DARPA’s Manta Ray underwater drone is designed for months-long autonomous missions deep beneath the ocean surface.

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) issued a challenge, the DARPA Lift Challenge, in October 2025 to develop novel drone designs that have greater payload-to-weight ratio. DARPA, which ...

Visualize this scene: an unmanned vehicle, launched from another aircraft, itself capable of firing missiles. This is not a ...

As military missions become more complicated, warfighters need more capable drones to use across diverse scenarios. The same also applies to civilian applications, like infrastructure inspection, ...

Pentagon neglect played a key role in China’s rise to global dominance in the small drone industry, but now the U.S. Army wants to buy 1 million small UAS over the next 2-3 years and ramp up domestic ...