It looks like jam-proof drones, a Ukraine war battlefield scourge, showed up at the US Navy's Silent Swarm exercise

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A small, black fiber-optic first-person view drone sits on rocks at a beach, with waves and a blue sky in the background.
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US Air National Guard photo by 1st. Lt. Elise Wahlstrom

China's catastrophic South China Sea crash shows how dangerous high-risk moves at sea can be

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A screenshot of a video showing a Chinese Navy vessel and Chinese Coast Guard vessel crashing into one another in the sea. The video is filming from a fishing boat. The sky is blue with some clouds in the background.
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Jay Tarriela, Philippine Coast Guard Spokesperson

A Ukrainian weapons maker is building a new unjammable drone with a 100-kilometer reach. It says 'the war has changed.'

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An FPV drone controlled via a fiber-optic cable flies during Ukrainian military training on January 29, 2025, in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
Fiber-optic drones have emerged as one of the deadliest threats on the battlefield in Ukraine.

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Ukraine says its forces bombed a Russian ship carrying Iranian ammo as it ramps up deep-strike operations

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The Port Olya 4 passes through the Suez Canal in Egypt.
The Russian cargo vessel Port Olya 4.

REUTERS/Catherine Cartier/File Photo

Russia improved its missiles. Now, Ukraine's Patriots are struggling to consistently shoot them down, defense intel says.

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A Patriot missile system fires at a live-fire missile range near Capu Midia, Romania, Jun. 19, 2019 during exercise Shabla 19.
The US Army is learning from watching how Ukraine uses its Patriot air defense systems.

Capt. Aaron Smith/174 Air Defense Artillery Brigade

A NATO drone maker is testing its weapons in Ukraine — with its CEO actually heading to the battlefield to see it firsthand

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Ukrainian servicemen who recently returned from the trenches of Bakhmut walk on a street in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 8, 2023.
Ukrainian servicemen who recently returned from the trenches of Bakhmut walk on a street in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine on March 8, 2023.

AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka

A $2,500 interceptor drone built to destroy Iranian Shaheds was recorded flying at the speed of a bullet train

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A Ukrainian holds the Sting, an interceptor drone created by the Wild Hornets.
Ukraine has seen limited use of interceptor drones to down the Shahed, but has in recent months been driving hard at development to counter Russia's growing drone waves.

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