How do you get cheap military drones fast? 3D-print them on the battlefield.

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A Firestorm shipping container on an airfield.
Firestorm's mini drone factory consists of two 20-foot shipping containers.

Firestorm Labs

America's biggest defense contractors are fighting for their place in the future of drone warfare

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A line of men stand in front of a large uncrewed aerial vehicle parked on a tarmac with a sunset in the background.
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US Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class William Rio Rosado

Antigravity A1 Review: There’s Nothing Else Like This 360 Camera Drone

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The US is getting serious about cheap, one-way attack drones with a new force in the Middle East

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A line of grey, Shahed-looking drones are seen on a tarmac.
The Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System are part of CENTCOM's one-way attack drone squadron.

Courtesy of US Central Command Public Affairs

Unjammable drones are leaving wires everywhere, forcing Ukrainian troops to move with caution

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The Stalker, a Ukrainian-made fiber-optic FPV drone, undergoes tests in Ukraine on July 3, 2025.
Fiber-optic FPV drones are dominating the battlefield in Ukraine.

Pavlo Bahmut/Ukrinform/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect

These drone startups are winning the war for government contracts

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A Ukrainian soldier controls a drone during a training flight on May 9, 2023, in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Soldiers use Xbox-style controllers to fly drones.

Oleg Palchyk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

A Ukrainian drone maker says its interceptor took down a Russian Shahed armed with an air-to-air missile

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A Sting interceptor drone closes in on a Russian shahed.
Ukrainian drone-maker Wild Hornets said its interceptor took down a Russian drone carrying an air-to-air missile.

Wild Hornets/Screengrab via X

Ukrainian special ops forces narrowly dodged a drone strike. A soldier says his driver 'drove like a god.'

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A Russian drone attacks a group of Ukrainian special operators in September.
A Russian FPV drone hunts down a group of Ukrainian special operators.

4th Ranger Regiment of the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine/Screengrab via X

Ukrainian soldiers say Russian strike drones are flying smaller drones into battle like an 'aircraft carrier'

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The view from a Ukrainian interceptor drone as it hunts a Russian drone.
A Russian Molniya drone.

Ministry of Defense of Ukraine/Screengrab via X

What a drone maker on NATO's front line says the West needs for future wars

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A small black object with small wings stands upright on a sandy groud with grass and trees in the background
Latvia's Origin Robotics is working with Ukraine and NATO militaries.

Janis Laizans/REUTERS

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