The vessel, LÉ William Butler Yeats, did not shoot down the drones but also lacked any capability to disable them, and a nearby Irish Air Corps aircraft also did not get involved. Deck lookouts spotted the drones because their lights were on as they flew.

The drones resemble Iranian-designed Shaheds, which Russia has used in devastating strikes on Ukraine throughout the war.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to embark on the largest unmanned systems buildup in U.S. history — an effort that could deliver more than 300,000 small drones over the next several years.

The U.S. military has deployed its first squadron of one-way attack drones to the Middle East. They were reverse-engineered from Iran’s Shahed drone.

Small drones controlled by fiber-optic cables have turned parts of the battlefield into webs, a Ukrainian special operator told Business Insider.

The Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones are intended to mirror Iran 's Shahed-136 uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), providing a low-cost, scalable capability for autonomous, swarm-style operations.

The president of Synergy is Vadim Lobov, a Kremlin insider whose headquarters on the outskirts of Moscow reportedly features a wall-sized portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the pop-art style of Andy Warhol. For a number of years, Lobov and Perkon co-produced a cross-cultural event in the U.K. called Russian Film Week.

Cal Fire San Benito-Monterey has the largest unmanned aircraft systems program of its kind in the state, in both number of pilots and flight hours.