Why militaries well-equipped to fight enemy aircraft and missiles may still struggle to confront the drone threat

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A man in camouflage gear holds a large grey drone on his shoulder walks across a wooden bridge over a trench with a blue sky behind him and snowy ground around him
Western militaries aren't as used to fighting the drone threat as they are aircraft and missiles.

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Ukrainian soldiers are shooting down friendly drones. Companies making them say it's the cost of a chaotic war.

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Orange smoke is lit up orange as a figure fires a gun in the air in a field at night time
Ukrainian soldiers see numerous drones on the battlefield, and it's not always clear which side they belong to.

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Not getting the Western weapons it wanted drove Ukraine to create the gear and tactics the West now seeks

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A man in camouflage gear and a helet launches a dark grey drone in the air under a blue sky and in a field of withered sunflowers
The West is interested in the weaponry and tactics Ukraine developed in part as a result of its shortages of other weaponry.

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Suddenly, everyone wants drone interceptors like Ukraine, but the supply isn't there

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A man in camouflage squats touching a black bullet-shaped interceptor drone
Ukraine's success with interceptor drones, as well as the new drone threat from Iran, has resulted in a lot of new interest in these defensive systems.

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Marines are speeding up aircraft turnarounds for a scattered future fight and moving more munitions faster to keep up

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Marine aviation ordnance technicians load bombs onto an aircraft at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California on Oct. 17, 2020.
Marine aviation ordnance technicians load bombs onto an aircraft at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California.

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A Ukrainian drone company says it's teaming up with a US firm because staying home means getting 'eliminated'

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A man bends over a small stack of drones on a blue surface with stacks of small black drones behind him in a room
Ukraine's General Cherry makes FPV and interceptor drones.

AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka

US Navy reveals it lost a $240 million spy drone during the Iran war

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An MQ-4C Triton assigned to Uncrewed Patrol Squadron (VUP) 19 prepares to land at Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella, Italy, Jul. 2, 2024.
An MQ-4C Triton drone crashed on April 9, the US military revealed this week.

US Navy photo

Inside Iran's weapons arsenal

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Kurdish officials displayed the remnants of a Shahed drone (foreground) they recovered from an Iranian attack.
Kurdish officials displayed the remnants of a Shahed drone (foreground) they recovered from an Iranian attack.

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Ukraine said it captured a Russian position using only ground robots and drones, no infantry, for the first time

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A green robot on six wheels with a machine gun on top and shubbery around it
Ukraine's growing arsenal of ground robots is working with its aerial drones against Russia.

Oleksandr Klymenko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images

US allies are scrambling to buy Ukraine's counter-drone tech, but gear alone isn't enough to defeat the Shahed threat

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A man in a black hoodie stands wearing googles and holding a controller looking at a black interceptor drone in a cloudy sky
Ukraine's interceptor drones have caught allies' eyes as a low-cost way to stop enemy drones.

Genya SAVILOV / AFP via Getty Images

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