The US Army's drone surge has limits. A commander says more tech isn't always better.

Tech Insider : Business, Environment, Technology
Two US Army soldiers walk on a red dirt road with lines of fresh and clouds in the background. The sky is blue.
Soldiers are adapting to the opportunities and challenges presented by drone warfare.

US Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Samuel Estridge

Miami Has a New Cop on the Beat: A Drone-Launching Police Car That Can Drive Itself

Gizmodo
Screen Shot 2025 10 17 At 10.57.26 Am

US Army soldiers put drones to the test in the Pacific. They struggled in the heat.

Tech Insider : Business, Environment, Technology
A close-up look at a black quadcopter drone sitting in the dirt.
TK

Staff Sgt. Brendan Delgado/25th Infantry Division

Russia's missiles and drones run on Western tech. Here's how it keeps getting the parts.

Tech Insider : Business, Economy, Technology
Dmytro Chubenko of the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office stands beside the remains of a Russian-made, Iran-designed Shahed-136 drone, known as a Geran-2 in Russia, with a cheap decoy known as a Gerbera, to the left, as the prosecutor's office maintains a collection of Russian drones, glide bombs, missiles and rockets launched at Ukraine as evidence for eventual war crimes prosecutions against Russia, on July 30, 2025 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Ukraine c

US general says the Army needs drones like the Shaheds Russia is slamming into Ukrainian cities

Tech Insider : Business, Environment, Style
A large black drone sits in a field beside 2 men who are holding. large white tarp
Russia's Shahed drones were among the Russian weaponry that Ukraine said it found foreign-made parts in

Ivan SAMOILOV / AFP

Ukraine's drone operators say they have to negotiate safe passage past friendly jammers, sometimes over group chat

Tech Insider : Business, Politics, Technology
A man in camoflage gear and a helmet stands holding a large grey drone with blue tape on it, with another man assisting, in tall grass and under a blue sky
Ukraine needs drones for its defense, but it needs to make sure its own electronic warfare doesn't get in its way.

Serhii Korovainyi/REUTERS

Russia is unleashing a new surge of exploding drone attacks on Ukraine's rail network

Tech Insider : Business, Economy
Firefighters work next to a passenger train hit by today's Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at the railway station in the town of Shostka, Sumy region, Ukraine October 4, 2025.
Russia has ramped up its attacks on Ukraine's rail network since August.

NATIONAL POLICE OF UKRAINE/via REUTERS

Backpack drones with lasers are taking a critical job from multimillion-dollar aircraft and protecting pilots in the process

Tech Insider : Business, Politics, Technology
A man in camoflage gear squats and takes a pale-colored drone out of a camoflage backpack, with a vehicle and another person behind him, all outdoors
PDW says its C100 drone is "packbackable," giving soldiers portable power.

Performance Drone Works

Amazon Delivery Drones Crash Into a Crane in Arizona, Feds Investigating

Gizmodo
Amazon Prime Air drones

NATO's building a 'Walmart' for bargain drone-killers cheaper than jets and missiles to counter Russia, top commander says

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
A French Rafale fighter jet takes off during a joint mission with Polish F16s at an air base in Minsk Mazowiecki on September 17, 2025.
A French fighter jet takes off from a Polish airbase in September.

THIBAUD MORITZ/AFP via Getty Images

Subscribe to Drones