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Drones

  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Russian missiles and drones pound Ukraine’s capital ahead of Rome summit

    Attack lasting nearly 10 hours comes as Kyiv’s allies prepare to meet in Italy on Thursday to discuss funding reconstruction

    2 hours ago
    Rescue workers put out a fire in a residential property heavily damaged during Russia’s attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday
  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Aerospace & Defence
    Europe just years away from uncrewed fighter jets, says defence start-up Helsing

    AI company allowed its software to take control of a Gripen E fighter jet over the Baltic Sea in two test flights

    A Swedish air force Jas 39 Gripen E jet fighter flies over Gotland island in the Baltic Sea on May 11 2022
  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Russia hits Ukraine with biggest air attack of the war

    Assault marks sharp escalation in campaign, as Zelenskyy calls for more western help with defence systems

    Firefighters working at a site of a Russian attack in the city of Smila, Cherkasy
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    How war became contagious

    With peaceful norms fading, a new weapon has made conflict cheaper and easier 

    White dove with olive branch flying among a swarm of dark drones in the sky
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Taiwan
    Taiwan develops suicide drones akin to Ukraine’s to defend against China

    Autonomous weapons have same operating and AI strike systems used to target Russian tanks and oil rig

    An Overkill attack drone
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    #techAsia
    High-priced drones and Japan’s hidden AI champion Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    A drone flying near a building
  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
    LexMilitary technology
    Defence tech spies an opportunity in global crisis Premium content

    To stay on track, companies in the sector need to secure supply chains, gain access to finance and get their hands dirty

    An Anvil-M drone at Anduril’s headquarters in California
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    News in-depth
    China made millions of drones. Now it has to find uses for them

    Authorities bet ‘low-altitude economy’ will be next driver of growth

    A Meituan food delivery drone in flight in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China in May 2025
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    Anduril teams up with Rheinmetall to develop drones for Europe

    US companies are seeking to use their technological expertise to benefit from rising defence spending in the region 

    Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, disassembles the Anduril Ghost autonomous drone
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Russian missile and drone attack kills at least 14 in Kyiv

    Deadliest strike in Ukrainian capital since July 2024 while other cities are also targeted

    Ukrainian rescuers search a heavily damaged residential building following the Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine on June 17 2025
  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    OutlookRaya Jalabi
    Lebanon beneath the drones

    The exasperating, frightening noise is a reminder that despite the ceasefire, a kind of war continues

  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    News in-depthUkraine military briefing
    How AI guided Ukraine’s drones to hit Russian airfields

    Artificial intelligence took over the steering of unmanned quadcopters after losing signal

    Ukrainian drone operator; footage and satellite imagery of Spiderweb attacks
  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    Chinese drone parts prices double as export controls bite

    Beijing severely limits shipments of critical components dominated by country’s suppliers

    Two drones hover in the evening sky, illuminated by their navigation lights, against a backdrop of a fading sunset
  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Renault asked by French government to make drones in Ukraine

    Paris approaches carmaker and defence businesses with plan to establish ‘completely unprecedented partnership’

    Ukrainian soldiers hold an FPV drone during military training
  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
    Business InsightRichard Milne
    Europe has to back its new defence start-ups

    Cheaper and quicker-to-produce weapons are needed to deter Russia and other threats

    A Ukrainian soldier with a drone and remote controller during training
  • Tuesday, 3 June, 2025
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    ‘An epic failure’: Russia reels from surprise Ukrainian attack on bomber fleet

    Audacious drone raid threatens Moscow’s military operations and exposes vulnerability deep within its territory

    Satellite picture taken on May 20 showing Tupolev Tu-160 bombers at Belaya air base in the Usolsky district of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    FT GuidesRobotics, cobots and automation
    Ukraine’s ‘drone war’ hastens development of autonomous weapons

    Artificial intelligence means machines can operate even when communications are blocked, but there are ethical concerns

    Military drone HX-2 displayed in a dark, high-tech room with ambient lighting
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    News in-depthSudan
    Military briefing: the foreign drones that turned Sudan’s civil war

    Influx of weapons believed to have come from China, Turkey and the UAE has escalated the ruinous conflict

    General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, a Serbian Chinese made CH-95 drone; satellite image shows smoke rising from burning oil tanks in Port Sudan, Sudan May 6, 2025
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Europe needs smart rearmament

    Nato must develop a nimbler technological edge than during the cold war

    Ukrainian Army carry a Vampire hexacopter drone
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    News in-depthTurkey
    Military briefing: How Turkey became vital to European security

    Trump’s reset of US alliances and Russian threats cement Nato power’s role as ‘country condemned to strategic significance’

    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says ‘European security cannot be thought of without Turkey’
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Helsing
    German defence start-up plans underwater drones for naval surveillance

    European group aims to capitalise on western countries’ interest in reconnaissance capabilities

    Lura Helsing underwater unmanned submarine drone
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    The Ukrainian drone pioneer racing Russia’s military machine

    Oleksandr Yakovenko, one of Ukraine’s top drone manufacturers, on the challenges of the high-tech war and of keeping one step ahead of the Russians

    A Ukrainian serviceman operates a reconnaissance drone
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    India-Pakistan tensions
    Pakistani drone attacks ‘neutralised’, says India, as skirmishes escalate

    New Delhi also claims its forces knocked out air defence system in Lahore

    Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand guard as investigators collect pieces of a suspected Indian drone in Karachi
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Capital flies into Europe’s defence drone start-ups

    Quantum Systems and Tekever each valued at more than €1bn in latest fundraisings

    Tekever’s AR3 drone
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Military technology
    UK military prevented from flying drones over soldiers’ heads

    Overly cautious regulations and data protection guidelines are curtailing exercises, MPs warn

    A Welsh soldier at a training camp in Germany
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