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A police helicopter reported a near miss with a drone that was in fact a US jet fighter, a report said. The helicopter had been sent to the area around RAF Lakenheath, in Suffolk, last November following reports of unmanned aerial vehicles in the area. Continue reading
A modified Iranian-made Shahed-136 suicide drone reportedly featuring an onboard camera, a direct radio control system from Russia, and an artificial vision module has been discovered in Ukraine for the first time, according to military electronics expert Serhii Flesh, who released photos of the wreckage on June 19. Continue reading
Vladimir Putin’s helicopter was forced to shoot down drones while he was aboard, a Moscow official said on Sunday. The Russian president’s aircraft was involved in an “air defence battle” after an “unprecedented Ukrainian drone assault”, Maj Gen Yuri Dashkin, an air defence commander, told state television. Continue reading
An Amazon delivery drone made an unexpected crash landing Wednesday, coming down in the middle of an apartment complex in Tolleson, Arizona. Continue reading
On a (lightly) rainy December day at the company’s testing range in Oregon, not one but two Prime Air drones suddenly stopped spinning their propellers mid-flight and plummeted some 200 feet to the ground. The crashes, which destroyed both aircraft, happened within minutes of each other. Continue reading
– Shield AI’s V-BAT successfully participated in Project Convergence Capstone 5 (PC-C5), a Combined, Joint, and multinational experiment held at Fort Irwin, California, in March 2025. V-BAT operated as part of the 82nd Airborne Division’s missions in “The Box,” Fort Irwin’s famously demanding training area in the Mojave Desert. Continue reading
The cause behind a Heron reconnaissance drone crashing into a helicopter in South Korea last month was determined to be “a gust of wind,” military officials announced. Continue reading
A South Korean army helicopter was destroyed when an unmanned air vehicle crashed into it while attempting to land. The accident occurred on 17 March at an army base in Yangju, when the Israel Aerospace Industries Heron UAV crashed into a Korea Aerospace Industries KUH-1 Surion utility helicopter. Continue reading