"It allows drones to be operated beyond the pilot's visual line of sight, and it allows multiple drones to operate by one operator or pilot," McDanolds said.
These recent combat-proven innovations can flip the preexisting cost imbalance that inevitably arises when intercepting large numbers of relatively inexpensive drones.
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Dutch F-35 downs a decoy drone and NATO pays the cost-curve penalty
Perhaps the oldest, and longest-running, reminder of a contemporary air-defense issue is that a Dutch F-35A has added a drone ...
Russia continuously upgrades its Geran (Shahed) drones to beat Ukrainian defenses, but rising costs now exceed cheap ...
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10 drone swarms changing how modern air warfare is planned and fought
AI-powered drone swarms are rapidly reshaping the nature of air power, shifting military advantage ...
In 2023, Ukraine launched an estimated 10,000 drones per month; in 2025, this rose to 10,000 launches per day, marking a ...
Drone cameras can cost a pretty penny, depending on the model and features you’re after. Thankfully, that’s not the case today.
There’s a chance the dreaded buzz of propellers heard on Ukrainian battlefields is coming from drones built in a country with ...
Thermal imaging drones are no longer limited to military or industrial use. A YouTuber named Hoarder Sam demonstrates how a ...
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