•MQ-9 drones The United States has deployed multiple MQ-9 drones alongside around 200 troops to Nigeria to provide intelligence and training support to the Nigerian military in its ongoing fight against insurgents across the northern region. The operation is strictly focused on surveillance and advisory support, with no US personnel embedded i...
•US embassy headquarters in Riyadh Drones hit the US embassy in Riyadh today as Iran hit back at industrial and diplomatic targets across the Middle East and Washington warned its citizens to evacuate the entire region. Four days after US and Israeli strikes killed Iran’s supreme leader and triggered a regional war, our correspondents in [&hel...
Russia launched a fresh wave of overnight strikes on Ukraine, firing 85 attack drones and a ballistic missile just hours after President Vladimir Putin met with United States President Donald Trump in Alaska. Ukraine’s air force said Moscow targeted several frontline regions with an Iskander-M ballistic missile and Shahed-type drones last nigh...
•Presidents Putin (Russia), Trump (USA) and Zelenskyy (Ukraine) Russia fired a record 479 drones at Ukraine in an overnight aerial barrage, Kyiv’s air force said today, the latest massive attack as Moscow rejects calls for a ceasefire. The attack caused damage in several Ukrainian regions, though there were no reports of people killed or mass...
•Boko Haram terrorists …Being Editorial by Nigerian Tribune Recently, a counter-terrorism outfit, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) of the Nigerian Army, raised the alarm over the increasing use of armed drones by Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East, warning that the devices are difficult to detect using conventional radar systems. Speakin...
•Billionaire Elon Musk Billionaire Elon Musk, tapped by US President-elect Donald Trump to slash federal government spending, lashed out at modern fighter jets today, saying that drones were the future of air combat. “Manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway. Will just get pilots killed,” said the head of SpaceX, Tesla [&he...
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