A soldier tests the controls on a small drone at the 173rd Airborne Brigade's drone lab. The U.S. Army’s rapid response unit in Europe is working quickly to build out its own arsenal of small, agile ...

Having an FPV goggles-wearing marine pilot squeeze a palm-sized aircraft into a doorway is no longer a novelty. The Marine Corps has initiated the process of transforming that ability into a ...

March 9, 2025: A major military expenditure in Ukraine is for drones. Several million are being built this year. The total for 2024 was 1.5 million drones. There have been problems. Chinese component ...

Naval Special Warfare Command is looking to launch a 10-day school to teach its troops how to build and fly first-person-view drones, repair them, and put operators through a final field exercise with ...

The takeaway: YouTube creator and DIY engineer Hoarder Sam has pushed the boundaries of microdrone engineering by unveiling what may be the smallest first-person-view (FPV) quadcopter ever flown.

Each small drone, compared to "steerable mortars," is made in-house with soldiers building them themselves to then train with them. By Nicholas Slayton Published May 11, 2025 8:12 PM EDT The U.S. Army ...