The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country.

As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous killing machines.

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump wants to counter the threats drones pose to national security under new rules released Friday, while also aiming to make it possible for Americans to fly faster than the speed of sound and expedite the development of ...

We're way past the moment when autonomous military drones showed promise but didn't really have tangible results to be proud of. That is rapidly changing, and the world is only now beginning to get a sense of what the future of aerial warfare will look like.

Turkey’s Baykar claims to have scored an aviation first with its Kizilelma unmanned air combat vehicle (UCAV) shooting down a target drone with a beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air missile. A video posted online shows the Kizilelma taking off with a ...

Meanwhile Russia initially produced its own drones after briefly using imported Iranian Shahed-136 drones that cost over $100,000 each. Ukraine demonstrated that you could design and build drones with similar capabilities at less than a tenth of that.

While military forces around the world scramble to develop and deploy new drone tech, the U.S. Navy performed an important first-time test in mid-December.

The Ghost Bat was controlled from aboard an RAAF E-7A Wedgetail and received targeting data from an F/A-18F Super Hornet before firing the AIM-120. Boeing Defence Australia announced on Dec. 9, 2025 the first live-fire test of an AIM-120 AMRAAM (Advanced ...

Three drones struck a cafe and hotel in the resort town of Khorly on the Black Sea coast, the region’s Moscow-installed leader Vladimir Saldo said in a statement on Telegram.