Tanner Yackley, a former drone sensor operator with the US Air Force, spent years flying remote combat missions, tracking targets, and executing high-stakes strikes — all from a windowless room ...

From an Army base in the Arizona desert, analysts used an MQ-9 Predator B drone with AI-powered radar to hunt migrants crossing the border. These types of drones, once used in wartime, have emerged as ...

Author Mark Bowden writes in our 101 Objects Special Issue: Though unmanned, remote-controlled drones had been used in times of war since World War II, they were revolutionized in 1995. The Gnat, ...

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There’s a great line from the “Fallout” games, repeated over and over in the series: “War. War never changes.” That, of course, is true in some ways, in that war is always brutal and damaging and ...

A new JADC2 demonstration shows how a single operator can command and control multiple classes of uncrewed aircraft at the same time.

The Federal Aviation Administration proposed a rule change in August to open the skies to more drone flights beyond the sight of operators, seeking to replace the current cumbersome system of ...

Tanner Yackley, a former drone sensor operator with the US Air Force, spent years flying remote combat missions, tracking targets, and executing high-stakes strikes — all from a windowless room ...