Russian drone attack injures 14
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Russian air defenses shot down over 300 Ukrainian drones over 10 Russian regions overnight, military officials said Tuesday, in what appeared to be the biggest Ukrainian drone attack on Russia in the three-year war.
In a September exercise on a Florida airfield, members of the 10th Special Forces Group launched a drone assault that mirrored the “ spiderweb ” attack that Ukraine had recently staged against Russia. The defenders were counter-drone troops from across the U.S. military, trained for a week on tech that the Pentagon has spent billions to develop.
Nowhere is this variation more consequential than in the category of one-way attack drones: systems designed not to return home like an airplane, but to fly directly into a target and destroy it, like a bullet or a missile.
A Russian liquefied natural gas tanker limped across the Mediterranean after a suspected Ukrainian drone strike ripped into its hull, leaving the vessel disabled, venting gas, and drifting without
Israel’s military said one of its soldiers was killed and five others wounded, three seriously, in a Hezbollah drone strike in southern Lebanon on Sunday, as Israel and Hezbollah expand attacks amid a formal cease-fire between the two countries.
Recent drone attacks on Chernobyl have raised alarms about nuclear safety amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, reviving memories of the catastrophic 1986 disaster and highlighting the vulnerabilities of nuclear facilities.
The U.S. Marine Corps seeks a lightweight OPF-M loitering munition to strike armored targets at 15 miles with autonomous tracking.
Kuwait’s Ministry of Defense said two northern land border posts were targeted in a drone attack that caused material damage but no casualties or injuries. A ministry spokesperson, Col. Saud Abdulaziz Al-Atwan,