Stacie Pettyjohn at the Center for a New American Security says Iran's Shahed-136 drones are mainly composed of off-the-shelf consumer tech, which makes them affordable to make at scale.

Several drones with unknown origin were spotted over the U.S. military base housing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday night.

The U.S. military and its allies across the Middle East are struggling to combat Iran’s swarms of cheap attack drones as the war enters its second week. Pentagon officials this past week reportedly conceded in closed-door briefings with lawmakers that waves of Iranian-launched drones are punching through air defenses,

Officials detected multiple unidentified drones above Fort Lesley J. McNair, the U.S. Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live, prompting heightened security measures and White House deliberations on potential relocation of the officials,

The site in Pickaway County is expected to manufacture up to 150 drones annually, with hundreds of employees coming online as production ramps up.

"The future of warfare is Ukraine producing 7 million drones per year right now," former CIA director and retired Gen. David Patraeus said.

The Iran war is testing America's ability to combat swarms of cheap drones that have become a staple of the modern battlefield after Ukraine and Russia demonstrated how effective they can be.

The hot item on the Navy’s drone wish list these days is unmanned aircraft that sailors can launch from smaller ships or austere locations to carry out long-range attacks. Instead of aircraft carriers, the launchpad for such a drone would be smaller ...