The United States and its allies have historically prioritized accurate but expensive defense solutions. Drones challenge ...

Iran has also hit U.S. military bases with these drones, including an early April 2026 attack on the U.S. Victory Base ...

The DJI Lito 1 and Lito X1 are like a DJI Mini, but for less. Good luck finding it in the U.S. Reading time 3 minutes If you ...

The Army's top official lauded the Merops drone's performance defending against Iranian long-range kamikaze drones.

Ukraine’s military has contracted 1.8 million drones worth nearly UAH 147 billion for 2024-2025, a procurement surge that captures a broader global reality: cheap, mass-produced unmanned systems and ...

On a winter night in early 2025, a Ukrainian air defense crew near Kyiv tracked more than 100 inbound objects on radar. Some ...

The US-made Merops system, which has logged more than 1,000 interceptions in Ukraine, is deployed to the Middle East.

Instead of the heavy systems used by the U.S. military since World War II—missiles and ships that are expensive to design, build, and operate—this war is powered by swarms of mass-produced and ...

They call it asymmetric warfare: our highly sophisticated interceptor missiles – Patriots, THAADs – against Iran's low-tech drones, made of materials you can largely get at your corner hobby store.

Wladimir van Wilgenburg stands in a residential neighborhood in Erbil, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and points out incoming drones high in the sky. "The U.S. defense systems, as you can see, are ...

While Ukraine seeks to shift its image from not only a recipient of military aid but also a provider, its battle-tested, anti-drone tech is taking center stage in the Iran war.