmanned Aerial Systems on the flight deck of USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54), Pacific Ocean, June 19, 2024.
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Cleveland Clinic Joins the Prescription-by-Drone Club This Summer
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Ra Hetep, 49th Public Affairs Detachment / DVIDS (public domain) — "44th Medical Brigade Project Hermes," Fort Bragg, NC, April 28, 2026
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DJI's New Parachute Turns the Matrice 400 Into a Compliant Flyer Over Crowds
Photo by Keith Garner, Utah National Guard Public Affairs (DVIDS, public domain)
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Russia's $1.5 Million Jammer Problem: Inside the Race to Blind Ukraine's Starlink-Guided Drones
U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Brent Lee, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment / DVIDS (public domain)
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Denmark's Battle-Tested Heidrun Beats US and European Rivals for a Dutch ISR Contract
DVIDS / Keith Garner, Utah National Guard Public Affairs (public domain)
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Sudan's El Obeid Under 'Relentless' Drone Bombardment as UN Warns of a Second El Fasher
U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Victoria Nuzzi, DVIDS (Public Domain) — MQ-9 Reaper at Creech Air Force Base, April 15, 2025
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DARPA Bets on Nuclear Waste to Give Drones 30-Year Endurance
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. ZaBarr Jones / DVIDS (public domain)
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Ireland's Manna Air Delivery Picks Tulsa as US Base, Plans 1,000 Jobs and 30-40 Drone Hubs
Photo by Keith Garner, Utah National Guard Public Affairs / DVIDS (public domain) — "Military UAS Ground Control Station and Multi-Rotor Drone Staged at Desert Training Site," https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9707797/military-uas-ground-control-station-and-multi-rotor-drone-staged-desert-training-site
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NATO Pledges $40 Billion for Counter-Drone Wall as Allies Race to Close Detection Gaps
Photo by Deacon Westervelt / NATO, via DVIDS (Public Domain) — NPS counter-UAS (c-UAS) prototype system deployed aboard a SOF combatant craft at NATO's Bold Machina exercise, Netherlands, Sept. 23, 2025 (VIRIN 250923-O-HO699-1001)
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South Korea Unveils First Homegrown Jet Engines Built for Combat and Recon Drones
U.S. Navy photo by Aviation Electronics Technician 1st Class William McElman / DVIDS (public domain) — MH-60S Sea Hawk recovers a jet-powered BQM-74 aerial target drone during SeaRAM testing, NAS Rota, Spain
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Drone Industry's Next Bottleneck Isn't Airframes — It's Battery Cells, and China Owns Them
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jonathan Gonzalez, Marine Forces Reserve (DVIDS, public domain) — Cpl. Cole Millard, a Raven-B RQ-11 operator with 1st Bn, 24th Marine Regiment, operates a Raven-B RQ-11 drone controller at Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, CA, July 27, 2022
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Marine Corps Stands Up MCRIG, a Dedicated Command for Small-Drone and Counter-Drone Training
Gunnery Sgt. Jesus Sepulveda Torres / U.S. Marine Corps (DVIDS, public domain) — "U.S. Marines assigned to 1st Marine Logistics Group fire M1014 shotguns and NightFighter Mini counter-drone systems at a simulated enemy drone during a live-fire range as part of a Counter-small Unmanned Aerial Systems course on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, June 17, 2026."
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Four NATO Allies Order Up to Five Triton Drones as Alliance Builds a 'Made in NATO' Maritime ISR Fleet
U.S. Navy Photo by CNAF Public Affairs / DVIDS (VIRIN 230804-N-N0840-1005) — MQ-4C Triton lands at Andersen Air Force Base
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University of Houston's 'Invisible Fence' Algorithm Grabs Control From Drones Before They Crash
DoD photo by Keith Garner / DVIDS (public domain)
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DIU Wants a Cheap, Mass-Producible Hunter-Killer Drone to Replace the Reaper
DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Ariel O'Shea, U.S. Air Force / DVIDS (Public Domain) — MQ-9 Reaper loaded with inert weapons, Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, Dec. 10, 2025
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Florida's Vertiport Funding Law Takes Effect, Fueling State's Advanced Air Mobility Push
U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King Jr. / DVIDS (public domain) — HEXA electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft during a remotely piloted training flight at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
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Kratos Adds 100,000+ Square Feet to Oklahoma City Plant to Scale Jet-Drone Output
U.S. Marine Corps XQ-58A Valkyrie (Kratos-built) test flight with F-35A Lightning IIs, Eglin AFB, Fla., Feb. 23, 2023. Photo by Master Sgt. John McRell, DVIDS (Public Domain).
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Denmark, Finland, Germany and Norway to Buy Up to Five MQ-4C Tritons for NATO's ISR Fleet
U.S. Navy / DVIDS (public domain) — MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system taxis after landing at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Aug. 4, 2023
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DARPA-Backed SYMPHONEE Program Aims to Turn Nuclear Waste Into Decades-Long Drone Power
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. James Bricker / DVIDS (Public Domain) — Marines with Small Unmanned Aerial Systems School prepare to launch a RQ-20B Puma during a tactical flight exercise at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, April 5, 2024.
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TSA: Agencies Have Seized More Than 600 Rogue Drones Across World Cup Host Cities
DVIDS / Joseph Siemandel — Washington National Guard, public domain. Lt. Col. Robert Siau, Civil Air Patrol, operates a drone during a counter-UAS field demonstration at Yakima Training Center, Wash., ahead of World Cup 2026 (June 2, 2026).
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DroneShield's Q3 Software Leap Lands as Pentagon Counter-Drone Spending Pipeline Swells
Photo by Devon Bistarkey, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) / DVIDS (public domain) — Falcon Peak 25.2 counter-sUAS technology demonstration, Eglin Air Force Base, Sept. 18, 2025
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FAA's Critical-Infrastructure Drone-Restriction Rule Closes Its Public Comment Window
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Melanie Holochwost / DVIDS (public domain) — U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet 2nd Class Jacob Seabury controls an RQ-11B Raven small unmanned aircraft system at Choctaw Airfield, Fla.
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FAA's July 4th Security Lockdown Grounds a Drone Light Show, Exposing Airspace Risk for a Booming Industry
U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Joey Swafford / DVIDS (Public Domain) — Intel Shooting Star Drone Light Show, Travis Air Force Base, Calif., July 5, 2018
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Thales Moves to Swallow Exail in $4.5 Billion Bet on Autonomous Underwater Warfare
Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Hunter Harwell, U.S. Navy / DVIDS (public domain) — EOD Mobile Unit 2 sailor briefs multinational forces on an MK18 Mod 1 Swordfish unmanned underwater vehicle during UNITAS LXV, Valparaiso, Chile
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Ukraine's Long-Range Drone Campaign Escalates as Russia Retaliates on Kyiv
DVIDS / Sgt. Aaron Braddy, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division (public domain) — Soldier launches a Raven unmanned aerial system
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ANRA Technologies' Airspace Software Now Powers More Than 55,000 Commercial Drone Flights a Month
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mary Torres / DVIDS (public domain) — Cpl. Nathan Baptiste, sUAS operator with Combat Logistics Battalion 15, lands a Skydio X2D small unmanned aircraft system near Yuma, Ariz.
