Startup mass-producing cheap killer drones wins $500 million Army contract

Neros, started by former drone-racing teens, makes Ukraine-style first-person-view drones that are cost-competitive with ...
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Cheap drones are forcing expensive militaries to rethink air defenses

On a winter night in early 2025, a Ukrainian air defense crew near Kyiv tracked more than 100 inbound objects on radar. Some were Russian Shahed-type attack drones carrying warheads. Others were crude ...

Cheap drones turn energy into the global economy's weak spot

Cheap, mass-produced drones have transformed modern warfare, exposing critical energy infrastructure as an Achilles' heel for ...
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Small, inexpensive drones are changing the battlefield. The Pentagon is playing catchup

In the wars in both Ukraine and Iran, one-way attack drones have changed the battlefield. So the Pentagon is thinking cheaper and smaller. Jay Price of North Carolina Public Radio reports. (SOUNDBITE ...