Tag: Drones

Russian missile strike hits residential apartment building in Ukraine

Reporter's Notebook

Reporter’s Notebook: Concerns Russia has control over Black Sea after US drone collision

Washington Examiner Staff · March 18, 2023 4:00 pm

CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, NV - AUGUST 08: An MQ-9 Reaper flies by on a training mission August 8, 2007 at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada. The Reaper is the Air Force's first "hunter-killer" unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and is designed to engage time-sensitive targets on the battlefield as well as provide intelligence and surveillance. The jet-fighter sized Reapers are 36 feet long with 66-foot wingspans and can fly for as long as 14 hours fully loaded with laser-guided bombs and air-to-ground missiles. They can fly twice as fast and high as the smaller MQ-1 Predators reaching speeds of 300 mph at an altitude of up to 50,000 feet. The aircraft are flown by a pilot and a sensor operator from ground control stations. The Reapers are expected to be used in combat operations by the United States military in Afghanistan and Iraq within the next year. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Why did Russia bring down the Reaper drone?

Jon Sweet, Mark Toth · March 17, 2023 7:03 pm

A U.S. F-15 near Al-Tanf, Syria, shot down an Iranian drone where the U.S. is training local fighters to combat the Islamic State. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Matthew Bruch/Released)

How to curb the threat of Iranian drones

Ahmad Hashemi · March 17, 2023 4:47 am

Beltway Confidential

How and why the US must prevent Russia from downing more drones

Tom Rogan · March 16, 2023 7:34 pm

Lloyd Austin and Russian counterpart speak after fighter jet hits US drone

Mike Brest · March 15, 2023 7:21 pm

Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee full committee hearing on the conflict in Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

National Security

Russian jet collision a ‘wake-up call to isolationists,’ top Armed Services Republican says

Ryan King · March 14, 2023 8:35 pm

CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, NV - AUGUST 08: An MQ-9 Reaper flies by on a training mission August 8, 2007 at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada. The Reaper is the Air Force's first "hunter-killer" unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and is designed to engage time-sensitive targets on the battlefield as well as provide intelligence and surveillance. The jet-fighter sized Reapers are 36 feet long with 66-foot wingspans and can fly for as long as 14 hours fully loaded with laser-guided bombs and air-to-ground missiles. They can fly twice as fast and high as the smaller MQ-1 Predators reaching speeds of 300 mph at an altitude of up to 50,000 feet. The aircraft are flown by a pilot and a sensor operator from ground control stations. The Reapers are expected to be used in combat operations by the United States military in Afghanistan and Iraq within the next year. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Russian aircraft collides with unmanned US drone over the Black Sea

Mike Brest · March 14, 2023 5:27 pm

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Border Patrol shows a 2-foot-high drone that a Border Patrol agent spotted swooping over the border fence on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, near a San Diego border crossing.

Texas sheriff tells Congress nearly 2,000 Mexican drug cartel drones are swarming US skies

Anna Giaritelli · February 15, 2023 9:32 pm

Dr. Herbert Hodes

Israel launches drone strike on Iranian facility: Report

Mike Brest · January 31, 2023 4:13 pm

Iranian demonstrators hold posters showing portraits of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, top left on the poster, in a protest against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in front of the French Embassy in Tehran, Iran.

Threats from Iran are expanding beyond Middle East, defense official says

Mike Brest · January 13, 2023 4:54 pm

South Korea to develop ‘stealthy drones’ and ‘drone killer system’

Joel Gehrke · January 4, 2023 10:00 pm

Russia targets Kyiv in overnight drone attack

Mike Brest · December 30, 2022 5:24 pm