Air defense used to revolve around one basic problem: stopping enemy aircraft and missiles ...

A small experimental drone rises from its launcher, its batteries and circuit board plainly visible. Then its body begins whipping around as many as 25 times a second. The parts dissolve into pale ...

Traditional procurement, slowed by bureaucratic hurdles and long timelines, isn't built for a landscape that moves quite fast ...

For years, the U.S. military has been fielding small drones equipped with cameras that let troops see, for instance, over nearby hills or inside treelines. Now, though, the U.S. is trying to catch up ...

Drones are increasingly forming the frontline in recent wars, but can these unmanned assets replace their traditional counterparts entirely?

In the wars in both Ukraine and Iran, one-way attack drones have changed the battlefield. So the Pentagon is thinking cheaper and smaller. Jay Price of North Carolina Public Radio reports. (SOUNDBITE ...