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The war between Russia and Ukraine is the first drone war. Not the first war in which drones have been used (that was arguably WWII), but the first war in which drones may have accounted for the most significant proportion of casualties. Defense against drones is an imperative, and many different approaches are being tried.One approach this correspondent has considered is using Tungsten Super Shot (TSS) in ordinary shotguns. On one forum, a commenter stated a Ukrainian soldier had obtained a Keltec KS7 to use for drone defense. Shotguns have obvious utility for close-in drone defense against small-sized drones. Many...

Palmer Luckey's Anduril just gave the world an inside glimpse of its new project for the US Air Force — an uncrewed fighter jet that teams up with piloted aircraft. The military startup was featured on Sunday in a CBS 60 Minutes segment, during which a few clips showed Anduril's Fury drone being assembled in a hangar or warehouse. It's not the first time the drone was shown to the public — the Air Force unveiled a test representative model on May 1. But the TV segment reveals a few more details about the drone's make. In one clip, two...

A UFO that struck and damaged a US fighter jet is just one of a swarm of mystery objects buzzing around Air Force training ranges in Arizona, according to multiple reports. One of the unidentified flying objects hit the clear bubble “canopy” over the head of a pilot in a $63 million F-16 Viper jet in January 2023, damaging it and temporarily grounding the plane, according to Federal Aviation Administration documents first reported by the War Zone. The military jet was struck midair by “an orange-white UAS,” or “uncrewed aerial system,” the FAA documents said. The term refers to drones....

Hunter Biden flew to Moscow for a meeting with a now-sanctioned Russian oligarch with reportedly close ties to Vladimir Putin, laptop files reveal. Vladimir Yevtushenkov, 73, owns a company which reportedly supplied Putin's forces with drones used for deadly bombing raids in Ukraine and until last year owned key Russian defense contractor RTI. But while he was added to the UK and Australian sanctions lists this month but remains one of a handful of oligarchs unsanctioned by the Biden administration. Hunter's multiple meetings and apparent business deals with him are the latest in a troubling web of his connections to...

A couple feet long, rounded, relatively lightweight, and easy to make, this exploding drone can fly fast and attaches to a rucksack.That's the basics of Hellhound, a loitering munition made by Cummings Aerospace based in Huntsville, Alabama. This kind of weapon features characteristics of both missiles and drones, delivering surveillance and strike in a single package.The Hellhoud recently completed flight tests and a few demonstrations before being submitted to a top US Army drone competition. Earlier in the year, it was tested in the Army's Expeditionary Warrior Experiment 2025.Loitering munitions are becoming more prolific and playing a role in conflicts...

The United States is ready to go "all in" on sanctions against Russia, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared, signaling the administration's readiness to impose even harsher measures to pressure Moscow into peace negotiations. -snip- Bessent was critical of former US President Joe Biden's sanctions approach, describing them as "egregiously weak," particularly when it came to Russian energy. He argued that the weakness in these sanctions allowed Russia's military operations to continue, largely because of concerns about rising energy prices in the US. "A major factor that has enabled the Russian war machine's continued financing was the Biden administration's egregiously...

According to reports, members of the Ikitu tribe in a rural Peruvian district believe that they have been attacked by 7ft-tall 'aliens' that they have dubbed 'Los Pelacaras' or 'the face peelers'. Described as having large heads and yellow eyes, these mysterious assailants are said to be invulnerable to weapons and have been linked to attacks on multiple villagers. One victim - a 15-year-old girl - even ended in hospital. Some of the locals have now taken to conducting night patrols and there have been calls for the military to get involved before someone is seriously hurt, or worse We...

Moscow closed all four of its main airports for several hours into Tuesday after state media reported the military had shot down 105 Ukrainian drones overnight. Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, said that at least 19 drones were destroyed on their way to the capital as it prepares for Victory Day celebrations this week. Debris fell on a major avenue in the city's south without causing injuries, Sobyanin wrote on Telegram. Governors in other Russian cities, including Penza and Voronezh, said they had also been targeted by Ukrainian drones. It was the second night in a row that Russia...

Russia says Ukraine has launched an overnight drone attack targeting Moscow for the second night in a row. All four of the capital's major airports have been closed temporarily to ensure safety, Russia's aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said on Telegram. Moscow's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said on social media at least 19 Ukrainian drones had been destroyed before they reached the city "from different directions". He said some of the debris had landed on one of the key highways into the city, but there were no casualties. Ukraine has not yet commented on the reports

Aformer intelligence official is calling on the federal government to make information public about an alleged reverse-engineering project involving unidentified flying objects (UFOs). UFO sightings have long piqued the interests of billions of people across the globe for centuries. Although these sightings are oftentimes easily explained—at times being space objects such as meteors or military equipment—they often lead many to ponder the potential of extraterrestrial life. Recent years have seen renewed focus on UFOs, with many calling for more transparency from the U.S. government about these sightings. Christopher Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Intelligence who specializes...

