Science & Tech

Air Force debuts pilotless cargo flights in the Pacific

The service incorporated remotely-operated flights into its massive REFORPAC exercise as it aims to make cargo flights cheaper.

Science & Tech

Defense One Radio, Ep. 192: Alpine Eagle's Jan-Hendrik Boelens

A Munich-based developer with a new air-to-air counter-drone system shares insights into Europe's growing defense industry and recent lessons from Russia's Ukraine invasion.

Defense Systems

Pentagon stands up new task force to coordinate anti-drone efforts

The Army will be in charge of the outfit, which will replace the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office.

Defense Systems

How many drones does it take to replace a destroyer?

Fresh off a summer of testing robotic boats, the Navy's Task Force 66 wants to turn lessons into metrics.

Science & Tech

The Pentagon plan to Americanize drone warfare

At drone experiment outside Indianapolis, various elements came together to reveal the way forward.

Defense Systems

The Army is equipping its Black Hawks to launch drones

But how long will the venerable rotorcraft keep its central role as the service transforms?

Business

Leidos takes aim at maritime autonomy

The company wants to make waves in the surface and undersea drone markets amongst startup competitors.