This is what Iran's drones and missiles look like up close

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Iran attacked the Erbil region in northern Iraq over 400 times during its war with the US and Israel. WELT's Chief Correspondent Ibrahim Naber got exclusive access to the wreckage of Iranian weapons used to strike the Kurdistan region.

Iran's arsenal still has teeth. US intelligence says it still has thousands of missiles and drones.

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Iran's domestically built missiles and satellite carriers are displayed in a permanent exhibition at a recreational area in northern Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 24, 2026.
Iranian missiles on display in Tehran last month.

AP Photo/Vahid Salemi

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

Marines say the best attack drone pilots might be dirt bikers, not gamers

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A Marine with 1st Marine Division handles a Parrot Amari AI drone during a training exercise in Singapore, March 26, 2025.
A Marine with 1st Marine Division handles a Parrot Amari AI drone during a training exercise in Singapore, March 26, 2025.

Cpl. Tyler Wilson/US Marine Corps

Ukraine didn't just bring interceptor drone know-how to the Middle East. Zelenskyy says it shot down Iranian Shaheds.

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A figure in camouflage stands with their back to the camera in a field holding a silver and khaki intercetor drone in the air with one hand
A host of Ukrainian companies have developed interceptor drones, and Ukriane's president said such drones were successfully used in the Middle East.

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Drones are key to protecting the Arctic where humans can't, but getting them to work in the cold is a challenge

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A man in camouflage and a fluffy hat kneels working on a large drone in the snow
Drones have big advantages in the huge and largely empty Arctic, but the cold also makes them hard to operate.

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NATO ignored the drone threat, and now it's scrambling to learn new ways of war, top commander says

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A Shahed-136 drone.
Iranian-designed Shahed drones have been used extensively in the Middle East and Ukraine in recent years.

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AirHub raises €4.4M from Keen Venture Partners to scale drone operations software

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The Dutch company, founded in 2016, has grown from a €1M seed in 2024 to a €4.4M follow-on as government and security operators accelerate drone fleet deployments across Europe and the Middle East. AirHub, a Dutch drone operations software company, has raised €4.4M in a new round led by Keen Venture Partners. The company’s software is […]

Joby and Air Space Intelligence team up to manage US electric air taxi skies

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In short: Joby Aviation and Air Space Intelligence have announced a partnership to integrate AI-driven airspace management into U.S. electric air taxi operations, using ASI’s Flyways AI platform to model high-density eVTOL traffic before commercial flights begin later this year. The electric air taxi race has long centred on the aircraft itself: wing count, battery range, […]

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.

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