After years of putting off the drone threat, the U.S. government is trying to do something about it, but policy is struggling to catch up.

At Fort Stewart, Georgia, soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Division are working on a pair of courses to certify soldiers to operate small unmanned aerial systems, part of a servicewide effort to create doctrine around using drones throughout every formation.

The joint base hosting NORAD headquarters and key forces operating in the Arctic and Indo-Pacific is vulnerable to drone intrusions and surveillance, security forces say.

The U.S. Marine Corps is quietly rewriting the economics of airpower, fielding a new generation of small attack drones that cost about $700 each yet promise the kind of precision once reserved for weapons worth hundreds of times more.

Raytheon, a business of RTX, reported it successfully tested its anti-drone system during a recent U.S. Army demonstration. The Coyote Block 3 Non-Kinetic system “defeated drone swarms launched during the exercise and demonstrated exceptional launch,

Russia is using larger drones as carriers to deliver FPVs for precision attacks from hundreds of miles away. Gerberas, most often seen as decoys during Shahed attacks, are carrying and launching small FPV attack drones far inside Ukraine.

This weapon is literally made of scrap materials, but it’s the country’s most dangerous, and it’s about to be everywhere.

The first phase of the Pentagon's drone competition, Gauntlet, begins later this month. US drone operators will fly and test the systems.

Ukraine burns through small drones like belts of ammunition — fed, fired, and reloaded. Piloted from behind the front lines, drones hunt on the battlefield. This summer, Ukraine’s drone production increased 900 percent to 200,000 per month from 20,000 ...

With a single invisible shot, Raytheon's Coyote Block 3 UAV zapped swarms of drones out of the sky in a US Army demonstration showing that a reusable drone with electromagnetic weapons is an economical alternative to explosive interceptors.

NBC's drone cameras amaze Olympic fans during skiing, snowboarding, luge and more; sound annoys some originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. During the earliest events of the 2026 Winter Olympics, viewers of the NBC family of channels may notice small drones whirring around.