Through its Tactical Technology Office (TTO), DARPA wants to move drones to the next level with its Lift Challenge – a US$6.5-million competition aimed at creating small drones capable of lifting ...

China has flown its Jetank unmanned aircraft, a heavy-lift drone called "airborne UAV carrier" by state media, for the first ...

While reports have identified the Jiutian as a “general-purpose drone,” concepts have shown it releasing drone swarms with a ...

The Pentagon’s secretive technology incubator has launched its latest X-plane competition, this time with an eye toward identifying concepts for a highly efficient uncrewed cargo drone. The US Defense ...

The partnership will introduce next-gen heavy-lift drones to speed up and streamline India’s power transmission projects.

In recent months, Ukrainian heavy bomber drones, commonly known as Baba Yaga, are playing a growing role in the ...

Images captured from video posted on social media in August 2025 showing a Russian "Night Witch" drone dropping a munition on an island in the Dnipro River. Despite potential peace talks, Russia and ...

We asked readers of The Morning for their questions about drones. Today, Times journalists answer. By Adam B. Kushner I am the editor of this newsletter. Drones are already reshaping our lives — in ...

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818. “War is chaos. It always has been. But technology makes it ...

The FAA refers to drones as "small unmanned aircraft systems," or UAS. Shooting down a hovering drone is illegal in Massachusetts and nationwide, the FAA says. Massachusetts law also prohibits taking ...

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Governments across both advanced and emerging market economies have increasingly rolled out new support for targeted companies and industries over the past decade and a half. Industrial policy, as ...