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Drones (military)

April 2026

  • A vessel in the strait of Hormuz

    What will the UK’s role be in the strait of Hormuz when the Iran war ends?

    Royal Navy has few mine-hunting ships to deploy as world leaders discuss how to safeguard shipping
  • Drone Racing League pilots compete at a 2022 event.

    Drone racing to drone strikes: have war and sport become indistinguishable?

    The Trump administration’s pushing of the war in Iran reflects a sporting culture driven by clipped-up content, shameless tribalism and a lust for escalation
  • Trainee operators test out an unmanned ground robot in the snow

    ‘The frontline is like Terminator’: fighting robots give Ukraine hope in war with Russia

    Use of unmanned ground vehicles has grown exponentially since 2024 turning the war into a technological contest

March 2026

  • Iran's IRGC launching a missile during military drills in the Strait of Hormuz

    US has destroyed only a third of Iran’s missiles, intelligence suggests

  • Missile trails above a city

    European intelligence agencies believe Russia is supplying drones to Iran, says official

  • Ukrainian experts examine crashed Shahed 136 drone wreckage in Kharkiv park

    Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
    Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv deploys 200 anti-drone experts to Middle East

  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses MPs.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Zelenskyy says Europe is a ‘global force’ that can stand against any other power in address to MPs – as it happened

  • UK plans to send minesweeping drones to help reopen strait of Hormuz

  • ‘I won’t hide it, I’m scared’: drone strike alerts Cyprus to its inadequate bomb shelters

  • In linking Iran to Russia, Healey could be laying ground for hard choices ahead

  • Putin’s ‘hidden hand’ lies behind Iran’s drone tactics, UK defence secretary says

  • French aid worker among three killed in drone strike in east DRC, M23 rebels say

  • Ukraine sent drone experts to protect US bases in Jordan, says Zelenskyy

  • ‘It means missile defence on datacentres’: drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower

  • Middle East war could be decided by who runs out of missiles or interceptors first, analysts say

  • Iran’s Shahed drones have brought terror to Ukrainian skies – now they are being deployed in the Middle East

February 2026

  • Rajan Menon

    double quotation markFour years ago, the world expected Ukraine to be crushed, but it has stood firm. So what now for Putin?

    Rajan Menon
  • A man in a suit

    Blackwater founder Erik Prince has joined the drone-warfare fray in Ukraine, SEC filings reveal

  • Starlink app on a smartphone screen.

    Russian military scrambles to find Starlink alternative after access blocked

  • An old woman with a shopping bag crosses a road lined with market stalls with netting draped over it

    The Sunday read
    ‘It’s not just about surviving’: the Ukrainian frontline city where life goes on under cover

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