There are many jobs in the United States Army that are dangerous — it's the military, after all. Still, there are a few jobs or tasks that are considerably more dangerous than others. In the Navy, ...

Soldiers train on the Drone Buster to engage enemy drones at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California. (Spc. Marques Martinez/U.S. Army) As drones have grown into a massive threat, so has ...

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Joey Frey, an evaluator for U.S. Northern Command's Counter-small Unmanned Aerial System fly-away kit team, places an Anvil drone interceptor on its launch platform during an ...

The U.S. Army wants to speed up drone procurement while also developing laser weapons to shoot down enemy unmanned vehicles. A “Request for Information” from the Army seeks ideas for using High-Energy ...

TRUPPENÜBUNGSPLATZ PUTLOS TRAINING GROUND, Germany—In a grassy field near the Baltic Sea, U.S. soldiers used net-shooting hunter drones, specially outfitted 557 rifles, and .50-caliber machine guns to ...

There's no denying that the 21st century has proven the effectiveness of drones in modern warfare. The conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq alone saw the use of drones for intelligence, surveillance, and ...

The US Army is pitting ideas born in Washington against battlefield realities, with the outcomes shaping how future wars will be fought. Recent exercises at the National Training Center in California ...

The Army is overhauling how it fights in combat based on lessons from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, where drones have become the dominant weapon on the battlefield. The service is rethinking tank ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army aims to buy at least a million drones in the next two to three years and could acquire anywhere from a half million drones to millions of them annually in the years that ...