The Air Force is in the market for upgrades to its counter-drone technologies, according to an Oct. 16 request for information posted on a federal contracting website.
The service is in the early stages of deploying lasers, microwaves, and other weapons more advanced than a shotgun to deal with potentially threatening drones loitering around bases. In particular, the RFI is looking for ideas to fend off the smallest unmanned aerial systems like quadcopters.
Heron Systems is looking to get its artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms on autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) after winning the United States Defense...
Pro-Kurdish sources have been circulating a new propaganda video supposedly showcasing attacks on the Turkish Army in northern Iraq and in southern Turkey. While the video itself is assembled from several pieces showing different locations and time and is in fact a propaganda piece rather than the actual footage of recent clashes, it demonstrates an important trend: the increasing usage of DIY-combat drones by non-state actors in the Middle East.