Below the reader will find recent news about unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that are used in conflicts (Ukraine, Africa, etc.), new developments in drone use, the DoD’s anti-drone school, and training by militaries for using drones during combat operations. Curated articles on the topics below are provided:

• Featured Topic – Joint C-sUAS University
• SOCOM, DAWG, and Drones
• Turkish Drones Built in U.S?
• America’s Drone Crisis Has No Easy Fix
• A-29 in a Counter Drone Role?
• Limitations of Drones
• Russia Testing NATO
• Drone Offense and Defense for Taiwan
• Malaysia – Turkey Drone Deal
• Turkey’s TALAY Ocean Skimmer
• Houthis: From Missiles to Drones
• NATO’s Drone Crisis

Featured Topic

This articles featured topic is about the Department of Defense’s Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft System University located at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Students at the school use two handheld systems that work in tandem as a layered defense against drones. One used electronic measures and the other is kinetic. These two systems are known as the Dronebuster (EW) and the Smart Shooter (kinetic). Students train on the Smart Shooter in a virtual reality lab before heading to the range. It is expensive to shoot down drones in practice at the range, so students use balloons suspended by a tether from drones that fly over the range.

The Joint C-sUAS University became operational in 2023. Fort Sill is the home to the Army Field Artillery School and Army Air Defense Artillery School. The school teaches solders, sailors, airmen, and Marines much more than the two handheld drone systems in the preceding paragraph. They also learn to use various fixed-site counter-small UAS systems as well as how to plan strategies, train others, and prepare their units and installation for future threats.

Read more about the C-sUAS University in “Drone Busting: Smart Devices Work Together to Knock Out UAS Threats”, by Katie Lange, Pentagon News, September 23, 2025. Top image: A sign identifies the range complex for the Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft System University at Fort Sill, Okla., Aug. 20, 2025. (credit: Air Force Staff Sgt. Madelyn Keech)