Watch: Iran unveils a their latest UAV, modeled after the U.S. UAV that crashed in 2011

In the video below, Iranian Press TV reveals the latest Iranian “domestically” produced stealth UAV. Their pro-Iranian political analyst, who is based in London, states that America should realize that Iran is a “force to be reckoned with.” He insisted that the new UAV was manufactured to show the pro-American media and world that they can […]

Video appears to confirm use of attack drones by Hezbollah

Hezbollah first used drones in attack missions during the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006, loading Ababil drones with explosive material and sending them to crash into Israeli targets, according to a new research paper written by former Washington Institute analyst Nadav Pollak

Iran announces new drone for jamming communications

Iran has a new home-grown drone to show off. Announced today, the drone has a “jamming capability,” according to Iranian state-owned news network Fars. The Sifar drone is just one of many new models on display at an exhibition of the Iranian Ground Forces. Besides the Sifar jamming drone, Fars claims that a “drone equipped […]

Drone Strike Numbers Disputed

The Obama Administration released statistics last Friday on the number of casualties from drone strikes and some human rights organizations have problems with it. Since 2009, the government said 473 strikes had killed between 2,372 and 2,581 combatants. Additionally, 64-116 non-combatant deaths were also listed. The classified strikes took place in Libya, Pakistan, Somalia and […]

Real-Time Drone Video is Beamed into Apache Helicopter Cockpits

Army Apaches are using a new technology in Afghanistan which enables the attack helicopter crews to view real-time video feeds from nearby drones, control the drones’ flight path and therefore more effectively destroy enemy targets, service officials told Scout Warrior. Manned-Unmanned Teaming, or MUM-T, gives AH-64E Apache attack helicopters an ability to control the flight path and sensor payload of Army […]

British drone-freezing ray gets US airports trial

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is expanding efforts to source technology that can detect small, unmanned aerial vehicles near airports. Three British companies developed the Anti-UAV Defense System (Auds), due to be included in new trials. It works by jamming signals to drones, making them unresponsive. A thermal imaging camera allows the Auds operator to […]

U.S. Charges Woman for Exporting Underwater Drone Technology to China

SOFREP recently covered UUVs that are set for deployment in the South China Sea. – A Florida woman was charged with conspiring to illegally export U.S. technology used in underwater drones to a Chinese state-owned entity, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday. Amin Yu, 53, of Orlando, Florida worked from 2002 until February 2014 […]

Drone Wingmen for U.S. Fighter Jets by 2018

Current-generation US fighter jets could take to the skies alongside unmanned armed drones for within the next two years. The “Loyal Wingman” initiative could see fifth-generation stealth fighters matched with older craft to reduce the risk faced by the human pilot. The technology would allow these drones to fly ahead of the fighter in hostile […]

Hacker Reveals $40 Method to Steal Police Drones

Black Hat Asia IBM security guy Nils Rodday says thieves can hijack expensive professional drones used widely across the law enforcement, emergency, and private sectors thanks to absent encryption in on-board chips. Rodday says the €25,000 (US$28,463, £19,816, AU$37,048) quadcopters can be hijacked with less than $40 of hardware, and some basic knowledge of radio […]