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Weapons technology

July 2024

  • A drone operated by AI

    AI’s ‘Oppenheimer moment’: autonomous weapons enter the battlefield

  • Tomahawk cruise missile, launched by the US navy, 2011

    Moscow angered by US plan to site long-range missiles in Germany

June 2024

  • A collage with Biden and Netanyahu portraits.

    White House disputes Netanyahu’s claim that US is withholding weapons from Israel

    Israeli leader made claim in X post, although Biden administration says it does not ‘know what he is talking about’
  • Pope Francis

    Pope calls on G7 leaders to ban use of autonomous weapons

    Pontiff says machines should never be able to decide whether human beings live or die
  • A missile is launched out of a mobile carrier.

    Putin warns that Russia could supply arms to other countries to strike west

    Comments come after US senator confirmed that Ukraine has recently used US weapons to strike inside Russia

May 2024

  • A worker handles artillery shells in a factory.

    Biden changes stance to allow Ukraine to fire US-supplied weapons into Russia

    US official says policy change relates to ‘counter-fire purposes’ and prohibits long-range attacks inside of Russia
  • Robot dog with mounted gun surrounded by Chinese and Cambodian soldiers

    Meet the Chinese army’s latest weapon: the gun-toting dog

    China shows off mechanical canine with automatic rifle on its back at joint military drills with Cambodia
    • ‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms

    • Israeli airstrike that killed seven health workers in Lebanon used US munition, analysis reveals

    • David Cameron commits £3bn a year in aid to Ukraine ‘for as long as necessary’

March 2024

  • Putin: Russia 'technically' ready for nuclear war – video

  • Visitors stand at the Airbus pavilion at an exhibition in  Doha

    Europe is unprepared for risks from Russia and Trump, says Airbus boss

February 2024

  • Houses and cars destroyed in a fire following an attack by Russia’s Shahed drones in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on 12 February 2024.

    The Guardian view on the new drone wars: as prices fall, casualties mount

    Editorial: Never before have unmanned aerial vehicles been used so intensely in conflict, with even commercial devices enlisted in battle

November 2023

  • US ballistic missile Ohio-class submarine USS Kentucky is anchored at Busan Naval Base in Busan on July 19, 2023.

    Why is the US ramping up production of plutonium ‘pits’ for nuclear weapons?

  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy with Timothy Snyder

    Yale historian says west can break Ukraine stalemate with more military aid

September 2023

  • A STRIX uncrewed air system from BAE Systems on show at DSEI

    Record numbers expected as Europe’s biggest arms fair opens in London

    Egypt, Vietnam and Indonesia among countries sending delegations to four-day DSEI at ExCeL

August 2023

  • Ball Aerospace Begins Final Cryogenic Testing of Webb Telescope Flight Mirrors.

    BAE agrees to buy space technology firm Ball Aerospace for $5.6bn

  • Visitor sits in model of the Tempest fighter jet at an air show.

    Saudis ask to join UK, Italy and Japan’s joint air combat programme

  • US military helicopters providing support for ground troops in Vietnam in 1966.

    Weatherwatch
    ‘Make mud, not war’: how US used weather warfare in Vietnam

  • Leopard 1 tank

    Germany arranges supply of 30 Leopard 1 tanks for Ukraine

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