New Atlas

Honeybee trick helps drones fly home without GPS

Honeybees routinely travel up to 2 miles (3 km) from their hive in search of food before returning home, with remarkable accuracy. Relative to body size, this is comparable to a human traveling ...
Business Insider

A US task force gearing up for a counter-drone fight put a new autonomous system to the test at the southern border

A US task force focused on defeating drone threats recently put a new autonomous counter-drone system to the test at the US southern border. The Joint Interagency Task Force 401, or JIATF-401, is an ...
The National Interest

Ukraine’s Drones Can Now Kill Without a Human in the Loop

A Ukrainian drone developer recently announced that AI-controlled drones had killed Russian soldiers without human oversight—a new, and not entirely positive, milestone in modern warfare. It is no ...
Washington Times

In America’s race to build drones, we’ve forgotten drone operators

A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each weekday. OPINION: The ...
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Massive Russian drone strike leaves Konotop without power

Ukraine faced a major overnight air assault after Russia launched 221 drones and two Iskander-M ballistic missiles at multiple regions across the country. Ukrainian air defenses reported intercepting ...
CBS News

U.S. Apache helicopter shot down by Iran, Trump says; crew rescued by sea drone

Charlie D'Agata is CBS News' senior national security correspondent. He was previously a senior foreign correspondent and has spent more than two decades covering international news for CBS. An Apache ...
Ars Technica

Drone boat picked up downed US Army helicopter pilots—a first for sea rescues

A drone boat picked up two US Army pilots from waters near the Strait of Hormuz after their helicopter gunship went down, US military officials said. The incident apparently represents the first time ...
New Scientist

Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

Fully autonomous drones with no human oversight have killed soldiers on the battlefield for the first time. This is according to a senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry, marking a watershed ...
The New York Times

How Ukraine Uses A.I. to Knock Deadly Russian Drones Out of the Skies

Interceptors show Ukraine’s embrace of autonomous technologies trained on immense troves of wartime data. A Ukrainian P1-Sun Long, designed to intercept Russian Shahed drones.Credit... Supported by By ...
Reuters

What is the sea drone that rescued US helicopter crew?

WASHINGTON, June 9 - A U.S. Navy drone rescued two Army helicopter crew members after their helicopter was shot down in the Middle East, in what was believed to be the ‌first known U.S. use of an ...
Washington Times

U.S. losing Reaper drones in the Mideast without any clear plan to replace them

A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each weekday. The U.S. Air Force ...