Soldiers train on the Drone Buster to engage enemy drones at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California. (Spc. Marques Martinez/U.S. Army) As drones have grown into a massive threat, so has ...

The US Army is pitting ideas born in Washington against battlefield realities, with the outcomes shaping how future wars will be fought. Recent exercises at the National Training Center in California ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has worked with drones for decades, but its adoption of the unmanned systems lags behind the innovations other armies have made on current battlefields such as eastern ...

In a relatively short time, small, unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS), or drones, as the rest of us call them, have become the stars of the battlefields, doing all the nasty jobs, from surveillance and ...

When I began reporting on the Canadian military’s halting embrace of drone technology for The Walrus, one conversation impressed me. Lieutenant General Michael Wright spoke with a candour and urgency ...

TRUPPENÜBUNGSPLATZ PUTLOS TRAINING GROUND, Germany—In a grassy field near the Baltic Sea, U.S. soldiers used net-shooting hunter drones, specially outfitted 557 rifles, and .50-caliber machine guns to ...

The war in Ukraine has ripped aside old illusions: tiny quadcopters, loitering munitions, and grinning FPV (first-person view) drone swarms are rewriting rules of battle. In response, the U.S. Army is ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Army aims to buy at least a million drones in the next two to three years and could acquire anywhere from a half million drones to millions of them annually in the years ...