Watch as a team of drones destroys their target in a demonstration of Fury. That is, the Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator by Scout AI that uses proprietary AI software to carry out autonomous combat based on simple verbal orders from a human.

Elon Musk’s vision of AI-controlled drone swarms is moving from rhetoric to reality as his companies pursue Pentagon contracts and the U.S. government accelerates its push for cheap, mass-produced autonomous weapons.

U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said the service will soon launch a soldier-led marketplace to market drone innovations alongside private industry.

The event is in line with service plans to incorporate unmanned technology at every echelon of the force.

From an investment perspective, the global military drone market is on a strong upward trajectory, driven by rising defense budgets, geopolitical instability, and rapid technological innovation. According to recent industry forecasts,

First person view drones are steadily changing the nature of warfare for military forces around the globe. Fielded en masse for the first time on the battlefields of Ukraine, FPV drones are categorized as small Unmanned Aircraft Systems and often take the ...

Military drones did not just add another tool to the battlefield, they changed who can see, strike, and survive in modern war. From mass-market systems to bespoke loitering munitions, these aircraft have reshaped everything from artillery duels in Ukraine ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. Ukrainian servicemen of the 22nd Brigade launch a Leleka reconnaissance UAV drone near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, on ...

In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia Macdonald argue, based on their research interviewing U.S. ground troops, that troops prefer close air support from inhabited (“manned”) rather than uninhabited (“unmanned ...

Unseen combat footage from the Russia–Ukraine war reveals the brutal reality of modern drone warfare. Ukrainian aerial units track and pursue fleeing Russian forces from above, turning open terrain into a deadly trap.