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Drones

  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    News in-depth
    China’s ‘loyal wingman’ drones open new front in competition with US

    Aircraft designed to accompany crewed stealth jets could help Beijing challenge American air superiority

    China’s Feihong FH-97A, a ‘loyal wingman’ drone designed to accompany crewed aircraft, on display at Zhuhai air show in China
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    Concern grows over mysterious drone sightings along US east coast

    Federal authorities move to quell disquiet over aerial phenomena

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    Rheinmetall joins forces with US software specialist on drone development

    German defence group plans to integrate its unmanned aerial vehicles with operating system developed by Auterion

    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz looks at a Rheinmetall drone at the 2024 ILA Berlin Air Show on June 5 2024 in Schönefeld, Germany
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Lex
    Lift-off beckons for drone start-ups  Premium content

    Savvy newcomers can overcome challenges with the right tech and credibility with government stakeholders

    Helsing’s HX-2 drone
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Visual investigation
    Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones

    Southern Ukrainian city of Kherson hit more than 9,500 times as Moscow attempts to drive out residents

    A collage of photos showing Russian drone targets and a man in a hospital bed who has lost part of his leg
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Military technology
    European AI specialist Helsing unveils attack drone

    Company says it can produce tens of thousands of weapons a year at lower cost than current autonomous systems

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  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
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    The geopolitics of chips: Taiwan’s ‘Silicon Shield’

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  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
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    Should the US ban Chinese drones?

    The best-selling drones in the US are made by DJI in China - some Republican lawmakers plan to ban them

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  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    US-China relations
    Chinese sanctions hit US drone maker supplying Ukraine

    Beijing’s move leaves California company rushing to find new battery providers

    A hand reaches out to hold the Skydio X10 drone, which is equipped with bright lights and is flying autonomously
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Visual investigation
    ‘All the evil’: doctors in the line of fire in world’s forgotten war

    Sudan’s brutal civil war is taking a devastating toll on the country’s health facilities

  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    Military technology
    Defence groups bet big on drone-destroying laser weapons

    Leading contractors, including RTX in the US, the UK’s QinetiQ, and Europe’s MBDA, are investing heavily in the technology

    Montage of  military drones and Dragonfire energy weapon
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine weighs lifting arms export ban to scale up drone industry

    Country’s manufacturers could generate up to $20bn from sales abroad and boost domestic production for army

    Ukrainian soldiers prepare FPV exploding drone
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Sketches of the war in Ukraine: dispatch from the Russian border

    In the latest part of his visual diary, artist Sergiy Maidukov captures the weeks before a dramatic incursion

  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    US and Taiwan seek to strengthen drone supply chain to keep out China

    Co-operation would be part of wider western ‘de-risking’ because of security fears over Chinese products

    A soldier stands next to the AeroVironment Switchblade drone
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Woman killed in Moscow suburb in Ukrainian drone attack

    Russia closed three of the capital’s international airports and said it intercepted 144 drones across the country

    A law enforcement officer stands guard near a damaged multi-storey residential building following a drone attack in Moscow on Tuesday
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Israel
    Hizbollah drone footage highlights Israeli security vulnerabilities

    Militants able to capture detailed images of Israeli air base close to Lebanon border

    Drone footage released by Hizbollah of Israel’s Ramat David air base
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    The age of drone warfare is disrupting the defence industry

    Rapidly evolving technology designed by smaller players is challenging the dominance of sluggish industry giants

    Ukrainian military check a drone near the front line in the Donetsk region
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Chinese trade body seeks drone jammers for Russian buyers

    Procurement notice follows concern in US and Europe over China’s sale of dual-use goods to Moscow

    Russian security council deputy chair Dmitry Medvedev visits a military training ground on Monday
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Tech Tonic podcast26 min listen
    China's race to tech supremacy: Shenzhen speed

    How the city of Shenzhen is helping China win the global tech race

  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    Chinese flying taxi sector claims global lead thanks to regulatory support

    Shanghai’s AutoFlight wins approval for unmanned aircraft in nascent market forecast to be worth $1.5tn a year by 2040

    unmanned flying taxi
  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine strikes Russian drone factory 1,300km from border

    A dozen people injured in attack, which also hit country’s third-largest oil refinery

    A view of a building after being damaged during a Ukrainian drone attack in Tatarstan, Russia, on April 2 2024
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    US urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries

    Washington told Kyiv that drone attacks risk driving up crude prices and provoking retaliation

    Ukraine’s SBU drone strikes a refinery in Ryazan
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine says it has destroyed Russian ship in Black Sea

    Landing vessel Cesar Kunikov is latest vessel to be hit by sea drones near Crimea

    Russia’s landing ship the Cesar Kunikov during a parade in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Tech start-ups
    Toyota home ground becomes base for drone and space start-ups

    Aichi prefecture seeks to develop future forms of transport as next driver of region’s industrial growth

  • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
    Lex
    Drone delivery may be cheap but it doesn’t fly with the public Premium content

    In the US, concerns about accidents, noise and interference with other aircraft outweigh interest in convenience

    A Wing drone delivers a package at a customer’s home in Christiansburg, Virginia
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