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Israel Validates Iron Dome-Iron Beam Integration Against Drone and Missile Saturation Attacks
U.S. Army photo by Darrell Ames, DVIDS (Public Domain) — "Army executes Iron Dome Defense System," White Sands Missile Range, NM
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Royal Navy Launches Nyan Strike Drone From a Ship at Sea for the First Time
MC1 Jesse Monford / U.S. Navy, via DVIDS (public domain) — UAS Launches from USS Curtis Wilbur, RIMPAC 2024
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Taiwan Stands Up Littoral Combat Command, Fusing Missiles, Radar and Drones Into One Force
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Ernesto Lagunes / DVIDS (public domain) — "Balikatan 2026: 3rd MLR, Philippine Navy collaborate on Tempest Drone capabilities"
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'Red Hot' Counter-Drone Market Drives Echodyne to Open $40M Radar Factory, 10x Capacity
Photo by Staff Sgt. Jake Bailey / Arkansas Army National Guard (DVIDS, public domain) — VIRIN 260603-Z-CP903-2013, from "Arkansas Guard Soldiers train with emerging UAS, counter-UAS technology" featuring Echodyne's active radar technology, Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center, June 3, 2026.
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Palladyne AI's GuideTech Wins $2.3M Deal to Arm a New Kinetic Counter-Drone Interceptor
DVIDS / Staff Sgt. Fred Brown, Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve. "Coalition Forces fire a Coyote Block 2C interceptor during a base defense exercise at Al-Tanf Garrison, Syria, March 12, 2025." Public domain (U.S. Government work). Source: https://www.dvidshub.net/image/8982903/coalition-forces-test-coyote-uas-base-defense-exercise-al-tanf-garrison
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Hegseth Creates Pentagon 'Drone Czar' Office, Stripping Services of Unmanned Systems Authority
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District / Sheandra Sterling, via DVIDS (public domain)
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UK Unveils Record £5 Billion Drone Overhaul for Army, Navy, and RAF
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ariel O'Shea, via DVIDS (public domain) — "An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft is loaded with inert weapons at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, Dec. 10, 2025."
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Zipline and BayCare Launch Tampa Bay's First Autonomous Medical Drone Delivery Network
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Ra Hetep, DVIDS (public domain) — Soldiers of the 44th Medical Brigade prepare a drone for a UAS medical resupply mission, Fort Bragg, NC
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Idaho Becomes First State to Ban Drone Flights Over Prison Airspace
U.S. Army National Guard photo by Eric Durr / DVIDS (public domain) — Soldiers launch an RQ-11B Raven small unmanned aircraft system during a training class at Camp Smith Training Site, Peekskill, New York.
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NATO's AIRCOM Industry Day Pushes Allies Toward Mass-Producible Counter-Drone Weapons
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Luis Garcia, 52d Air Defense Artillery Brigade (DVIDS, public domain)
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Quantum Systems Raises $1.2 Billion in Europe's Largest-Ever Defense-Tech Financing
Lance Cpl. Rafael Brambila-Pelayo / DVIDS (public domain) — A V-BAT unmanned aerial system takes off during 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit Exercise III at Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue, North Carolina, March 7, 2023.
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Study Finds RF Drone-Detection Benchmarks Wildly Overstate Real-World Accuracy
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Max Elliott, 196th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (DVIDS, public domain)
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Ukraine Opens First-Ever Open Tender for 'Tens of Thousands' of Middle-Strike Drones
Lance Cpl. Daniel Childs, U.S. Marine Corps / DVIDS (Public Domain) — U.S. Marine Corps Hero-400 loitering munition drone staged before flight, San Clemente Island, California, May 25, 2022
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Drone Incursions Ground Firefighting Aircraft Over Colorado's 8th-Largest Wildfire
U.S. Forest Service photo by Dirk Giles (via DVIDS, public domain)
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Heavy-Lift Cargo Drone Maker Elroy Air to Go Public in $1 Billion SPAC Deal
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Damian Oso / DVIDS (Public Domain) — Cpl. Justin Duhon secures water jugs on a Tactical Resupply Unmanned Aircraft System (TRUAS) at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Sept. 24, 2025.
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Nearly 1 Million Comments Force FAA to Push Back Its Critical-Infrastructure Drone Rule Deadline
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Adrien Tran (DVIDS, Public Domain)
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India Launches Its First Nationwide Drone Cooperative, Betting Rural Entrepreneurship on UAS
Photo by Sheandra Sterling, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District (DVIDS, public domain)
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Russia's Record Ballistic Barrage Kills at Least 30 in Deadliest Kyiv Strike Since May
Sgt. Luis Garcia, U.S. Army / DVIDS (Public Domain) — Showcase of c-UAS System in Nowa Deba Training Area, Poland
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DoD UAS Group Classifications Explained: Group 1 Through Group 5
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Brandon Best, DVIDS (2nd Cavalry Regiment Soldier launches RQ-11 Raven UAS during Dragoon Ready 21, Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, April 15, 2021)
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The FAA Remote ID Rule for Drones, Explained
Courtesy Photo / U.S. Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (DVIDS, public domain)
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Amazon Asks the FAA to Fly Prime Air Drones Over Omaha's Suburbs — Comment Window Closes July 22
U.S. Army photo / DVIDS (Public Domain) — RQ-28A quadcopter, Fort Benning, Georgia
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Ukraine's Magura Naval Drone Sinks a Target Ship in the Philippines — Its First Indo-Pacific Combat Debut
U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Peter Bannister, 28th Public Affairs Detachment / DVIDS (public domain) — U.S. Soldiers of the 125th Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Battalion, 25th Infantry Division, prepare an unmanned surface vessel during Exercise Salaknib 2026 at Casiguran, Philippines, June 8, 2026.
