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Concerns grow as Mexican cartels embrace drones for drug smuggling, attacks on rivals

WASHINGTON – El Paso airspace briefly closed amid fears of a cartel drone incursion as U.S. authorities tested a new ...
Yahoo

The US military's drone-defense confusion is leaving its bases vulnerable, Pentagon watchdog finds

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new watchdog report says unclear counter-drone policies are leaving some military bases vulnerable. Several at-risk ...
Task & Purpose

Pentagon gives base commanders more control on countering drones

Base commanders are getting more power to directly respond to threats from drones flying over military installations, the Pentagon announced this week. Joint Inter-Agency Task Force 401, the ...
New Atlas

Autonomous MQ-20 Avenger aces simulated air-to-air kill

The software and hardware that will control tomorrow's combat drones got a workout on January 18, as a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger showed off its capability by autonomously intercepting a crewed ...

Top 6 Cutting-Edge Military Drones Dominating Today’s Battlefields

Meet the MQ-9 Reaper, Bayraktar TB2, RQ-4 Global Hawk, MQ-1C Gray Eagle, Heron TP, and CH-4 Rainbow—today’s most influential military drones for persistent ISR, precision strikes, and high-altitude ...