David Hambling

David Hambling In 2024, the 13th Brigade of Ukraine's National Guard carried out the first ever robot-only assault, using a team of drones

Adding detachable wings to multicopter FPVs gives them greatly increased range for minimal cost and could deliver precision mid-range strikes at scale.

Solar-powered aircraft seem doomed to repeat the myth of Icarus, whose homemade wings melted when he flew too close to the sun.

Switch between CA and NY editions here. A decade or two ago, air travelers were right to worry that terrorists, emboldened after 9/11, might seek to take down airliners with shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles.

Conditions were against American forces facing the British at the Battle of Trois-Rivières

Defense budgets tend to be a mystery to outsiders. People know what reasonable price is for a car, a laptop or a fridge, but military hardware is another world.

An astonishing casual statement from President Putin has outraged Russian war commentators.

Uncrewed ground vehicles have already been tested for defending the front line by the Ukrainian military. Despite their limitations, these remotely controlled robots could be the deciding factor in many conflicts

Under US rules, even a distant strike can suspend a game – and some will take place in Florida, the thunderstorm state

Russian social media has been circulating images of a Ukrainian drone bomb which is square with a metal point like the ground spike for a fence post.