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A Federal DJI Ban Just Cost One Oregon Police Department $18,000 a Drone — the Skydio Swap, Line by Line
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Yvonne Lewis / DVIDS (public domain) — 315th Engineer Battalion demonstrates the Skydio X10D drone, Del Rio, Texas, May 22, 2026
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US Envoy Tells Taiwan to Become a 'Hornet's Nest' of Drones — as Rival $6.6B and $7.5B Budgets Collide in Parliament
Photo by Spc. Hunter Carpenter, DVIDS (public domain) — Salaknib 2026: UAS swarm demonstration, Fort Magsaysay, Philippines
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Ukraine Opens a 'Transparent' Weapons Export Pipeline — Letting 27 Drone Deal Partners Buy Directly From Its Manufacturers
U.S. Army photo by Capt. Katherine Bustos / DVIDS (public domain) — Staff Sgt. Nicholas Davis and Staff Sgt. Terrence Giles, Field Artillery Squadron, 2d Cavalry Regiment, assemble a one-way attack Hornet drone during training at Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland, May 3, 2026.
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The Counter-Drone Drone That Caught Fire: An NYPD Skydio X10 Falls Into a World Cup Crowd in Brooklyn
Courtesy Photo / Program Executive Office Aviation, U.S. Army (DVIDS, public domain) — RQ-28A, the Army's Skydio-built short-range reconnaissance quadcopter
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The SAFER SKIES Rule Goes Live: Cops Can Now Legally Down Drones — If They Pass the FBI Schoolhouse First
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Max Elliott, 196th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (DVIDS, public domain)
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SOCOM Wants a 75-Mile Kamikaze Drone Off the AC-130J — Wired Into Its FANTOM Core Autonomy Brain
U.S. Army photo by David Hylton / DVIDS (public domain) — Launch of the ALTIUS 700 Air-Launched, Tube-Integrated Unmanned System, Fort Campbell, KY
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Europe Pulls Ahead: Spain Clears First SAIL III Cargo Drone Flights Over Populated Areas as U.S. Part 108 Stalls
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Damian Oso via DVIDS (public domain) — Marine securing cargo on a Tactical Resupply Unmanned Air System (TRUAS) during logistics testing, Sept. 24, 2025
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Ukraine's $2,000 ZIRKA: A 340 km/h Auto-Targeting Interceptor Built to Swat Shaheds Out of the Sky
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Alyssa Norton (DVIDS, public domain) — Soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division operate the Bumblebee counter-attack unmanned aerial system at Fort Drum, New York, May 5, 2026.
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AeroVironment Wins $500M Army Deal to Buy Commercial Counter-Drone Tech at Scale
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Elijah Magaña, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (DVIDS, public domain) — Soldiers of 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment set up wearable counter-drone systems during Project Flytrap, Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, June 7, 2025.
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BayCare Bets on Zipline: A New Autonomous Medical-Delivery Network for West Central Florida
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Caitlinn Belcher / DVIDS (public domain)
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Drone-on-Drone: Ukraine's Interceptors Chase Shaheds as Russia Fields Jet-Powered Gerans Nothing Can Catch
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Cory Reese / DVIDS (public domain)
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Drones as Plumbing: The House's FY27 NDAA Bets on Doctrine, Ranges, and a Common OS
Keith Garner/DVIDS (public domain)
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Latvia and Ukraine Will Build Strike Drones Within Sight of the Russian Border
Pfc. Henry Benson/U.S. Army via DVIDS (public domain)
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Hegseth Names a Pentagon 'Drone Czar': New DRPM-UxS to Absorb Almost Every Unmanned Program
Photo by Keith Garner, Utah National Guard Public Affairs (DVIDS, public domain)
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Collision Course Over the Suburbs: Delivery and Public-Safety Drones Are Racing Into the Same Low Airspace
U.S. Army SUAS Project Office / Capability Program Executive Aviation, via DVIDS (Public Domain). RQ-28A Short Range Reconnaissance small unmanned aircraft system.
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Echodyne Bets Big on the Counter-Drone Boom With a $40M Radar Plant
Falcon Peak 25.2 counter-UAS "Fly Away Kit" demonstration, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. DoD photo by Devon Bistarkey via DVIDS (public domain).
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Ukraine's 'Sea Baby' Becomes a Drone Mothership — Launching FPV Swarms and Torpedoing a Russian Submarine
U.S. Navy photo / U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command, U.S. 4th Fleet (DVIDS, public domain) — Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Crafts (GARCs) maneuver in the Atlantic Ocean during UNITAS 2025
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Fourth Strike in Four Days: A Drone Hits a JetBlue Jet Over JFK as U.S. Airports Still Have No Legal Way to Stop It
Devon Bistarkey/DVIDS (Falcon Peak 25.2 counter-drone technology demonstration, public domain)
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A Prohibited Zone Goes Live-Fire Ready: Secret Service Counter-Drone Teams Guard the Mall's First-Ever NSSE July 4
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Derrick Bole via DVIDS (public domain)
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Soldiers Stay Under Cover: Oregon Guard Flies a Heavy-Lift Drone to Breach Wire With a WWII-Era Bangalore Torpedo
Maj. Wayne Clyne, Oregon National Guard Public Affairs (DVIDS, public domain)
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Every Soldier a Drone Operator: South Korea Vows 500,000 'Drone Warriors' and Its First Counter-Drone Standard
U.S. Army photo by Spc. William Hunter, 8th Army / DVIDS (public domain) — Eighth Army, ROK Army complete joint counter-drone exercises
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Grubhub's Parent Bets on the Sky: Wonder Plans Texas Drone Delivery as Walmart-Wing's Network Nears 20 Markets
Photo: Roksenhorn, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) — Zipline delivery drone dropping a package
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AeroVironment's Q4 Blowout: A $642M Quarter, a $1.2B Backlog, and the 'Drone Supercycle' Goes Mainstream
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Cody Nelson (DVIDS, public domain) — Soldiers assemble an AeroVironment Switchblade 600 loitering munition during training at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Nov. 4, 2024.
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'Airspace Under Pressure': DroneShield Survey Finds 70% of Operators Can't Reliably Detect Drones — and 60% Can't Legally Stop Them
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Max Elliott, 196th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment / V Corps (DVIDS, public domain)
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FPV Goes Primetime: F1 Puts a 350 km/h Chase Drone at the Center of Its Austrian GP Broadcast
Sgt. David Cordova, U.S. Army / DVIDS (public domain) — A first person view (FPV) drone flies through the air during testing, Exercise Trojan Footprint, near Nea Peramos, Greece, March 9, 2024.
