The past 12 months have read like a science-fiction novel, with thousands of UFOs swarming over the US East Coast, an ...

A novel uncrewed aircraft unveiled by China in late 2024 to deploy large numbers of small drones has recently logged its first flight. Known alternatively as the “Jetank” or “Jiutian”, the large ...

AVIC's Jiutian SS-UAV No 004 was shown at Airshow China 2024, carrying a diverse range of armament on its eight underwing hardpoints. (Janes/Sam Wise) A heavyweight, multirole unmanned aerial vehicle ...

While reports have identified the Jiutian as a “general-purpose drone,” concepts have shown it releasing drone swarms with a range of surface and maritime strike munitions. A massive drone-carrying ...

The project aims to equip larger drones with smaller drones to take out battlefield targets. The Air Force awarded a multi-million dollar contract for small unmanned aerial systems that can support ...

I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re frozen solid. But as they near our star on ...

What if the future of robotics wasn’t a single machine but an intelligent swarm, moving as one, adapting to its environment, and executing tasks with precision? Imagine a fleet of drones navigating a ...

The Pentagon has just awarded a contract for ‘multi-dimensional drone swarm’ from XTEND Reality Inc which includes multiple types of drone flown by AI pilots working together under the control of a ...

FX has finally reached a verdict on the future of Alien: Earth following the explosive Season 1 finale. The studio has confirmed that Alien: Earth has been renewed and will move forward with another ...