FT. HUACHUCA, Ariz. – When MQ-9 Predator drones flew over anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles this summer, it was the first time since 2020 that they had been dispatched to monitor demonstrations on U.S.

Author Mark Bowden writes in our 101 Objects Special Issue: Though unmanned, remote-controlled drones had been used in times of war since World War II, they were revolutionized in 1995. The Gnat, ...

The drone, as first reported by Vice, was noticed by an online flight watching community that utilizes software for tracking domestic aircraft. Jason Paladino, a reporter with The Project on ...

Famous for their use in the War on Terror, Predator drones have found a new role serving domestic law enforcement. According to a recent Los Angeles Times article, local police in Nelson County, North ...

The unmanned aircraft flying over eastern North Dakota on a cold February morning isn’t the kind you’d fly in your back yard. The Predator is about the size of small private aircraft. Brian Franke is ...

The Iran war quickly tested America’s ability to combat the swarms of cheap drones that have become a staple of the modern battlefield after Ukraine and Russia demonstrated how effective they could be ...

US struggles to counter Iran’s cheap drone swarms, pushing a rapid shift to lower‑cost defenses.

The era of autonomous warfare will not announce itself with robotic armies marching across battlefields. Instead, it is already emerging, quietly and inexorably, in the skies and fields of eastern ...