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.

An Irish navy ship spotted up to five drones operating near the flight path of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's aircraft as he arrived for a state visit to Ireland on Monday, local media reported on Thursday.

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.

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

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to embark on the largest unmanned systems buildup in U.S. history — an effort that could deliver more than 300,000 small drones over the next several years.

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

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

The Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones are intended to mirror Iran 's Shahed-136 uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), providing a low-cost, scalable capability for autonomous, swarm-style operations.

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.

Cal Fire San Benito-Monterey has the largest unmanned aircraft systems program of its kind in the state, in both number of pilots and flight hours.