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Switzerland eyes drone battalion by 2028
Aug 27, 2026 (AFP)
"From 2028, the army will deploy its own drone battalion for reconnaissance, operations and defence," the defence ministry said in a statement. The battalion wi...
ThinKom Develops Self-Funded Mobile HPM Weapon to Counter Drone Swarms
May 04, 2026 (SPX)
Alecto couples ThinKom's patented VICTS steerable mechanical phased array with vacuum electronics to produce peak power densities described as orders of magnitu...
Reliable Robotics Pursues FAA Certification for Network-Agnostic UAS Datalink System
May 04, 2026 (SPX)
The Mountain View, California company's C2 Link System is designed to be network-agnostic, supporting connectivity between aircraft and remote pilots, shared tr...
Hezbollah's fibre-optic drones pose new challenge for Israel
May 02, 2026 (AFP)
The Israeli military -- considered one of the most advanced in the world -- has confirmed two soldiers and one civilian contractor killed in explosive drone att...
China Moves To Convert Underused Airspace Into A New Industrial Growth Engine
Apr 28, 2026 (SPX)
What was once empty airspace below commercial flight paths is the next frontier of industrial expansion. The so-called "low-altitude economy" - encompassing dro...
EDA taps Airbus to broaden Capa-X drone mission roles
Mar 29, 2026 (SPX)
The contract runs for 48 months with a total budget of about 1.1 million euros and focuses on evolving the existing Capa-X uncrewed aerial system into a more ca...
Airspan extends 5G in motion to defense aerial networks
Mar 29, 2026 (SPX)
The company is advancing a 3GPP-based Integrated Access and Backhaul architecture that operates efficiently between terrestrial infrastructure and satellite net...
Hawk shape shifting in flight may guide future drone control
Mar 29, 2026 (SPX)
A new study from researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of California, Davis, shows how a Harris's hawk adjusts its wing and tail configurat...
Zelensky says 11 countries asking Ukraine for drone help against Iran
Mar 09, 2026 (AFP)
Ukraine has to fend off nightly barrages of Iranian-designed Shahed attack drones launched by Russia, an ally of Tehran. They now being used in strikes across t...
Drone strikes on Sudan markets kill 33: medical source
Mar 08, 2026 (AFP)
The strikes targeted the markets of Abu Zabad and Wad Banda in West Kordofan state -- part of the resource-rich Kordofan region that is currently the fiercest b...
Kuwait airport, Saudi Arabia targeted as Iran presses Gulf attacks
Mar 08, 2026 (AFP)
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait all reported new attacks, after loud explosions were heard in Dubai and Bahrain's Manama a day earlier, and Kuwait's national oil...
EU's Kallas warns anti-drone stock 'limited' as Mideast, Ukraine wars rage
Mar 05, 2026 (AFP)
Speaking before a video call between EU and Gulf State foreign ministers, Kallas warned production of drone interceptors would struggle to keep up with high dem...
Azerbaijan says Iran drone attack 'will not go unanswered'
Mar 05, 2026 (AFP)
The midday attacks involved at least two drones that crossed from Iran into Azerbaijan's exclave of Nakhichevan, which borders Iran and is separated from mainla...
Saudi Arabia intercepts drone attack targeting huge refinery: defence ministry
Mar 04, 2026 (AFP)
"Initial estimates indicate that the attack was carried out by a drone and did not result in any damage," the ministry said in a statement posted on X. On Monda...
Gulf defences unprepared for Iranian drones, analysts say
Mar 03, 2026 (AFP)
Since the operation began on Saturday, "Iran has primarily used ballistic missiles to attack Israel, but has relied on drones to attack Gulf countries", accordi...
Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
Feb 27, 2026 (SPX)
During the demonstration, operators engaged autonomy mode to conduct a four hour mission with the YFQ-42A controlled from the ground by a single human operator....
AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
Feb 23, 2026 (SPX)
The company is using NTDefence Week, the Northern Territory's flagship defence summit in Darwin, to launch a call for Australian payload partners and to outline...
Australian defence firm helps Ukraine zap Russian drones
Feb 19, 2026 (AFP)
From the trenches of Ukraine to the Red Sea and the cartel wars of South and Central America, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are an ubiquitous part of modern c...
Drones, sirens, army posters: How four years of war changed a Russian city
Feb 18, 2026 (AFP)
Hiding his face behind a balaclava, the 19-year-old told AFP he would soon leave to fight in the war, vowing "to defend my country" -- which launched a large-sc...
Bitter cold complicates Ukraine's drone defence
Feb 16, 2026 (AFP)
Temperatures across the 1,200-kilometre (745-mile) front line have plunged to their lowest of the entire four-year Russia-Ukraine war, complicating the use of b...
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