The Iranian Shahed-136 is part of the pantheon of drones that have come to define the modern battlefield. This drone, sometimes referred to as the Geran-2 when used by Russia, has become a central ...
In 2024 and 2025, I served for six months as an international volunteer on a first-person view attack drone team in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. My team was deployed in the Donbas region, in one of ...
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818. “War is chaos. It always has been. But technology makes it ...
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Images captured from video posted on social media in August 2025 showing a Russian "Night Witch" drone dropping a munition on an island in the Dnipro River. Despite potential peace talks, Russia and ...
The rapid proliferation of drones in places like Ukraine has set off a growing sense of alarm inside the U.S. Army. The rapid proliferation of drones in places like Ukraine has set off a growing sense ...
As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous killing machines. By C.J. Chivers This story was reported over the course ...