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Putin Admits a Fuel 'Deficit' as Ukrainian Drones Hit Two Refineries in One Night
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Gabriel Davis / DVIDS (public domain)
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The Drone-Stock Supercycle: Pentagon Weighs Equity Stakes as DAWG Budget Balloons to $54.6B
Photo by Keith Garner / DVIDS (U.S. Department of Defense, public domain)
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Drone as First Responder, Live: A Skydio X10 Talks Three People Out of an Illinois River at Night
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Juan Torres, 1st Marine Division (DVIDS, public domain)
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United 737 Came Within 100 Feet of a Drone on Newark Approach — and the FAA Has No Way to Stop the Next One
U.S. Department of Defense photo by Devon Bistarkey/DVIDS (Falcon Peak 25.2 counter-UAS Fly Away Kit demonstration, Eglin AFB) — public domain
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Eurosatory's Counter-Drone Effector Wave: A 4kW Pulsed Laser, a Microwave Gun, and a Passive-RF 'Cocktail' Built to Kill the FPV Threat
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory / Jonathan Steffen (DVIDS, public domain)
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Flytrex and Wing Share Dallas Skies at Scale: Thousands of Deconflicted Flights a Month, Zero Conflicts
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Hannah Hollerud (DVIDS, public domain)
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Drones in the Strait: Iran's One-Way Attack Drones Hit Two Ships, Triggering Back-to-Back CENTCOM Strikes
U.S. Navy photo by NAVCENT Public Affairs / U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (U.S. 5th Fleet) via DVIDS (public domain)
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One Line About Drones in Trump's Resilience Strategy — and What It Signals for Part 108
U.S. Army National Guard photo by Keith Garner (Utah National Guard Public Affairs), via DVIDS — public domain
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The Drone Lobby Storms Capitol Hill: Adversarial-UAS Bans, Counter-UAS Authority, and a $70B FY27 Bet
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Elijah Magaña (5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment) via DVIDS — public domain. Soldiers of 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment mount portable counter-UAS devices during Project Flytrap, Hohenfels, Germany.
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Ukraine's Top Strike-Drone Maker Turns to Missile Defense: Inside Fire Point's $700K 'Freyja' Interceptor
U.S. Air Force photo by Devon Bistarkey / DVIDS (public domain) — Falcon Peak 25.2 counter-UAS "Fly Away Kit" interceptor demonstration, Eglin AFB, Sept. 18, 2025
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One Laser, Two Jobs: Navy Lab Beams Power to a Forward Base, Then Kills a Drone in a Whiteout
U.S. Navy photo by Jonathan Steffen / Naval Research Laboratory (DVIDS, public domain)
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Munich's Tytan to Build 3,000 Interceptor Drones a Month, Claims Air Defense '200 Times Cheaper'
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Luis Jimenez (DVIDS, public domain)
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Walmart and Wing Target Maricopa: Drone Delivery's Next Frontier Hinges on Class G Airspace and the Part 108 Clock
U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist RJ Stratchko / DVIDS (public domain)
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Army Repurposes 'Gunslinger,' a Cancelled Helicopter's Fire-Control Brain, to Shoot Down Drones on the Move
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jake Bailey, 119th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (DVIDS, public domain)
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Dominion Energy Now Flies 50 Drones Over the U.S. Grid — a Live Test of Cellular BVLOS and Drone-in-a-Box Autonomy at Utility Scale
U.S. Army National Guard photo by Keith Garner, Utah National Guard Public Affairs (DVIDS, public domain)
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FAA Breaks Ground on V-PAR, Its First Dedicated eVTOL Test Range, to Solve the Vertiport Integration Problem
U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew Clouse / AFWERX (DVIDS, public domain)
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Skyways Bets on Offshore: An Austin Operator Scales Heavy-Lift Cargo Drones Ahead of Part 108
U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer RJ Stratchko / DVIDS (public domain)
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Lithuania's Granta Autonomy Unveils 'Black Wasp,' a 320 km/h AI Interceptor Built to Hunt Shaheds
Devon Bistarkey/DVIDS (U.S. Department of War, public domain) — Containerized open Counter-UAS system at Falcon Peak 25.2, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
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Montevideo Wires Gunshot Detection Straight Into Autonomous Drones — a Drone-as-First-Responder First for Latin America
U.S. Army RQ-28A small unmanned aircraft system (quadcopter), Fort Benning, Georgia. Courtesy Photo via DVIDS (VIRIN 230303-M-DH669-001), Public Domain.
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Ukrainian Drones Knock Russia's Fourth-Largest Refinery Offline as Fuel Crisis Spreads
U.S. Central Command Public Affairs via DVIDS (public domain)
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Unusual Machines Stands Up an Orlando Battery Plant Before Its Upgrade Energy Deal Even Closes
U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Brent Lee, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (DVIDS, public domain)
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Utilities Are Ditching DJI for Storm Response — and the Real BVLOS Bottleneck Turns Out to Be Data, Not Rules
Photo by Erica Bodker / West Virginia National Guard via DVIDS (public domain)
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Defense-Tech VC Blows Past Its Own Records: $14.6B in Five Months, and Drones Are Eating the Check
U.S. Army National Guard photo by Capt. Leanne Trindel via DVIDS (public domain)
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DroneShield Builds Its First Counter-Drone System in Europe as the Sovereignty Race Accelerates
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Max Elliott, 196th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment / DVIDS (public domain)
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Indra Floats Electronic Warfare 100 Meters Up: A Tethered-Drone EW Node for the Eastern-Front Era
U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Sarah Post, 105th Airlift Wing (DVIDS, public domain)
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NATO and EU Race to Close the Eastern Flank's Drone Gaps as Russian Incursions Surge
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Max Elliott / DVIDS (public domain)
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FAA Cracks the Door Open: How Part 107/135 Operators Can Get Authorized to Fly Inside World Cup 'No Drone Zones'
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Gabriel Martinez (DVIDS, public domain) — A U.S. Soldier operates a Titan V3 counter-unmanned aircraft system during a live-fire exercise in Selija, Latvia, April 28, 2026.
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Hoverfly's New 'Elements' Division Bets That the Pentagon's War on Chinese Drone Parts Is Just Getting Started
U.S. Army / Program Executive Office Aviation via DVIDS (public domain)
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Stark Banks 500M Euros at 3.5B Valuation as Europe Bets Big on Loitering-Munition Mass Production
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Cody Nelson / DVIDS (public domain) — Switchblade 600 loitering munition training, Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Nov. 5, 2024
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Hezbollah's Fiber-Optic FPVs Are Killing IDF Soldiers and Bypassing Trophy
Frode Bjorshol via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (illustrative Hezbollah Ababil UAV)
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Ondas Books $40M in June C-UAS and Strike Drone Orders, Q2 Total Tops $150M
Sgt. Cody Nelson, U.S. Army / DVIDS via Wikimedia Commons (public domain; illustrative Switchblade 600)
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Poland Navy Contracts Shield AI V-BAT for Ship-Deck Maritime ISR
U.S. Embassy Romania / U.S. Dept. of State (public domain; illustrative V-BAT demo aboard frigate Regina Maria)
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Army's SWAT-FC Software Lets Moving Vehicles Kill Drones in Live-Fire Test
Sgt. Max Elliott, U.S. Army / DVIDS (public domain)
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Army Deploys Autonomous USV Swarm to Escort Logistics Vessel in Philippine Waters
Pfc. Peter Bannister, U.S. Army / DVIDS (public domain)
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Netherlands Signs Letter of Intent to Join US Army C-UAS Marketplace at Eurosatory 2026
Maj. Alexander Watkins, U.S. Army / DVIDS (public domain)
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Orlando Activates 11-Drone Skydio DFR Network, Largest Multi-Dock Skydio Deployment in U.S.
