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HMS Trent (P224) entering Portsmouth for the first time, December 2019.

Royal Navy drone operators flew more than 240kg of supplies from patrol ship HMS Trent to Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands in an hour-long trial the service calls a first of its kind

A four-rotor drone that can lift 68kg shuttled more than 240kg of supplies from a

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An early U.S. Army MQ-1C in flight; the aircraft was later named Gray Eagle.

General Atomics has completed flight testing of an SNC electronic support system on the Army’s Gray Eagle drone, which it says can detect and target enemy air defenses from outside their engagement zones

SAN DIEGO — The Army’s MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range has flown with a new

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Anduril YFQ-44A Fury drone in a hangar test chamber

An F-22 pilot acted as an airborne quarterback for an Anduril YFQ-44A Fury drone during a multi-hour flight from Edwards Air Force Base, sending it a new mission plan by data link

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A Raptor and a Fury took off from the

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Army cavalry soldiers set up drone and electronic warfare equipment in a field

After more than 90 hours of live drone-defense trials, the Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment found its hardest problem was not shooting drones down but merging four separate battle networks

Knocking small drones out of the sky turned out to be the manageable part. When

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Gold ion-trap chip inside a copper quantum experiment housing

DARPA has moved Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ into the final stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, which aims to learn by 2033 whether utility-scale quantum computers can be built

Six companies now sit in the final stage of a Defense Department program built to

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A tan JLTV carrying a laser turret in the desert

Three lasers and a high-powered microwave weapon will be evaluated against drones at five U.S. military bases in a Pentagon task force pilot

AeroVironment’s Palletized High-Energy Laser, the Epirus Leonidas high-powered microwave system, Kord’s Firefly High-Energy Laser and

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A U.S. Army soldier with the 2nd Infantry Division handles a small first-person-view drone during a training course at Camp Humphreys, South Korea. Gauntlet 2 at Fort Carson is not shown

In the Pentagon’s second drone Gauntlet at Fort Carson, 23 drone models from 19 companies flew 1,858 sorties, and all 11 long-range models reached 15 kilometers

Every long-range drone at Fort Carson went the distance. Operators at the Colorado post logged

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An Arizona Air National Guard 162nd Fighter Wing F-16 at Tucson in 1994.

Two F-16s carrying Lockheed Martin Legion pods shared passive infrared target tracks over a pod-to-pod data link in a flight test

Two Legion infrared search-and-track pods, each hung on a separate F-16, have pooled what they

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Hegseth Announces Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to Co-Lead Project Meridian — Promises Troops “Absolute Technological Superiority” “From Under the Earth to Beyond the Moon”

Hegseth Announces Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to Co-Lead Project Meridian — Promises Troops “Absolute Technological Superiority” “From Under the Earth to Beyond the Moon”

War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that Elon Musk, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and former

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DARPA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia

DARPA’s passive-ranging challenge ended with no winner, leaving its $1 million top prize unclaimed

Three prizes worth a combined $2 million went unawarded when the Defense Advanced Research Projects

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