It's a new era of drone warfare. Defense giants like Lockheed Martin and Boeing are under pressure as Silicon Valley upstarts ...

In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia Macdonald argue, based on their research interviewing U.S. ground troops, that troops prefer close air support from inhabited ...

Germany has approved a major wave of defense procurement decisions that will upgrade weapons, aircraft systems, drones, ...

“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 ...

On Tuesday, the Pentagon released an open call to industry to rapidly obtain and deploy over 300,000 small one-way-attack drones — with the Pentagon hoping to put them into the field at such a pace ...

It's hard to overstate just how prolific drones are becoming in modern warfare. In July 2025, Russia used 700 drones in a single night of the war in Ukraine. Drones such as the deadly Shaheds used by ...

As my regular reader will recall (Hi, Jeff!) from my mentioning it here dozens of times, I spent the largest part of my ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul Iddon is a freelance journalist focused on Middle East affairs. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have accelerated ...

YJ-19, China's first operational hypersonic cruise missile, seen during a military parade in Beijing, Sept. 3, 2025. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images) There are two competing narratives about the ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Military Drone market's robust growth in recent years is fueled by advancements in avionics technology, which enhance drone capabilities, and an ...

China's been working on a range of drones and uncrewed vehicles as well as countermeasures for them. It suggests China has taken some notes from the Ukraine war, where these systems have been ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The market for NDAA-compliant military drones is part of the larger global military drone market, which was valued at around $15.23 billion in 2024 and is ...