What happens when the cheapest aircraft in the sky starts dictating how the most expensive defenses are used? That question now sits at the center of air-defense planning. Small unmanned aircraft no ...

The US and Iran are trading blows in the Gulf with a simple drone that costs as little as $50,000 to make. But why is a slow, ...

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Northwestern University professor William Reno, who researches Ukraine’s military training for the Pentagon and visits the country regularly, noted that Ukraine has found cheap ways to shoot down ...

Traditional air defence systems were designed to stop fighter jets and ballistic missiles. But those systems are often extremely expensive. In contrast, modern attack drones can be built and deployed ...

Indonesia is embarking on a plan to make toll roads across the country into emergency runways for its fighter jets, giving it the equivalent of multiple aircraft carriers across the vast archipelago.

As his latest threats to Iran suggest, President Donald Trump has become increasingly comfortable deploying military force ...

While the Iran war has not spilled out of the Middle East, defence planners from Asia will look closely at how it is being fought, says defence writer Mike Yeo.

Drones have reshaped combat in Ukraine and helped fuel predictions that traditional platforms are becoming obsolete. But in the Middle East, the U.S. has largely relied on conventional air and sea ...

The war in the Middle East has reinforced this point, with Gulf states having to rely heavily on firing missiles from complex and costly air-defence systems such as the US Patriot to neutralise Iran’s ...

Laying mines is cheap—and easy. Clearing them is expensive and hard. The potential consequences are terrifying.

Luang Prabang is Southeast Asia's most elegant rebuke to the region's noisier reinventions, a UNESCO World Heritage city where monks still collect alms at dawn, French colonial architecture has not ...