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Following Prime Minister Keir Starmer's decision to grant the U.S. access to British bases for offensive strikes, an Iranian-made Shahed drone hit RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Explore the political fallout, the looming shadow of the Iraq War, and Britain’s urgent need for battle-tested Ukrainian counter-drone expertise.
The Kuwait friendly fire shootdown of three U.S. F-15E Strike Eagles proved why coordinating layered air defenses against Iranian drones is harder than buying the right hardware.
Mexican Army Special Forces killed Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes this past weekend in Tapalpa, Jalisco — the most wanted drug lord in Mexico, with a $10 million US bounty on his head. Within hours of federal confirmation, the predictable question surfaced: does the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) die with him? The answer,…
Combat footage and CENTCOM imagery from Operation Epic Fury tell part of the story. Russian military bloggers are filling in the rest — and they don’t like what they see. A thread posted March 1, 2026 by open-source analyst ChrisO_wiki on X aggregated commentary from three prominent Russian Telegram channels, all sounding the alarm over…
I’ve been tracking the Starlink-drone connection since the first week of the 2022 invasion. But the full picture of what happened between a Russian BM-35 flying past a Kyiv government building and a complete collapse of Russian frontline communications in February 2026 is only now coming into focus, thanks to a deep investigative account by…
Every Geran drone that Russia fires at a Ukrainian city carries between eight and 12 transistors made in Germany. That detail, confirmed by Ukraine’s military intelligence service HUR to Deutsche Welle, is not a rounding error or a quirk of pre-war stockpiles. It is a structural dependency — one that dummy companies inside Germany are…
An Iranian drone struck the runway at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus around midnight local time on Sunday, March 2, 2026. The strike caused limited damage and no casualties. Hours earlier, an RAF Typhoon operating out of Qatar had shot down an Iranian drone in what the Ministry of Defence called a “defensive air patrol,” marking…
There is a specific sound a drone makes at 690 km/h. It is not the low hum you hear at a park. It is a high-pitched scream — brief, startling, and then gone. Most people watching laugh. They cannot process what just happened. Benjamin Biggs, the Melbourne aerospace engineer behind the Blackbird speed drone, has…
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