Drones
Inside the Drone Wars
Drones from Egypt, Turkey, Iran and the UAE have reshaped Sudan’s civil war, expanded its geographic range and made it nearly impossible to assign blame for civilian deaths. The U.N. attributes three-quarters of such deaths in the war-torn country this year to drones.
Sonic Terror
Russia’s drone strategy has created a nation on permanent, exhausting alert. Every Ukrainian is now an involuntary sound engineer, acutely sensitive to the ambient noise, trying to mentally calculate a threat’s distance from a high-pitched buzz or a faint whistle.
The Israeli Drones Guarding Fortress Europe
Countries across the Mediterranean rely on Israeli-made drones to police their maritime borders. Those same drones are often battle-tested on the Palestinians in Gaza.
Cheap Houthi Drones Are Draining the Pentagon’s Coffers
Since October, the United States military and its assets have spent over $1 billion to counter the low-cost drones launched by Houthi rebels and other militant groups in the region. With the weight of the American defense industrial complex behind it, why can’t the Pentagon develop cost-effective weapons?