The UK Navy is hurling drone boats out of planes at 1,300 feet to solve one of their major drawbacks

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A Kraken K3 Scout exits an Airbus A400 cargo hold.
A Kraken K3 Scout is dragged swiftly out of an A400's cargo hold by a parachute.

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NATO can't just stockpile millions of drones and hope they'll still matter in the next war, officials warn

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A figure walks across a bridge over a trench holding a drone in the air against a blue sky and bare trees
Ukraine's fight shows how quickly drone tech becomes obsolete.

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A Ukrainian drone unit used a 'special munition' to go on a strike blitz, hitting 230 Russian artillery guns in 2 days

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Ukrainain engineers tinker with a Vampire drone.
Ukrainian engineers repair a Vampire hexacopter, one of the most commonly used drones for bombing missions.

Viacheslav Madiievskyi/Ukrinform/NurPhoto

Ukrainian drones flew all the way to Siberia to strike Russia's largest oil refinery

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Smoke rises from the Omsk refinery.
Parts of Russia's Omsk refinery were seen burning on Monday after Ukraine's drone strikes.

SOCIAL MEDIA via REUTERS

Russia's disrupted supply routes are forcing its troops to walk 18 miles to the front, Fedorov says

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Russian soldiers holding rifles shout.
Russian military servicemen shout during the Victory Day 2026 parade in Moscow.

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A Ukrainian drone maker says too much factory automation can be a weakness in a fast-changing war

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Quadcopter drone with a front camera is shown against a dark metallic background.
Ukraine's Frontline Robotics needs to make constant updates to its drones and weaponry, and it cuts down automation to achieve that.

Frontline Robotics

Russian high schools now require 17 hours of basic military training classes for 6th to 11th grade

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A Russian teenager looks at his phone while holding a Kalashnikov rifle.
Teenagers examine Kalashnikov assault rifles during a military training lesson in Moscow.

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The next evolution of attack drones like Shaheds will see AI choosing their own targets: Ukraine's drone guru

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A Wild Hornets interceptor drone chases down a Russian Shahed.
A Shahed drone seen from the camera of a Ukrainian interceptor.

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Drone operators aren't spared from the horrors of war, and they're top targets

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A man crouches in a muddy trench holding a grey drone
Ukraine's drone pilots are hunted by Russia and at risk just like other soldiers.

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Ukraine's drone pilot scoreboard logged over 800,000 recorded hits against Russia in half a year

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A female Ukrainian soldier holds a drone in her right hand while her left attaches it to a launch system.
A female Ukrainian soldier prepares a fixed-wing drone for launch.

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