An unmanned Ukrainian sea drone shot down a Russian SU-30 fighter jet near the port of Novorossiysk - home to the Kremlin's Black Sea Fleet. The downing of the £38 million jet was carried out by Group 13 on May 2, a special unit within Ukraine's military intelligence. The sea drone was reported to be equipped with a R-73 air-to-air missile, which struck the jet in midair. The SU-30 crashed into the sea. Reports suggest that the crew were able to eject from the stricken jet and were later picked up by a civilian cargo ship. In a statement confirming...

Citing the hundreds of drones that flew around military sites last year, defense officials warn that the Pentagon is still unprepared to defend its installations—but say a new standard operating procedure, and expanded authorities, could help. “Mass drone incursions over Joint Base Langley-Eustis in December 2023 reminded us that the homeland is no longer a sanctuary, and should our adversary choose to employ drones for surveillance or even attack, we would not be prepared to adequately defend our homeland and only marginally capable to defend our military installations,” Rear Adm. Paul Spedero, vice director for operations for the Joint Staff,...

A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists bound for Gaza was bombed by drones while in international waters off Malta overnight Thursday-Friday, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, a pro-Palestinian activist group, said. The Saudi Al Arabiya news channel, citing a Western security source, reported that the convoy was organized by Hamas and that those onboard planned to engage with IDF troops as they approached the Gaza shore. The group uploaded video footage on social media ostensibly showing a fire on one of its ships. The footage could not be independently verified. A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists bound for Gaza...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson Criminal aliens at a Texas detention center spelled out "SOS" as a Reuters drone passed overhead. How’d they know it was coming? How was it so perfectly executed? Sure looks staged.... From Collin Rugg 4:47 PM · Apr 30, 2025

According to a Space Force press release, which went out on May 6, another payload aboard the X-37B will be an experimental system designed by the Naval Research Laboratory that is capable of capturing solar power and beaming that energy back to Earth in the form of microwaves. Naval Research Laboratory’s head of beamed power has explicitly stated in the past that this system has enormous implications when it comes to long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In addition, it could allow satellites to provide reliable power anywhere on the planet or even to spacecraft or other satellites in orbit. In...

Hellscape manifested publicly in the recent sale of more than 1,000 of Anduril’s Altius-600M and AeroVironment’s Switchblade-300 drones to Taiwan.3 While this is a logical first step—and understanding that much of the United States’ and Taiwan’s deterrent planning will not be found in the public sphere—lessons from Ukraine suggest a stockpile of high-end U.S. unmanned aerial systems (UASs) alone will be insufficient to darken the Taiwan Strait for a month.,P. First, planners must reckon that 1,000 drones is not a lot. Across Ukraine’s 600-mile front line, where an actual Hellscape of unmanned systems has been brought into existence, Ukrainian forces...

An Austin-based tech company is pitching lawmakers on a drone defense system designed to disrupt school shootings in under a minute without using deadly force. Justin Marston, CEO and founder of Campus Guardian Angel, said the system is modeled after tactics used in modern warfare, particularly the war in Ukraine. “I came up with the idea watching the war in Ukraine and how successful small, low-cost drones were against people with guns,” Marston said. “They were able to get to those folks no matter how many times they were firing at them. So it really gave us the idea, if...

Italian soldiers with anti-drone rifles in Rome, Vaticanoi, for fear Islamist attacks. Because of Islam we are forced to live in fear.

Federal authorities allege a Wisconsin teen murdered his parents in order to “obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary” to assassinate President Donald Trump. According to Waukesha County authorities,17-year-old Nikita Casap was previously arrested in March on two counts of first-degree murder, along with two counts of hiding a corpse. Casap is also being charged with theft of property amounting to over $10,000 and the misappropriate of identification to obtain money. Casap’s stepfather, 51-year-old Donald Mayer, and his mother, 35-year-old Tatiana Casap, were found dead in their home on March 1st by the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department. After the discovery,...

A child murdered his mother and stepfather at the family's stunning $900,000 home because he thought it would help give him 'clout' to kill Donald Trump. Nikita Casap, 17, was arrested in March after he allegedly killed his parents at their home in Waukesha, Wisconsin, then fled the state in their car. Prosecutors said the teenager shot and killed mom Tatiana Casap, 35, and stepdad Donald Mayer, 51, on February 11 before fleeing the scene and leaving their bodies to decompose inside their home. However, they were not discovered until police performed a welfare check at the family's sprawling home...