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.

The drones resemble Iranian-designed Shaheds, which Russia has used in devastating strikes on Ukraine throughout the war.

The U.S. military has deployed its first squadron of one-way attack drones to the Middle East. They were reverse-engineered from Iran’s Shahed drone.

A railway hub near Kyiv was attacked during a large-scale Russian drone and missile attack that damaged the depot and railway carriages, Ukrainian state railway company Ukrzaliznytsia said on Saturday.

Small drones controlled by fiber-optic cables have turned parts of the battlefield into webs, a Ukrainian special operator told Business Insider.

Europe on high alert for foreign interference as Irish police probe drone incursion against Ukrainian president’s plane

Big Brother Watch warns UK local authorities are creating 'spies in the sky' as councils rapidly expand drone fleets for law enforcement in an already surveilled nation.

In a disused warehouse at an undisclosed location in Ukraine, a military drone instructor who goes by the call sign "DC" showed CBS News a makeshift practice course that students must learn to fly the increasingly indispensable devices through before they join the country's defense against Russia.

Experts weigh the merits and limits of growing pivot in the region to uncrewed aircraft and the potential for 24/7 patrols

The War Department requested information earlier this week to gauge industry's willingness and ability to make some 300,000 drones