U.S. Marines carried out their first live-fire demonstrations of first-person-view attack drones on the Korean Peninsula.
Marines successfully concluded the service's first series of live-fire first-person view attack drone flights in South Korea, demonstrating the ability to field emerging technologies in the Western Pacific rapidly.
The U.S. launched a killer-drone competition in February. It was won, according to public leaderboards , by a small British company with frontline Ukrainian experience and a manufacturing footprint in Atlanta. Why it matters: Skycutter's stateside success, after flying well under the radar, is a reminder that: - Flash does not necessarily signal substance; - Innovation exists outside the big-money bubbles of Silicon Valley and Washington; - And the Russia-Ukraine war is influencing the battlefield tech of today and tomorrow. Driving the news: Skycutter scored an overall 99.3 at the first Gauntlet, an attack drone fly-off at Fort Benning , Georgia. In second was Neros, a California startup, at 87.5. - "We were nervous going into it,…
In eastern Ukraine, white nylon nets now stretch over roads and city streets, a low-tech defense against deadly FPV drones that dominate the battlefield and threaten civilians near the front line.