Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones have revolutionised the way wars are being fought. Over just a few years, the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation has changed the nature of conventional warfare. In 2020, the US used the MQ-9 Reaper weaponised drone with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles to carry out a targeted decapitation operation for the assassination of Qassem […]

In a rare failure of military modernisation, the newly built 5,000-ton-class destroyer by North Korea was damaged at a launch event on 21 May 2025 at the north-eastern port of Chongjin. North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency reported that the warship became unbalanced and was punctured in its bottom sections after a transport cradle on the stern section slid […]