#drones

#drones

The Ukrainian drone schools training operators for war are having to rewrite their lessons as fast as every other week to get students ready for an ever-changing battlefield. Within the drone battle, a critically important aspect of this war, tech and tactics are shifting rapidly. Three drone schools told Business Insider that it's imperative they keep their lessons up to date because it's life or death on the battlefield.

Augustus Doricko, founder and CEO of cloud-seeding startup Rainmaker, surveys the sky from a sunbaked hillside 5 miles from Utah's Great Salt Lake. On this balmy Sunday afternoon in late September, the lake is calm, but its serenity belies a potentially catastrophic problem: The Great Salt Lake is shrinking-and is at risk of disappearing altogether. At its peak 40 years ago, the lake covered 2,300 square miles; today, more than 800 square miles of lake bed are exposed.

There was no threat posed by drones to President Volodomyr Zelensky on his Irish visit last week because they appeared after he had landed, the Taoiseach has told the Dáil. "His aircraft had landed quite some time before," Micheál Martin said, adding that he had been briefed on the incident and had received a report. But it was not appropriate to enter details in the public domain, he said.

On the night of 25-26 November 2025, units from Ukraine 's defence forces struck, among other targets, the VNIIR-Progress plant, which manufactures navigation equipment and components for cruise and ballistic missiles, in Cheboksary, [Russia's] Republic of Chuvashia.

Human pyramids, colour coding and throw-overs are all adding to a contraband problem at Wheatfield

Ukraine's special operators said Saturday they took down a Russian Mi-8 helicopter with a long-range "deep strike" drone for the first time. The update didn't say where it happened, but it stressed the significance. They described the move as "changing the rules of the game: now we hunt!" Video released by Ukraine's Special Operations Forces appears to be footage from the drone as it flew over an enemy helicopter, drawing steadily closer before the clip cuts off.

The drones infiltrating Britain's prisons to deliver contraband are not only carrying quantities of illegal drugs, but also a broad range of lifestyle products, including weight-loss medication and hair-loss treatments, the UK's chief prison inspector has said. Charlie Taylor said the fleets of drones now routinely surpassing jails' security systems represent a new paradigm for the prison system, not least because the ability for prisoners to take illegal deliveries could be a major security threat.

Belgium's Liege airport has temporarily halted flights for a second time this week after another drone sighting, the country's air traffic control service reported. A drone was spotted at about 7:30am (06:30 GMT) on Friday, forcing the airport to close for 30 minutes. Flights have now resumed, said a spokesperson for the Skeyes air traffic control service. list of 3 itemsend of list The disruption follows drone sightings over airports

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We want them to feel safe, we want them to come back to their normal routine. So we're calling off the physical search. I'll go out with my drone once a day or so, and then see what we can find. But unfortunately, it's going to be a little bit of a ti

Operating out of a NATO ally that shares a border with Russia, Origin Robotics has been closely following the war, even building combat systems for it. The CEO told Business Insider that the feedback they're receiving is providing important lessons not just for it, but for the West as it equips itself for potential future fights. The company makes autonomous aerial and airborne systems, including a drone-launched precision-guided weapon known as the BEAK, which is in use in Ukraine.

Safety in prisons is being critically undermined by a drugs crisis which has reached endemic levels, MPs have warned, as drone sightings soar by 1,140 per cent. The cross-party justice committee has called for urgent action after finding almost four in 10 inmates admit it's easy to get drugs, with many prisons having a menu of illicit substances on offer.

A small kamikaze unmanned aircraft takes off from Ukrainian positions, equipped not only with an explosive charge but also with a camera that allows its flight path to be observed in real time. Shortly afterward, it encounters a Russian Mi-8 military helicopter, which the Ukrainian pilot manages to hit. Almost immediately, the enemy aircraft plummets to the ground in a fiery mess.

At the Army's annual gathering in Washington, DC, this week, Command Sgt. Maj. Shaun Curry of the 25th Infantry Division said that some drone models tested elsewhere struggled soon after arriving in Hawaii. "When that equipment came to Hawaii, it was 100 degrees outside," with a lot of salt water in the air, Curry said. "Those drones did not last in those heat environments."

A report from DCC's Halloween working group, made up of representatives from the public domain, community development and housing departments, along with gardaí, told councillors it was using "authorised drone flights" to monitor the city. "This has proved effective in identifying large-scale storage in previous years," it said. Any identified material will be removed by the group in co-ordination with gardaí, with the public encouraged to report suspected stockpiling to the council.

Fighting Russian drone and missile attacks across Ukraine on Saturday killed at least five people, while also cutting power to parts of the southern Odesa region, the AFP news agency reported, citing local officials. Two of the victims were killed in an attack on a church in Kostiantynivka in eastern Donetsk, AFP said. Ukraine's private energy firm DTEK said that power has been restored to 240,000 households in Odesa after a Russian attack overnight on Saturday, which damaged some energy infrastructure.

Berkeley could soon start planning how to equip the Berkeley Police Department and other first responders with drones to track fleeing suspects, provide reconnaissance during standoffs and gain a bird's-eye view of disasters like earthquakes and fires, among other uses. A proposal from Councilmember Terry Taplin would task the City Manager's Office with developing an acquisition report and use policy for drones.

It's one of the reasons why we're significantly increasing our Defence Forces capabilities. We should never fool ourselves or convince ourselves that Ireland is immune from such attack," he said, adding that it is important the government invests in radar capability. "I like to think of it as a bit of a burglar alarm type of system that gives us a greater understanding and warning as to what's happening in our skies and that's why I think it's a really sensible and a prudent time to invest in radar.

SAN RAMON, Calif. (KGO) -- San Ramon community leaders are pushing for public safety reform and accountability from elected officials after a brazen jewelry heist that happened in the middle of the day. They are holding a press conference outside the Heller Jewelry store on Thursday at 11 a.m. RELATED: Why is California seeing 'unheard of' surge in violent jewelry shop robberies? On Monday afternoon, nearly 25 suspects, at least three of them armed, stormed Heller Jewelers at City Center Bishop Ranch.