Sgt. Austin Steinborn, U.S. Army / DVIDS (public domain; illustrative Skydio drone)
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Air Force Awards CCA Production Contracts to Anduril and General Atomics Early
Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs / DVIDS (public domain)
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FAA Misses Trump’s February Deadline on BVLOS Rule as Right-of-Way Fight Stalls Part 108
Mollyrose89 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Ukraine's USF Strikes Crimea's Only Underground Gas Storage in Logistics Lockdown Push
VoidWanderer via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (illustrative UJ-22 long-range drone)
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World Cup C-UAS Crackdown: 39 Drones Seized, Criminal Charges in First Six Days
U.S. Army SETAF-AF via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (illustrative SkyWall counter-drone system)
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Drone Flight Controllers Explained: The Open-Source Autopilot Brain Running Combat UAVs
Pixhawk project / Okalachev via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
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Three Axes, One Problem: How Drone Gimbals Keep Cameras Locked On Target
Christoph Müller via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Drone Ground Control Stations Explained: MAVLink, Datalinks, and the MQ-9 Flight Deck
Keith Garner, Utah National Guard / U.S. DoD (public domain)
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Dead Zone Autonomy: How Edge AI Keeps Drones Flying When GPS and Comms Disappear
4300streetcar via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
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Glass-to-Glass: The Physics of FPV Video Links Driving Ukraine’s Drone War
Elis Taflaj via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Optionally Piloted Aircraft: The Platform That Bridges Crewed and Autonomous Flight
Pfc. George Melendez, U.S. Marine Corps / DVIDS (public domain)
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Pseudo-Satellites at 20 km: The Physics, Programs, and Promise of Solar HAPS
NASA / Tom Tschida (public domain)
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Swarm Mesh Networking: The Hidden Architecture Behind Autonomous Drone Coordination
Sgt. 1st Class Brandon Nelson, U.S. Army National Guard / DVIDS (public domain)
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Tilt-Rotor, Tailsitter, and Ducted-Fan Drones: The VTOL Hover-Cruise Trade-Off
DARPA (public domain)
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Zephyr S: Inside the Solar Stratospheric Drone That Stayed Aloft for 64 Days
U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (public domain)
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How a $300 FPV Drone Rewrote the Economics of Precision Strike
ArmiyaInform (Ukraine MoD), CC BY 4.0
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Loitering Munition, Cruise Missile, One-Way Attack Drone: What's the Difference?
U.S. Army AMRDEC Public Affairs (public domain)
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Phoenix Ghost: The Air Force's Classified Loitering Munition Family Built for Ukraine
Sgt. Cody Nelson, U.S. Army / DVIDS (public domain; illustrative Switchblade stand-in)
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Raytheon Coyote Explained: The Army's Counter-Drone Interceptor and Its Cost Problem
Staff Sgt. Fred Brown, U.S. Army / DVIDS (public domain)
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Russia's Shahed Swarm Doctrine: Saturation, Decoys, and the Cost-Kill Math
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (gur.gov.ua), CC BY 4.0
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Ukraine's Baba Yaga Drones: From Fertilizer Spreader to Heavy Night Bomber
Trydence via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Warmate Explained: Poland's Combat-Tested Loitering Munition Scaling to 10,000 Units
VoidWanderer via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Russia's KUB-BLA: Inside Kalashnikov's Silent Loitering Munition
Mztourist via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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IAI Harpy and Harop: How Israel Invented the Loitering Munition
Julian Herzog via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
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UVision's HERO Family: Loitering Munitions Arming Marines, SOCOM, and NATO Allies
Boevaya mashina via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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How Azerbaijan's Drone Arsenal Dismantled Armenia's Army in 44 Days
ZINUZH MEDIA via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
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Gatwick's 2018 Drone Shutdown: 33 Hours, 140,000 Passengers, and No Confirmed Drone
Mike McBey via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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How Houthi Drones Closed the Red Sea: Incidents, Weapons, and the Cost Equation
PO2 Aaron Lau, U.S. Navy / DVIDS (public domain)
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ISIS Drone Warfare in Iraq and Syria: How Commercial Quadcopters Became a Military Weapon
Staff Sgt. Jason Hull, U.S. DoD / DVIDS (public domain)
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The Kremlin Drone Incident of 2023: What Happened, Who Did It, and Why Nobody Knows
Press service of the President of Russia via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
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Langley's 17-Night Drone Siege: What Happened, What Failed, What DoD Still Doesn't Know
Senior Airman Kayla Newman, U.S. Air Force (public domain)
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New Jersey's 2024 Drone Wave: What Federal Investigators Actually Found
David McGowan / Unsplash via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)
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Operation Spiderweb: Ukraine's Deep Strike on Russia's Strategic Bomber Bases
Japan Ministry of Defense / JASDF via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
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Abqaiq-Khurais, September 2019: How 18 Drones Erased 5% of Global Oil Supply
Voice of America / U.S. federal government (public domain)
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Venezuela's 2018 Caracas Drone Attack: First Confirmed UAS Assassination Attempt
Government of Venezuela via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
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Counter-UAS at Airports: Why the U.S. Still Can't Stop a Gatwick-Style Closure
Stanislav Doronenko via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Drones Over the Wall: How Aerial Contraband Became a Global Prison Crisis
Sfoskett via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Counter-UAS for Stadiums and Mass Events: How the U.S. Closes the Airspace Gap
Quintin Soloviev via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
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Soft Targets in the Air Age: The Drone Threat to U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Karora via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
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DroneDNA and Sensor Fusion: Inside Dedrone’s Airspace Security Platform
Capt. Russell Shirley-Jones, U.S. Army / Wikimedia Commons (public domain; illustrative M-LIDS)
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What a Seized Drone Tells Investigators — and What It Doesn’t
Sgt. Jordan Arnold, U.S. Army / Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
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DroneGun-Class Jammers: How Handheld RF Disruptors Work — and Who Can Legally Use Them
Spc. Elijah Magana, U.S. Army / DVIDS (public domain)
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Fortem DroneHunter F700: The Autonomous Net-Catcher Closing the Jammer Gap
Pfc. Samarion Hicks, U.S. Army / DVIDS (public domain; illustrative)
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Geofencing and No-Fly Zones Explained: How Drone Airspace Controls Actually Work
