The Department of Defense, seeing the tactics of warfare being redefined in Russia's war against Ukraine, understands the U.S. must evolve, strengthen and advance the American drone industrial base to keep up with the changing threats. The Threat Status team takes a deeper look at what the defense industry is doing to meet the demand to keep our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines equipped with the latest technology.
Jon Rambeau, president of the Integrated Mission Systems segment at L3Harris Technologies, speaks with National Security Editor Guy Taylor at the 2025 Reagan National Defense Forum about the global proliferation of cheaper, faster, and more deadly drones — and the U.S. defense industry’s push to develop more effective counter-drone systems for American military forces and their allies.
General Dynamics Land Systems wants to turn its M1 Abrams main battle tank into a rolling launcher of kamikaze drones.
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt on Tuesday inaugurated the country’s new federal police drone defense unit, which can be deployed across the country and “is equipped with the latest technology for smart drone defense.”
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s — well, it’s been a year since the drone sightings over New Jersey and we still don’t quite know what it was all about.
Global demand for arms in an increasingly fractious world and an alarmingly depleted U.S. stockpile of long-range weapons are driving a dramatic surge in the American defense industry’s production of rockets and missiles.
When Olena Horlova leaves home or drives through town outside the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, she fears that she’s a target. She believes that Russian drones could be waiting on a rooftop, along the road or aiming for her car.
A pattern has become disturbingly familiar across Europe over the past few months: a surge of mysterious drone activity over NATO territory.
The secretive “Replicator” drone program, established by the Biden administration within the Defense Department’s leading tech-industry collaboration unit to accelerate the acquisition and deployment of unmanned systems to U.S. warfighters, has a new home under the U.S. Special Operations Command.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has joined the advisory board of Ukraine’s leading defense company, renowned for its long-range drones capable of striking targets deep inside Russia, as a corruption investigation continues.
The Pentagon’s secretive Replicator program isn’t about drones, at least not entirely. If it was, it’s fallen short of its goal.
In a warehouse more than 900 miles from Ukraine’s capital, workers in northern Denmark painstakingly piece together anti-drone devices. Some of the devices will be exported to Kyiv in the hopes of jamming Russian technology on the battlefield, while others will be shipped across Europe in efforts to combat mysterious drone intrusions into NATO’s airspace that have the entire continent on edge.
Ukrainian forces have made global headlines since 2022 by turning commercial products such as off-the-shelf consumer drones into weaponry and battlefield equipment to gain an edge over the conventional military hardware of Russian invaders.
This is Guillaume Ptak. And today we are taking a look at how AI is revolutionizing the modern battlefield, both in Ukraine and in future wars.
Flights at Belgium’s main international airport remained disrupted on Wednesday after drone sightings overnight forced it to close temporarily, and Prime Minister Bart De Wever called a meeting with senior ministers to discuss safety concerns.
More than three years into Russia’s brutal invasion of its neighbor, the war raging on Ukraine’s eastern plains is increasingly being fought by machines.
Russia has conducted a successful test of a new atomic-powered and nuclear-capable underwater drone, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday, declaring that the new weapon can’t be intercepted.
The Threat Status team takes a deeper look at what the defense industry is doing to meet the demand to keep our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines equipped with the latest technology.
Israel accused U.N. peacekeeping troops in Lebanon of shooting down on Sunday one of its drones that was conducting “routine intelligence gathering” near the border town of Kfar Kila.
ILSAN, South Korea — A dramatic, viral clip of a “near-death” moment has become one of the most chilling pieces of footage to emerge from the Ukraine War.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, pushing relentlessly for a macho, muscular military, might be nonplussed to hear that some of Ukraine’s deadliest warriors don’t sport the Spartan physiques of elite commandos.
Ukraine’s state security service has unveiled an upgraded sea drone it says can now operate anywhere in the Black Sea, carry heavier weapons and use artificial intelligence for targeting.
Current communication systems relied upon by U.S. war fighters are too “old” and “outdated,” according to Secretary of the Army Daniel P. Driscoll, who says a concerted push is underway to accelerate private industry’s delivery of advanced technology and the Army’s acquisition process.
