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The atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946 were too dangerous for conventional aircraft to observe. Pioneering remote-controlled drones, however, were a perfect match.

The F-35 in South Carolina is not the first important asset to go missing for a spell.

The F-35 that was recently unaccounted for is not the first jet to require a search or recovery, as have drones and even nuclear weapons.

A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.

Switchblade drones can fly like a small uncrewed aircraft, but have an explosive charge on board that can take out a target.

For better or worse, war breeds innovation, and drones were one of the biggest of World War I and World War II.

It's a travesty that the First World War so often gets brushed aside in favor of discussing its ostensibly more present-day impactful second boogaloo. That's especially the case when it comes to the fighter aircraft these pioneer aviators flew into combat.

Dealing death from a safe distance has been the aim of fighters since the earliest times, James Rogers analyses what it tells us about humanity

5 military weapons that are way older than you think Logan Nye , US Navy/MCS 2nd Class Devin M. Langer The hardware used on modern battlefields is only getting more sophisticated. But some of those weapons have been in use in some form for hundreds of years.  Except all three of those military technologies have been in service for hundreds of years. Heres the story behind five modern weapons that have been in service for hundreds...

However, both countries surrendered before the plan was executed. Key point: All great powers learn from each others weaponry. Here is how the Allies copied Nazi V-1 cruise missiles. Exactly one month after the first of thousands of Nazi V-1 “Buzz Bomb” cruise missiles began raining terror and death on London, a Dakota transport plane landed on July 13, 1944, at Wright-Patterson Field in Ohio bearing a sinister cargo: one ton of V-1 parts recovered from dud missiles. This first appeared ea...