Recent incidents suggest a gap between advertised capability and operational performance for Beijing's defense industry's ...

The US and Iran are trading blows in the Gulf with a simple drone that costs as little as $50,000 to make. But why is a slow, ...

The U.S. Air Force is accelerating its wingman drone program. Updates on CCA names, software, weapons testing, and engines ...

Artificial intelligence plays no role yet in interception missions - today it is still manual ramming or close-in detonation.

As missiles and drones cross the region’s skies, the Gulf’s layered air-defense networks—from THAAD to Patriot batteries—are being tested in real time.

An anti-drone system developed by an American company and proven to work in Ukraine soon will head to the Middle East to help defend against Iranian drones.

Iran has launched waves of Shahed drones to menace Persian Gulf nations. The U.S. has unleashed its own copycat on Iran. It’s a sign of how war is changing.

The UK has dispatched four more Typhoon FGR4s, two Wildcat HMA2s, and a Merlin HM2 ASaC towards the Middle East to strengthen defences as U.S. strategic bombers begin to use UK bases for operations ...

Struck by the success of large-scale, low-cost drone attacks, the US made covert efforts to capture Iranian Shahed-136s for ...

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