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Drones (military)

April 2024

  • A drone flying near an airport runway. Photograph: Alexandre Rotenberg/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The mystery of the Gatwick drone – podcast

    This week, from 2020: A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the Sussex sky? By Samira Shackle
  • Flames and smoke rising from the Kerch bridge between Russia and Crimea

    ‘No choice’: Ukraine eyes Kerch bridge in Crimea for drone attack

    Third attack on Kerch bridge between Russia and occupied Crimea ‘inevitable’, say Ukraine’s military intelligence

  • Fireball erupts as Ukraine targets drone factory in Russia – video report

    Ukraine has launched a series of drone strikes against targets in Russia more than 800 miles from the border. Two drones appeared to target a facility assembling Shahed drones, which have been used on the frontline

March 2024

  • Alex Cresswell

    Observer business profile
    ‘I’m not profiting from misery. I’m averting more’ – Thales’s UK boss on making missiles for Ukraine

  • A drone in action

    Australian military buys $5m laser-based anti-drone system

  • Australia will join with the UK and Latvia in providing drones for the Ukrainian effort to repel Russian forces

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    Australia joins 'drone coalition' agreement to aid in Ukraine war effort – video

  • A drone is prepared outside the frontline city of Kurakhove.

    ‘The Russians have more of everything’: Ukrainian forces struggle to hold back enemy in Mariinka

February 2024

  • Why no one is winning the war in Ukraine – video explainer

    The Guardian's Moscow correspondent, Andrew Roth, gives three reasons why the frontlines have remained frozen
  • Iranian-made drones at a ceremony in Tehran in January.

    Academics in US, UK and Australia collaborated on drone research with Iranian university close to regime

    Exclusive: work by researchers from western universities and counterparts at Sharif University considered potentially ‘very dangerous’ by experts

    • The Guardian view on the new drone wars: as prices fall, casualties mount

    • Deadly, cheap and widespread: how Iran-supplied drones are changing the nature of warfare

    • Ukraine thought to have sunk Russian warship near occupied Crimea

January 2024

  • A blazing oil refinery

    Ukraine levels up the fight with drone strikes deep into Russia

  • Gleb Molchanov, a drone operator shows off a Chinese made Mavic 3 drone. The model can be fitted with grenades and a thermal camera.

    Cheap but lethally accurate: how drones froze Ukraine’s frontlines

  • Rebel soldiers at an outpost in Camp Victoria, the headquarter of Chin National Army (CNA), an alliance of ethnic rebel groups fighting junta in the Chin province of Myanmar.

    ‘We killed many … drones are our air force’: Myanmar’s rebels take on the junta from above

  • Two naval officers in white uniform gaze from a ship cabin at billowing yellow smoke outside the screen

    Houthis call west’s bluff with renewed Red Sea drone assault

December 2023

  • A firefighter in front of a house that is on fire

    Russia shoots down 35 Ukrainian drones as both sides step up attacks

    Russian airbase said to be among targets and Ukrainian civilian killed by drone debris in Odesa
  • The Nigerian president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at Cop28 in Dubai

    Nigerian army drone strike accident kills at least 85 civilians

    Residents in north-west of the country say many victims of strike during Muslim festival were women and children
  • USS Carney

    Three commercial vessels attacked in Red Sea by Houthi rebels, says US

    US military says the destroyer Carney shot down three drones as US Central Command says it believes attacks ‘fully enabled by Iran’

November 2023

  • A woman throws a broken window frame in a pile near a building in Solomianskyi district that was damaged by a drone fragment on 25 November, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

    Russia wages electronic warfare ‘using UK-made tech’, Ukraine dossier claims

    Report calls on government to take immediate action to disrupt supply of technology used in electronic warfare
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