Tag: drone

US Military Drone Crashes in Polish Woodland During Training

WARSAW, Poland—A U.S. military drone has crashed in the woods in southwestern Poland after contact was lost during training, Poland’s Defense Ministry said Friday. The ministry said that no one was hurt and there was no damage from the incident on Thursday afternoon. Polish media reported that an eyewitness saw an object crashing in the…


US Central Command Says It Killed ISIS Leader in Eastern Syria

CAIRO/AMMAN—The U.S. Central Command said on Sunday it conducted a drone strike on July 7 that killed an ISIS leader in Eastern Syria. It used the same MQ-9 drones in the attack that had “earlier in the day been harassed by Russian aircraft in an encounter that had lasted almost two hours,” it said in…


ISIS Leader Killed by Airstrike in Syria, U.S. Central Command Says

CAIRO/AMMAN—U.S. forces said they conducted a drone strike in eastern Syria on July 7 that killed an ISIS leader. The strike utilized the same MQ-9 drones that had “earlier in the day been harassed by Russian aircraft in an encounter that had lasted almost two hours,” U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in a statement on July…


ISIS Leader Killed by Airstrike in Syria, US Central Command Says

CAIRO/AMMAN—U.S. forces said they conducted a drone strike in eastern Syria on July 7 that killed an ISIS leader. The strike utilized the same MQ-9 drones that had “earlier in the day been harassed by Russian aircraft in an encounter that had lasted almost two hours,” U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in a statement on July…


LIVE NOW: Pentagon Holds Press Briefing After Russian Jets Harass US Drone

Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder holds a media briefing at 2:30 p.m. ET on July 6 after Russian jets harassed a U.S. drone over Syria. …


Pentagon Holds Press Briefing After Russian Jets Harass US Drone

Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder holds a media briefing at 2:30 p.m. ET on July 6 after Russian jets harassed a U.S. drone over Syria. …


Russia Says It Downed 3 Drones Outside Moscow, Suspects It Was Attack by Ukraine

Two drones were brought down outside Moscow as they approached the warehouses of a local military unit, Russian authorities said Wednesday, in what could be the latest attempt by Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia during the early stages of Kyiv’s most recent counteroffensive. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that the…


Putin’s Desperation and Russia’s Disintegration

Commentary Vladimir Putin is desperate, which is good and bad. The bad—the really bad—is that cornered animals tend to lash out. In Putin’s case, that could include the use of tactical nuclear weapons or a “stray” artillery shell hitting Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Either act would escalate the war and might…


AI-Controlled Drone Turns On, ‘Kills’ Human Operator in Simulated US Air Force Test

An AI-enabled drone turned on and “killed” its human operator during a simulated U.S. Air Force (USAF) test so that it could complete its mission, a U.S. Air Force colonel reportedly recently told a conference in London. The simulated incident was recounted by Col. Tucker Hamilton, USAF’s chief of AI Test and Operations, during his presentation at…


Russia Unleashes Largest Drone Attack on Ukrainian Capital Ahead of Kyiv Day

KYIV—Russia unleashed waves of air strikes on Kyiv overnight in what officials said appeared to be the largest drone attack on the city since the start of the war, as the Ukrainian capital prepared to celebrate the anniversary of its founding on Sunday. Ukraine’s Air Force said it downed 52 out of the 54 Russia-launched…