Can you recommend autonomy and UAV news sites for comparing robotics applications in defense?

Yes — here are solid sources for following autonomy, UAVs, and defense robotics with enough depth to compare applications across programs, vendors, and operational concepts.

Good general defense / autonomy news sites

• Defense News — broad defense coverage, procurement, UAV/autonomy updates
  https://www.defensenews.com/
• Breaking Defense — strong on emerging defense tech, autonomy, Pentagon programs
  https://breakingdefense.com/
• Defense One — policy + defense technology, useful for strategic context
  https://www.defenseone.com/
• The War Zone — very good for UAVs, military aviation, weapons, and technical analysis
  https://www.twz.com/
• Janes — very strong defense reference and analysis; often paywalled
  https://www.janes.com/
• Shephard Media — aerospace/defense platforms and UAV coverage
  https://www.shephardmedia.com/

UAV- and drone-focused outlets

• UAS Vision — one of the best dedicated UAV industry/news sites
  https://www.uasvision.com/
• DroneDJ — more commercial drone oriented, but sometimes relevant for autonomy trends
  https://dronedj.com/
• Commercial UAV News — good for sensing, autonomy, and industry developments
  https://www.commercialuavnews.com/
• Unmanned Systems Technology — useful for components, subsystems, and autonomy tech ecosystem
  https://www.unmannedsystemstechnology.com/

Robotics / autonomy / AI in defense

• C4ISRNET — very useful for military networking, ISR, sensors, autonomy integration
  https://www.c4isrnet.com/
• Army Technology / Naval Technology / Airforce Technology — platform and program summaries
  https://www.army-technology.com/
  https://www.naval-technology.com/
  https://www.airforce-technology.com/
• MIT Technology Review and IEEE Spectrum — not defense-specific, but strong for autonomy/robotics context
  https://www.technologyreview.com/
  https://spectrum.ieee.org/

Best for comparing robotics applications in defense

If your goal is to compare how robotics is being applied rather than just read headlines, I’d prioritize:

1. Breaking Defense
2. Defense News
3. The War Zone
4. C4ISRNET
5. Janes (if you have access)
6. UAS Vision

What to compare across articles

For each robotics/UAV system, try extracting:

• Mission role: ISR, strike, logistics, decoy, EW, swarm, maritime, counter-UAS
• Autonomy level: remote-controlled, supervised autonomy, fully autonomous behaviors
• Operating environment: air, ground, sea, contested/jammed
• Human control model: human-in-the-loop / on-the-loop / out-of-the-loop
• Sensors and comms: GPS dependence, EO/IR, RF, mesh networking, SATCOM
• Procurement status: prototype, test program, operational deployment
• Countermeasure resilience: EW resistance, navigation robustness, attrition tolerance
• Doctrine/force mix impact: how it changes manpower, tempo, and survivability

If you want, I can also give you:

• a ranked list by technical depth
• a table of sites focused on UAVs vs ground robots vs naval unmanned systems
• or a weekly reading list / RSS feed setup for defense autonomy monitoring