Drones

Published Jul 22, 2022 7:21PM EDT Credit: REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko The United States promised more military support for Ukraine, including drones, and is doing preliminary work on whether to send fighter aircraft, as fighting raged on in the east of the country five months into Russia's invasion. By Max Hunder KYIV,…

A destroyed Russian tank along the side of the road in Ukraine. Nicola Marfisi/AGF/Universal Images Group via Gett The United States will provide Ukraine with an additional roughly $270 million to aid in its defense against Russian aggression, including $100 million for drones, the White House said on Friday as…

(This July 22 story corrects first paragraph to show war about to enter sixth, not fifth, month) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is exploring whether it can send U.S.-made fighter jets to Ukraine, a White House spokesman told reporters on Friday, as the conflict with Russia is about to…

By Jared Malsin and Elvan Kivilcim | Photographs by Ahmed Deeb for The Wall Street Journal July 21, 2022 8:01 am ET ANKARA, Turkey—Turkey’s two-decade-long project to become a weapons-manufacturing powerhouse is starting to pay off for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey’s low-cost drones helped alter the balance of power…

The Israeli military has confirmed one of its worst-kept secrets, publicly acknowledging for the first time that it uses unmanned aerial vehicles to carry out attacks Israel has used drones to attack targets in Gaza for well over a decade, with many human rights groups condemning the attacks. | Photo…

Author of the article: OTTAWA — Russian forces in Syria on Wednesday shot down two drones that fired at its military base at Hmeimim, Interfax news agency cited a defense official as saying. The official said there had been no casualties or damage. Russia launched a military campaign in 2015…

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Social media capture Separate attempts by Ukrainian drone-operators to knock out Russian vehicles in Ukraine illustrate different approaches to do-it-yourself air raids. Both raids involved commercial-style drones and improvised explosives. One required a lot more luck than the other. On Monday, Ukraine’s Security Service—the country’s main counterterrorism agency—posted on social…

If autonomous drones and flying taxis are going to thrive, they'll need AI that can handle a wide range of conditions — and Microsoft thinks it can help build that AI. The company has unveiled a Project AirSim platform that helps manufacturers create, train and test the algorithms guiding autonomous…

Microsoft reckons its flight simulator platform could have autonomous drones trained up and in the sky faster than more traditional methods. Project AirSim is built to train autonomous drones in real-world scenarios. Microsoft said it "can run through millions of flights in seconds" with drones "learning how to react to…