Unmanned Systems

US Army’s fresh look at watercraft includes unmanned options

The Army's new plan for watercraft has a joint focus and will use autonomous and robotic technology.

US Army leaning into launched effects for modernized battlefield

The Army is rapidly pursuing launched effects to deliver surveillance, reconnaissance, targeting, network and lethal capabilities to a modern force.

The robots are coming: US Army experiments with human-machine warfare

But before it works, the service must break from antiquated acquisition processes that prevent rapid purchases and slow down deliveries to soldiers.

US testing Stryker-mounted lasers in Iraq amid Middle East drone boom

Laser and microwave weapons are considered critical elements of layered defense, or having different countermeasures ready to thwart different threats.

First round of Replicator to heavily feature Army systems, Bush says

Army acquisition chief Doug Bush said the service is the "biggest player" in the first tranche of the Pentagon's Replicator effort.

North Korean clones of US drones show Kim’s ambitions, Aquilino says

The country's drones have in the past crossed into South Korea, prompting a military response.

Opinion

The next arsenal of democracy: Send partners low-cost drone components

Helping free societies build swarms of low-cost drones can play a central role in retooling foreign military assistance.

Anduril attack drone deemed ‘accurate and effective’ in Dugway trials

Footage showed an Altius-700M shooting out of a ground-based launcher, cutting through the air and then crashing into a mock surface-to-air missile system.

Drones, tanks and ships: Takeaways from Turkey’s annual defense report

The government listed 49 ongoing modernization and acquisition projects across the various armed forces. Here are some that stood out.

Tech maturing too fast for multiyear drone buys, Army’s Bush says

Locking in on the same drone year after year may not make sense amid rapidly changing circumstances, he said.