Joseph Trevithick

High above Iraq and Syria, Global Hawks are undoubtedly taking images of potential Islamic State targets and snatching up radio chatter.

Ever get the urge to take a sneaky peek into some of the Pentagon’s less well-publicized missions around the world?

With Russian aggression and the rise of the Islamic State, the Army is searching for tools to deal with what it's dubbed a “hybrid” of high and low-tech foes.

“She’s going up and down on him.”

Sporting more than a dozens antennas, the jet’s main job is to orbit above or near the battlefield and scoop up enemy communications chatter.

The clips, digitized last year, show the flying branch’s first pilotless attackers during test flights in the early 70s.

Aimed to knock down North Korean rockets, Washington and Seoul's missile-defense system already has its work cut out.

These “military-style” firearms have a long history in private hands.

That's good. And bad.

The ground combat branch is looking into all sorts of ways to blast drones out of the sky.

File under: "military oddities."

The move comes amid a resource crunch and shifting targets.