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Marines are rolling out new killer drones that cost just $700 each

The U.S. Marine Corps is quietly rewriting the economics of airpower, fielding a new generation of small attack drones that ...
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Pentagon taps 25 firms for small, cheap attack drone competition

The Pentagon eventually wants to field swarms of low-cost, one-way attack drones that cost just a few thousand dollars apiece.

West Coast Marines want to train 500 new drone pilots a year in a crash course on everything from flying to explosions

A new crash course is teaching Marines the ins and outs of drone warfare, from navigation in flight to explosive payloads.

Russia’s Cheap New Drone Is a Threat. Here’s How the U.S. Will Defend Itself.

Given the massive scale of Russian and Chinese strike drone production, the U.S. needs more interceptors in the price range of Sting and Surveyor to exceed strike drones in number and to enable ...

The new US Army drone course is teaching soldiers that drones aren't always the right weapon

Soldiers learn to pilot and attack with drones during the three-week course, as the US races to catch up on drone warfare.

Revealed: How Iran's cheap drones can shame US' billion dollar army | Khamenei, Trump, Shahed,Lincoln

An American F‑35C just shot down an Iranian Shahed drone near the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea — and the timing could not be more explosive. As war drums beat louder, Iran’s low‑cost, ...