WASHINGTON — An Army unit based in Europe that was specializing in drone warfare has been directed to end its efforts to learn and use the battlefield technology and return to being a traditional infantry battalion, officials said Thursday. For more nearly a year, soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade have been experimenting and building
WASHINGTON– The US military on Tuesday identified a soldier who died while disarming an Iranian drone in Iraq as a 30-year-old man from North Carolina. The Army said it was investigating the death of Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton of Fayetteville during a controlled detonation Sunday at an air base in Irbil, northern Iraq. Swinton will
Some companies want their humanoid robots to fold your clothes. Others want them in the workplace. Sankaet Pathak and his startup Foundation Future Industries have a slightly different goal: producing an all-American super soldier robot. Pathak, the Foundation’s chief executive, says his company plans to begin equipping its humanoids with lethal capabilities soon, although he
A week after the United States and Iran signed a preliminary agreement aimed at ending the war, an Iranian drone crashed into a cargo ship sailing through the Strait of Hormuz. There were no casualties or major damage, but the June 25 attack set off a chain of hostilities that would put the two countries
WASHINGTON– President Donald Trump flew home midway from a NATO summit in Turkey on an old baby-blue Air Force One plane instead of the new retrofitted red, white and navy plane gifted by Qatar on which he arrived, a surprise exchange that came as the United States and Iran once again began carrying out trade