Drones, sometimes called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), are having a transformational moment. While drones have existed since the early 20th century (originally ...

If a DJI drone was on your list to buy going into 2026, you might want to act quickly. The Federal Communications Commission has implemented an anticipated ban on the import of foreign-made drones, ...

This story originally appeared in Politico Magazine and appears on Business Insider through the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network. When the Pentagon announced a "joint interagency task force" in ...

“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 ...

A paratrooper prepares a Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems for flight. (Sgt. Devyn Adams/Army) On Tuesday, the Pentagon released an open call to industry to rapidly obtain and deploy over 300,000 small ...

As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous killing machines.

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 ...

Farmers, builders and police officers use drones made by DJI, a Chinese company. President Trump and his allies want to stop all imports. By Farah Stockman Farah Stockman covers manufacturing. Over ...

For a few years now, and particularly since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, conventional wisdom has said that the future of warfare is swarms of cheap drones with explosives ...

Given the rapid pace of technological advancements on today’s battlefield (particularly in AI) understanding the capabilities of adaptive technologies and unmanned systems is imperative, especially ...