Drones

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…

On July 11, Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, told reporters that the government of Iran was prepared to send several hundred drones, including armed drones, to Russia. And in late June, the impoverished Buryatia region of Russia reportedly raised 200 million rubles of its own funding to buy equipment…

A university building in Mykolaiv was hit in a Russian missile strike on Friday. (Wojciech Grzedzinski for The Washington Post)Updated July 16, 2022 at 8:42 p.m. EDT|Published July 16, 2022 at 2:20 a.m. EDT This live coverage has ended. For Sunday’s live updates, click here. Russia’s defense minister on Saturday…

Russian officials have recently visited Iran twice to assess combat drones, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Saturday, as Moscow looks to bolster its arsenal for the war in Ukraine. Iran's military hosted two showcases for Russian delegations at the Kashan airfield, on June 8 and again on July…