Coconino National Forest, USDA Forest Service / Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
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Leonidas Explained: How Epirus's High-Power Microwave System Kills Drone Swarms
Staff Sgt. Brandon Rickert, U.S. Army / DVIDS (public domain)
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AeroVironment: How a Glider Champion Built America's Tactical Drone Empire
Pfc. Matthew Wantroba, U.S. Army / DVIDS (public domain)
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Anduril Industries: The Software Company Rebuilding the Defense Industrial Base
MSgt. Gustavo Castillo, U.S. Air Force / DVIDS (public domain)
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Baykar: How a Turkish Family Firm Cornered the Global UCAV Export Market
Bayhaluk via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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DJI Dominates the Drone Market — And Washington Wants It Out
Jp Valery via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
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DroneShield: The Counter-UAS Company Redefining Drone Defense at Scale
U.S. Army, 55th Signal Company / Wikimedia Commons (public domain; illustrative)
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems: The Company That Built the Armed Drone Era
Senior Airman Raya Feltner, U.S. Air Force / DVIDS (public domain)
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Shield AI's Hivemind: The AI Pilot Built for GPS-Denied War
MC2 Moises Sandoval, U.S. Navy / DVIDS (public domain; illustrative)
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Skydio Explained: The Autonomy-First Company Built to Replace DJI in American Defense
Sgt. Grace Barneveld, U.S. Marine Corps / DVIDS (public domain)
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Wing Aviation, Explained: From Google X Moonshot to 40 Million American Customers
David Merrett via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (illustrative)
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Zipline: How a Drone Startup Became the World's Largest Autonomous Delivery Network
Roksenhorn via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma AE: The Hand-Launched ISR Platform That Lands in the Ocean
Lance Cpl. Brian Bolin Jr., U.S. Marine Corps (public domain)
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Bayraktar Kızılelma: Turkey's Jet-Powered UCAV and Its First BVR Kill Explained
AeroNautiKinetic via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
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Bayraktar TB3: How Turkey Built a Carrier Drone After Losing Its F-35s
Carl9311 via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0
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China's GJ-11 Sharp Sword: From Stealth Prototype to Deployed Combat Drone
Infinty 0 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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China’s WZ-7 Soaring Dragon: The HALE Drone Reshaping PLA Surveillance
Infinty 0 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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ScanEagle and RQ-21A Blackjack: Inside Insitu’s Runway-Free ISR Platform Family
Sgt. Servante R. Coba, U.S. Marine Corps / DVIDS (public domain)
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Russia's Geran-2 Factory: How Alabuga Became the War's Highest-Volume Drone Plant
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (2023), public domain
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Russia's S-70 Okhotnik: Inside the Stealth UCAV That Shot Itself Down
Russian Ministry of Defence (Mil.ru), CC BY 4.0
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Watchkeeper WK450: Britain's £1.35 Billion Tactical Drone, Explained
Andrew Linnett/UK MOD, © Crown copyright, OGL v1.0
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Coast Guard's First Multi-City Counter-UAS Deployment Guards the 2026 FIFA World Cup
U.S. National Guard photo by Joseph Siemandel / DVIDS (public domain)
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France Selects Origin Robotics' BLAZE Interceptor and Brings Production Home
Pfc. Gabriel Martinez, 100th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, U.S. Army / DVIDS (Public Domain)
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KNDS Debuts ISO-Container Drone Swarm Launcher at Eurosatory, Marrying Strike and Intercept in One Box
Spc. Luis Jimenez / DVIDS (public domain)
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Red Cat's Hellcat sUAS Debuts at Eurosatory — Shaped by Ukrainian Warfighters in the Field
Gunnery Sgt. Jesus Sepulveda Torres / U.S. Marine Corps (DVIDS, public domain)
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Ukraine's Lyutyi Drones Set Moscow's Largest Oil Refinery Ablaze on Night Nine of Capital Strikes
Cpl. Connor Taggart, U.S. Marine Corps / DVIDS (Public Domain)
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ITAR, MTCR, and the Rules That Gave China a Decade’s Head Start in the Armed-Drone Market
U.S. Air Force (public domain)
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The Sound Standard Drone Delivery Doesn't Have Yet
Cullen Steber via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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From ISM Bands to Part 88: How U.S. Drone Spectrum Regulation Works
Wacou123 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Europe’s U-Space Framework: What the Three 2021 Regulations Actually Require
Sophie Margue / European Commission, CC BY 4.0
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The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024: What It Mandates for Drones
Noclip via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
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The FAA's Four-Category Rules for Flying Over People, Explained
NASA — NASA Twin Otter aircraft
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Part 107 Night Ops: How the 2021 Reform Ended Five Years of Waiver Bureaucracy
MC2 Felicito Rustique, U.S. Navy (public domain)
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“If You Fly, We Can’t”: How Wildfire TFRs Work and What They Cost Violators
CAL FIRE (public domain)
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UK Drone Law in 2026: The CAA’s Open, Specific, and Certified Framework Explained
DronePics.Wales, CC BY 4.0
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FAA Drone Registration Explained: Who Must Register, How, and Why the Rule Almost Died
Wendelin Jacober via Flickr, CC0
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Aerial Triage: How Drones Became Essential to Disaster Response—and Where the Gaps Remain
U.S. Army / DVIDS (public domain)
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Drone Insurance Decoded: Liability, Hull, BVLOS, and What Things Cost
Alaska DOT&PF via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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How Drones Replaced Guesswork in Mining — Surface Surveys to Underground Voids
U.S. National Archives (DOCUMERICA), public domain
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Drone Photography for Real Estate: Part 107, Airspace, and the Business Case
David E. Lucas / Columbus Metropolitan Library via DPLA (public domain)
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How Drone Surveying Became Standard Infrastructure on the Construction Job Site
Aarni Salomaa via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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How Warehouse Inventory Drones Navigate Indoors—and Who's Deploying Them at Scale
Techwords via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Eyes in the Dark: What Drones Actually Deliver for Conservation and Anti-Poaching
DLathamus via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Blood in 30 Minutes: Medical Drone Delivery's Proof Points—and Its Limits
Roksenhorn via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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How Drones Rewrote Aerial Cinematography: From FAA Exemptions to FPV
Josh Sorenson, CC0
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Drones at Sea: Emissions Policing, Hull Inspection, and Offshore Autonomy
