Military drones
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The US Justice Department on Monday charged two Iranians with conspiring to export sensitive US technology to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, including navigation systems used in military drones that killed three US service members. Dual US-Iranian national Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi, 42, a resident of Natick, Massachusetts, and Mohammad Abedininajafabadi, 38, of Tehran, were charged with violating…
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A frustrated Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for federal assistance after the latest drone sighting temporarily shut down an airport Friday night, the latest in a series of mysterious occurrences taking place across the country. Officials at Stewart International Airport, located roughly 60 miles north of New York City, said they shut down their runways for an…
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Mikhail Shatsky, who is said to have overseen the modernisation of Kh-59 and Kh-69 missiles used by Russia against Ukraine, was reportedly shot dead near his home. A Russian weapons expert who helped to develop cruise missiles used in the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine has reportedly been assassinated in a forest in the Moscow region.…
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Vladimir Putin will fly on a modernized Tu-160M supersonic strategic bomber today, Russian state TV reported the Kremlin as saying. The giant swing-wing plane is a substantially modernised-version of a Soviet-era bomber. The USSR would have deployed it in the event of a nuclear war with the West to deliver nuclear weapons over long distances.
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The UK will invest £4.5bn in drones for its armed forces off the back of lessons learned in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence has announced. The UK Defence Drone Strategy will see all elements of the military experimenting with, testing and evaluating unmanned systems. “The conflict in Ukraine has been an incubator for new ways…
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