FORT SILL, Okla. — What's harder to shoot down than a small drone in the sky? Students at the War Department's only joint training center for countering aerial threats will likely say it's what they ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drones changed the rules. They scout quietly, strike from odd angles, and swarm in ways that overwhelm old defenses. You can buy parts online, assemble them quickly, and adjust tactics overnight. That ...

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 ...

HOHENFELS, Germany — Spc. Basil Holland looked on with keen interest this week as a Performance Drone Works C100 quadcopter with an invention of his attached took to the sky carrying four simulated ...

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 ...

What started in the skies has moved to the ground. The next drone revolution is here and being led by Ukraine’s army. The key question is not whether this battle-hardened military, the largest in ...

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 ...