In a Facebook post, the veteran photojournalist said the drone, equipped with surface-to-air missiles, was photographed on Dec. 6. He did not disclose the location of the shoot, citing security concerns.

Armed factions in Colombia have been using drones for nearly a decade. The Gulf Clan, a drug gang, started using them for smuggling as early as 2016. Two years later the National Liberation Army ( ELN ), a paramilitary group, began using them for surveillance.

A reindeer made a festive escape from a Christmas celebration. The animal, named Buddy, dashed away from the Santa’s Enchanted Forest event in Merseyside, England, leading to a large search operation involving a police drone and armed officers.

Developed in Texas and known as the Campus Guardian Angel program, the program uses drones armed with less-than-lethal pepper spray bullets, flash bangs, and sirens to “distract active shooters” during a potential mass shooting. The drones are flown remotely and controlled by a team of “elite human pilots” from an operations center in Texas.

Drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) attacked the Kamenka-Dneprovskaya and Vasilyevsky municipal districts in the Zaporizhia region, as a result of the incident, one person was injured, an electric transmission line and a gas pipeline were also damaged.

A Ukrainian operator who survived the attack told Business Insider that he credits the vehicle driver with saving the crew's lives.

Following their successful use in surveillance and reconnaissance missions, all three branches of the Indian armed forces—the Army, Navy, and Air Force—are placing new orders for the Israeli Heron Mk-

The vessel, LÉ William Butler Yeats, did not shoot down the drones but also lacked any capability to disable them, and a nearby Irish Air Corps aircraft also did not get involved. Deck lookouts spotted the drones because their lights were on as they flew.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818

French officials are investigating an illegal drone overflight of the Atlantic coast base for France’s nuclear-armed submarines