The U.S. Navy has ordered a $56 million retrofit for a single MQ-4C Triton, paying Northrop Grumman to install the B7 retrofit material kit on one of its high-altitude maritime surveillance drones. Naval Air Systems Command awarded the firm-fixed-price modification on Oct. 28, and the work is scheduled to run until May 2030. The full […]

North Korea has released new images of its Saetbyol-9 attack drone, a near copy of the U.S. MQ-9 Reaper, firing an air-launched tactical cruise missile during a live-fire demonstration Kim Jong Un watched, state news agency KCNA showed on Oct. 30. A KCNA photo taken from the drone’s own wing shows a black cruise missile […]

North Korea has released images of a loitering munition diving onto and destroying a mock-up of a U.S. Army M1 Abrams tank, part of a firepower demonstration Kim Jong Un watched on Oct. 29, and the drone in the photos closely resembles the Hero-400 built by Israeli company UVision. The photos, published by state news […]

North Korea has shown off what appears to be a new large flying-wing stealth drone, along with first-person-view attack quadcopters and loitering munitions, at an exhibition on Oct. 29 where leader Kim Jong Un called for the country to seize “absolute superiority” in drone technology, state news agency KCNA reported on Oct. 30. The exhibition, […]

Ukrainian drone maker Frontline Robotics flew its Linza bomber drone alongside German, Ukrainian and other unmanned air, ground and sea systems during Forward Edge 26, a two-week exercise in Germany hosted by Quantum Systems, the company said on social media. In one deployment, Quantum Systems’ Vector reconnaissance drone spotted simulated enemy drones along the route […]

Singapore-based BeeX used its ALPHA underwater drone to place explosive charges on a moored sea mine and a swinging steel target and then destroy both during a closed-door mine countermeasures demonstration in the United Kingdom, the company said on Oct. 27. The one-day event, held on Sept. 17 and hosted by British defense consultancy Copper […]

Quantum-Systems has unveiled an armed version of its Reliant long-range drone, showing the aircraft fitted with a mixed load of 82 mm mortar rounds and 40 mm grenades. Dave Sharpin, chief executive of Quantum-Systems Inc., the U.S. arm of the German drone maker, shared images of the configuration on social media on Oct. 28, thanking […]

Photos have emerged of Russia’s newest version of the Geran-5 light cruise missile, known as the Geran-5 K5-K and often described in the media as a jet-powered drone, lying in a field somewhere in Ukraine’s Odesa region after it came down during an attack, with the serial number ANS-3031 visible on the airframe. It is […]

Israeli company SMARTSHOOTER has fitted its SMASH computerized fire control sight to a Benelli shotgun, taking a system best known for helping soldiers shoot down small drones with rifles and putting it on a weapon that fires spreads of pellets at close range. The company announced the integration this week, saying it shows the flexibility […]

An armed, reusable drone that fires 40 mm grenades and 12-gauge shotgun rounds and then flies back to be reloaded has been cleared for purchase and use across the U.S. military, after Skyborne Technologies’ Cerberus MI was added to the U.S. Department of War’s Blue UAS Cleared List, the company announced on Oct. 26, 2026. […]

Auterion, the drone software company best known for the autonomy systems inside thousands of Ukrainian strike drones, has shown its Talon interceptor on a test range with Germany’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr, saying the system is built to take on both single drones and swarms. Footage released by the company this week shows several German […]

Aeon Industrial, a Texas company that already makes low-cost drone fuzes in volume, has unveiled the Armory, a planned 140,000-square-foot (13,000-square-meter) factory for missile systems, interceptors, high-voltage fuzes, seekers and other critical components, saying it wants to add production capacity where the U.S. munitions supply chain depends on too few suppliers. The company said the […]

Finnish drone electronics maker Arctic RAVN has secured €2.5 million (about $2.8 million) in convertible loan commitments in five days, passing its €2 million (about $2.2 million) target before it has officially launched a single product, and it plans to use the money to scale up production of the circuit boards that power and steer […]

Spanish drone maker ARMMO Defense Technologies and General Dynamics European Land Systems’ Spanish unit, Santa Bárbara Sistemas, launched and flew ARMMO’s Bandit-X interceptor drone from an ASCOD Heavy Mission Carrier tracked armored vehicle during the ATLAS 26 counter-drone exercise in Huelva, Spain, turning the heavy vehicle into a mobile launcher for drones that hunt down […]

The U.S. Marine Corps has tested kamikaze drones in Japan, flying Neros Archer one-way attack drones armed with live explosive warheads at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, at the foot of Mount Fuji, on Oct. 20, 2026, the first time the drone has been used in its live kinetic form at the range. Marines […]

The U.S. Air Force has put the Paladin, a heavy counter-drone multirotor built by California-based Zone 5 Technologies, through training with Joint Interagency Task Force 401 at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida on Oct. 8, with the drone carrying a Gen12 counter-drone launcher that fires net rounds to entangle and bring down hostile drones, […]

Fighters from a local armed group in Myanmar have destroyed several Chinese-made ZSL-92 infantry fighting vehicles belonging to the Myanmar Army using first-person-view (FPV) drones, open-source analyst Jesus Roman reported on Oct. 24, attributing the strikes to Monywa Scout, a resistance group named after Monywa, the main city of Myanmar’s Sagaing Region in the country’s […]

A Russian drone unit fired about 100 Lancet loitering munitions over three months and hit only three targets, according to pro-Russian militant Pavel Gubarev, who said Ukrainian air defenses brought down most of the rest. The account points to a sharp drop in the effectiveness of one of Russia’s most widely used strike drones, Ukrainian […]

Britain’s Ministry of Defence has opened a tender to buy Skydio X10D small drones, the American-made reconnaissance quadcopter already ordered by the thousands by the U.S. Army, with an estimated budget of £120,000 (about $160,700) excluding VAT, according to a notice on the Defence Sourcing Portal. The tender was issued by Navy Commercial, the Royal […]

DARPA, a central research and development organization within the United States Department of War, put four autonomous unmanned ground vehicles through their first end-to-end test at Fort Knox, Kentucky, on Oct. 15, sending them as a team from a satellite-imagery tip all the way to a simulated strike on an enemy position, with a human […]