Patrickroque01 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Detect and Avoid: The Technology Standing Between Drones and the Open Sky
NASA / Ken Ulbrich, Armstrong Flight Research Center (public domain)
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The Full Attack Surface: How UAS Systems Get Compromised
Wikimedia Commons, CC0
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How Drone LiDAR Works: Pulses, Point Clouds, and the Navigation Stack Behind It
NASA Earth Observatory / USGS 3DEP (public domain)
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Inside the Drone Power Chain: Motors, ESCs, and Propellers Explained
Ed Schipul via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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How GPS Spoofing Hijacks Drones — and Why It's So Hard to Stop
Brian Shaw / NOAA National Geodetic Survey (public domain)
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Multirotor vs. Fixed-Wing vs. Hybrid VTOL: Engineering Tradeoffs for Every Mission
NASA / Tom Tschida, Armstrong Flight Research Center (public domain)
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Centimeter Accuracy from Altitude: How Drone Photogrammetry Actually Works
Stoermerjp / DroneMapper & Falcon UAV via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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How RTK and PPK Give Drones Centimeter-Level GPS Accuracy
OMDTZ via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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UAS Traffic Management: The Decentralized Architecture Replacing ATC Below 400 Feet
NASA — STEReO Field Testing
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How Drone Thermal Cameras Work: Microbolometers, Wavebands, and Physical Limits
U.S. Air Force (public domain)
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Air-Launched Effects and Drone Motherships: How Stacking Range Reshapes Aerial Warfare
U.S. Air Force courtesy photo (public domain)
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Wing Loong and Rainbow: China's MALE Drone Arsenal Explained
Infinty 0 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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MQ-1C Gray Eagle: The Army's Only MALE Drone, Caught Between Congress and Obsolescence
U.S. Army / Sgt. Jamie Robinson, DVIDS (public domain)
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IAI Heron and Heron TP (Eitan): Inside Israel's Dominant MALE/HALE Drone Dynasty
Wikibob / NatanFlayer via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
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The ZALA Lancet: Inside Russia's Most Effective Loitering Munition
Wikimedia Commons, CC0
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MQ-25 Stingray: How the Navy's First Carrier Drone Solves a Decades-Old Tanker Problem
U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Boeing (public domain)
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Pocket ISR: How Nano and Micro Drones Rewired Squad-Level Reconnaissance
Richard Watt / UK Ministry of Defence, OGL v1.0
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Russia's Orlan-10: The Drone That Tells Artillery Where to Shoot
Boevaya mashina via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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RQ-4 Global Hawk and MQ-4C Triton: America's Eyes at 60,000 Feet, Explained
U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Ramon Adelan (public domain)
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Beyond the TB2: Turkey's Akinci and Aksungur Redefine the UCAV Export Tier
Tpe.g5.stan via Wikimedia Commons, CC0
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Who Pulls the Trigger? The AI Targeting and Autonomous Weapons Debate, Explained
U.S. Air Force / Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt (public domain)
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What 'Autonomous Drone' Actually Means: A Field Guide to the Spectrum
NASA Langley Research Center / Mark Knopp (public domain)
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The 30-Minute Wall: Why Drone Endurance Is a Battery Physics Problem
Keita Honda (Project Kei) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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What a Drone Can Do Depends Entirely on What You Hang Under It
NASA / Tom Tschida (public domain)
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eVTOL, Drone, UAV, UAS, RPAS: A Precise Guide to Six Terms That Aren't Interchangeable
Harlan Huntington / U.S. Air Force (public domain)
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Glass Wire: How Fiber-Optic Links Are Defeating Electronic Warfare on Drone Battlefields
ArmiyaInform (Ukraine MoD media), CC BY 4.0
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How Drones Navigate When GPS Is Gone: The Full Toolkit
U.S. Army Reserve / Staff Sgt. Emilie Lenglain (public domain)
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Beyond the 30-Minute Wall: How Hydrogen and Hybrid Power Are Reshaping Drone Endurance
NASA / Bob Ferguson (public domain)
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Tethered Drones: The Persistent Aerial Mast Redefining Overwatch
U.S. Department of Defense / Defense Visual Information Center (public domain)
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Listening for Drones: How Acoustic Detection Works — and Where It Falls Short
NASA — A Research Drone in Front of Mars Hill
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Anduril’s Lattice: The Software Stack Rewriting How the Pentagon Fights
U.S. Army Reserve / Staff Sgt. Emilie Lenglain (public domain)
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Net Capture Systems: The Case for Catching Drones Instead of Destroying Them
U.S. Army / Staff Sgt. Yesenia Cadavid (public domain)
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Who Can Legally Shoot Down a Drone in the US — and Why the Answer Is Complicated
U.S. Army / 55th Signal Company (public domain)
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How Drone Detection Actually Works: Radar, RF, EO/IR, and the Fusion Stack
U.S. Army / Sgt. 1st Class Jacob Kohrs (public domain)
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Golden Dome Explained: The $1.2 Trillion Bet on Space-Based Missile Defense
Missile Defense Agency / Ben Listerman (public domain)
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Shotgun vs. Sniper Rifle: How HPM and Laser C-UAS Weapons Actually Work
UK Ministry of Defence, OGL v3.0
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NATO's Drone Wall: How Europe Is Building a 2,000-Kilometer Counter-UAS Barrier
U.S. Army / Sgt. Max Elliott (public domain)
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Drone Boats at War: How Uncrewed Surface Vessels Rewrote Naval Combat
MC2 Kevin C. Leitner, U.S. Navy (public domain)
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The Undersea Drone Explained: UUV Categories, Programs, and the Race Below
MC1 Daniel Gay, U.S. Navy (public domain)
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Agricultural Spray Drones: Machinery, Markets, and the FAA's Dual-Regime Gauntlet
Christopher Hedreyd / IRRI (public domain)
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The American Security Drone Act, Explained: What the Federal UAS Ban Actually Covers
Suyash Dwivedi via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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The BVLOS Bottleneck: How Drone Delivery Regulation Varies Across the World
HadasBandel via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Drone-in-a-Box: How Autonomous Docking Systems Are Redefining Unmanned Operations
U.S. Navy / MC2 Alan Gragg (public domain)
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How Drone Light Shows Work: GPS, Software, and the FAA Gauntlet
Kürschner via Wikimedia Commons, CC0
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Drone Privacy Law in the US: A Jurisdictional Patchwork Built on 1980s Cases
Wikimedia Commons, CC0
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Drone as First Responder: How Autonomous UAVs Are Reshaping Emergency Dispatch
BLM Oregon & Washington (public domain)
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FAA Part 107 Explained: The Commercial Drone Certificate That Governs U.S. Airspace
