A new crash course is teaching Marines the ins and outs of drone warfare, from navigation in flight to explosive payloads.

Soldiers learn to pilot and attack with drones during the three-week course, as the US races to catch up on drone warfare.

“We’re behind globally, and this is our aggressive attempt to close that gap,” said the director of the Fort Rucker, Alabama, course. By Patty Nieberg Published Aug 21, 2025 10:00 AM EDT Soldiers will ...

Army efforts to field soldiers as adept as adversaries at using drones in combat are taking a detour from the field into the classroom in an effort to standardize operations training on the ...

In the shifting landscape of warfare, Fort Rucker, Alabama, is working to adapt, and quickly - with the Army's Aviation Center of Excellence recently launching its first Unmanned Advanced Lethality ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Wallace Community College is offering a drone training course. One student, Andrew Arnold, has already received his drone pilot license thanks to Dothan’s Wallace Community ...

The Marine Corps is adding six new piloting courses as the service prepares to field tens of thousands of commercial drones in the coming year. The plan, announced Monday in a memo from the service, ...

Harris Hill, a high school junior and aspiring naval aviator, built a drone obstacle course for Fayette County deputies as part of his Eagle Scout project to enhance their piloting skills. The course, ...

Gamers across the world can now recreate drone strikes in Ukraine from the comfort of their own home, with this newly ...

FORT LIBERTY, North Carolina—When Army special operations soldier Josh arrived in Poland to work with Ukrainian soldiers, his students were skeptical of his prowess in flying the high-speed racing ...

FORT SILL, Okla. — Fort Sill’s garrison leadership team recently completed an intensive two-and-a-half-day version of the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) University’s ...

Hold the date (Saturday, March 14, 2026) for the Indiana Statewide UAV/Drone Competition. Register for the third-annual 4-H UAV/Drone contest at https://indiana4 ...