Drones have revolutionized the battlefield, offering combatants like Ukraine a cost-effective platform to conduct surveillance operations or swarm an enemy position with reduced human risk.
The Threat Status team from The Washington Times goes behind the scenes of AUSA 2025, exploring the themes and the tone being set for tech advancements in the U.S. military.
New self-destructing drones, developed by U.S. and Israeli military contractors, will soon be in the hands of Army soldiers.
Guy Taylor, National Security Editor with Threat Status at the Washington Times and John T. Seward, lead NATSEC Tech correspondent at Threat Status, with the themes they see across the 2025 AUSA conference.
Army Lt. Gen. Chris Mohan, the deputy commanding general and acting commander of Army Materiel Command, explains how the Army plans to use 3D printing to manufacture drone bodies and print drone replacement components near the battlefield. From the floor of the Association of the United States Army convention in Washington.
It’s an urgent mission for the Pentagon and its defense industry partners: Build cost-effective tools — lots of them — to counter the increasingly cheap and lethal tactical attack drones wielded by America’s adversaries abroad or terrorists targeting events at home.
Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll slammed the defense acquisition system on Monday, saying it prioritizes the desires of government bureaucrats and defense lobbyists over the needs of the American soldier.
German federal police may soon have the power to shoot down drones violating the country’s airspace following a string of drone incursions across Europe that have raised questions about the region’s ability to defend itself.
Drones are increasingly prominent features of modern warfare, both expendable and hard to detect.
At the Lviv Arena stadium last month, the buzz of drones competed with the din of investor chatter.
Technological advances like unmanned aerial vehicles and artificial intelligence have changed modern combat, but ground troops are still crucial in warfare, according to the top executive from a key Israeli defense company.
It’s no longer a given that the U.S. and its allies will control the skies with ease in conflict. In the 21st century, gaining and maintaining air superiority will require a combination of cutting-edge tactical drones, surveillance aircraft powered by artificial intelligence, multimillion-dollar fighter jets and stealth bombers.
Tomer Malchi, founder and CEO of the Israel-based company Asio, joins the show to discuss soldier-borne technology, 21st-century combat, drones, and much more.
From directed energy weapons to cutting-edge electronic warfare and new computerized fire control systems that improve the effectiveness of a soldier’s AR-15 rifle, the global defense industry is developing new, creative and affordable ways to combat the small attack drones that have revolutionized modern warfare.
Guy Taylor and Ben Wolfgang discuss the latest tech, companies, and collaborations at AFA 2025 in National Harbor, MD.
Wesley Sparks, Director of Business Development at Honeywell explains how the company aims to provide power, thermal management, and energy storage for directed-energy weapons. From the floor of AFA 2025 in National Harbor, MD.
President Trump adopted a new policy for aggressively developing advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence and quantum communications, according to a White House memorandum sent to all federal agencies on Monday.
Russia said that it shot down three dozen Ukrainian drones heading toward Moscow while Ukraine said that Russian missiles, drones and bombs killed at least two civilians, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy persevered with efforts to bolster international support for his country at a U.N. gathering of world leaders on Tuesday.
Several unidentified drones shut down airspace over Copenhagen Airport on Monday night, prompting concerns that Russia could be behind the flyover above Scandinavia’s largest airport.
Russia and Ukraine swapped accusations of deadly drone strikes on civilian areas of their countries Monday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy anticipated “a very intense week” of diplomacy at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, where the Security Council was expected to discuss the more than three-year war.
On a battlefield swarming with deadly Russian drones, Ukrainian soldiers are increasingly turning to nimble, remote-controlled armored vehicles that can perform an array of tasks and spare troops from potentially life-threatening missions.
Key leaders from across the U.S. military and defense industry will gather next week just outside Washington to help cement America’s “decisive edge” over its adversaries in the air, space and cyber domains, at a moment when growing threats and raging conflicts around the world are colliding with unprecedented leaps forward in technology.