Amuzujoe via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Magnet Problem: How China’s Rare Earth Grip Threatens Every Drone on Earth
Ken Lund via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
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The Legal Architecture of Armed Drone Strikes: Three Overlapping Regimes, One Persistent Gap
U.S. Air Force / Tech. Sgt. Paul Labbe (public domain)
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Bayraktar TB2: The $5M Drone That Rewrote Armed UAV Economics
Perriquito via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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What Makes a Drone Swarm: True Autonomy, Enabling Tech, and the C2 Gap
U.S. Department of Defense (public domain)
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From the Kettering Bug to Ukraine's FPV Swarms: Military Drones Explained
U.S. Navy, All Hands magazine (public domain)
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Iran's Drone Program Explained: Industrial Roots, Reverse-Engineering, and Global Proliferation
Mahdi Marizad / Fars Media, CC BY 4.0
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MQ-9 Reaper Explained: Platform, Variants, and the Replacement Reckoning
NASA — GRC-2014-C-08231
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Pentagon's Replicator Initiative: Thousands Promised, Hundreds Delivered
U.S. Army / Spc. Adrian Greenwood (public domain)
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From Wild Weasels to Loitering Munitions: How SEAD and DEAD Actually Work
U.S. Navy / MC3 Joseph Calabrese (public domain)
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Switchblade 300, 400, and 600: AeroVironment's Loitering Munition Family, Explained
U.S. Army / Sgt. Cody Nelson, DVIDS (public domain)
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Ukraine's Drone Industry: How 7 Manufacturers Became 500 Under Fire
ArmiyaInform (Ukraine MoD media), CC BY 4.0
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Collaborative Combat Aircraft Explained: Loyal Wingmen, Attritable Economics, and the Autonomy Problem
U.S. Air Force / 88 Air Base Wing Public Affairs (public domain)
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Airbus and Kratos Unveil U740 Valkyrie at ILA Berlin, Targeting Luftwaffe Service by 2029
Photo: Staff Sgt. Blake Wiles, U.S. Air Force / public domain via Wikimedia Commons
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Alta Ares Closes €50M, Then Lands Airbus Partnership 48 Hours Later
Photo: David Hylton / public domain via DVIDS
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JIATF-401 Validates CACI SkyValor for Joint-Force-Wide Deployment After Yuma Border Testing
Photo: U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command / public domain via DVIDS
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China Closes the E-Commerce Loophole on Drone Component Exports
Photo: iamdanw / CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Helsing's CA-1EA: An EW-First Combat Drone Built Around the Jammer
Photo: Airbus Wingman mockup at ILA Berlin 2024 (representative of Europe's CCA wave) — André Gerwing / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Iran Hits Three US Bases in One Night as Ceasefire Talks Near Collapse
Photo: U.S. Army Central / public domain via DVIDS
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The Layer Import Bans Can't Reach: Congress Targets Drone Magnet Supply Chain
Photo: Suradnik50 / CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Matternet Goes Public: The First Pure-Play Drone Delivery Stock
Photo: Wingcopter delivery drone (representative) — Akash 1997 / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Rooftop SAMs and Seven New Towers: Moscow's Pantsir-SMD-E Drone Cordon
Photo: Vitaly V. Kuzmin / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Autonomous Drone Boat Pulls Two Apache Pilots from the Sea Near the Strait of Hormuz
Photo: Spc. Christ-Claude Mowandza-Ndinga, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command / public domain via DVIDS
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Is DJI Banned in the U.S.? A Precise Map of Six Overlapping Restrictions
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Drone Delivery Economics, Explained: The Math Behind the Milestone
Photo: Roksenhorn / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Drone Jamming Explained: How It Works, Who Can Do It, and Where It Fails
Photo: Sgt. Mary Torres, U.S. Marine Corps / public domain via DVIDS
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FPV Strike Drones: How Racing Quads Became the Defining Weapon of Modern Ground War
Photo: Sgt. 1st Class Brittany Conley, U.S. Army / public domain via DVIDS
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Loitering Munitions Explained: The Watching Weapon Reshaping Modern Combat
Photo: Sgt. Cody Nelson, U.S. Army / public domain via DVIDS
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DoD Drone Groups 1–5 Explained: The Classification That Governs Everything
Photo: A1C William Rosado, U.S. Air Force / public domain via DVIDS
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Remote ID for Drones, Explained: The License Plate in the Sky
Photo: Sgt. Jordan E. Gilbert, U.S. Marine Corps / public domain via Wikimedia Commons
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The Shahed-136, Explained: How a Lawn-Mower Engine Rewrote Air-Defense Economics
Photo: Main Directorate of Intelligence, Ministry of Defence of Ukraine / CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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AeroVironment and Ubiqconn Target Taiwan's Controller Fragmentation Problem
Photo: Keith Garner, Utah National Guard / public domain via DVIDS
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FAA Locks Down 11 Cities for the World Cup as DETER Gets Its First Big Test
Photo: AerialcamSA / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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FAA Part 108 and BVLOS, Explained: The Proposed Rule Reshaping Drone Operations
Photo: Keith Garner, Utah National Guard / public domain via DVIDS
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Layered Counter-UAS Defense: How the Kill Chain Actually Works
Photo: Coyote interceptor launch at Al-Tanf Garrison — Staff Sgt. Fred Brown, U.S. Army / public domain via DVIDS
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Ukraine's FP-5 Flamingo Strikes Complete Samara Refinery Hub Shutdown
Photo: UJ-22 Airborne long-range strike UAV — VoidWanderer / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Walmart and Wing Add Seven Metro Markets, Targeting 40 Million Americans by 2027
Photo: Kallerna / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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ERC System's Victor U250 Targets the Vertical-Lift Dead Zone — Rheinmetall Signs On
Photo: TRV-150 cargo drone, representative of the heavy-lift class — Staff Sgt. Kevin Ray Salvador, U.S. Marine Corps / public domain via DVIDS
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Seven Years Late, FAA Proposes Petition-Based Drone Restrictions Over 9,000 Critical Infrastructure Sites
Photo: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission / public domain via Wikimedia Commons
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French Rafale Shoots Down Drone Over Latvia — NATO's Second Intercept in Three Weeks
Photo: Senior Airman Christopher Campbell, U.S. Air Force / public domain via Wikimedia Commons
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PDW Acquires Vanteon to Own Its RF Stack for Contested-Spectrum Operations
Photo: Pfc. Brent Lee, U.S. Army / public domain via DVIDS
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THORIS: Rohde & Schwarz and TRUMPF Build a Jam-Then-Lase C-UAS Escalation Ladder
Photo: U.S. Army Palletized High Energy Laser at Yuma Proving Ground (representative) — Brandon Mejia / public domain via DVIDS
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Senate NDAA Panel Wants a Four-Star Drone Command to Fix the Stovepipe Problem
Photo: Cpl. Jonathan L. Gonzalez, U.S. Marine Corps / public domain via DVIDS
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