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Iranian Operative Nabbed at LAX Over $70M Sudan Drone Deal
Federal agents arrested 44-year-old Shamim Mafi at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday night as she tried to board a flight to Turkey. Prosecutors say the Woodland Hills resident spent years brokering Iranian weapons deals, including a $70 million contract…
Kraken KATFISH Launches Itself From Turkish Navy Drone Boat
Kraken Robotics just pulled off something navies have been trying to make practical for years. The Canadian firm integrated its KATFISH towed sonar onto Sefine’s RD-22 unmanned surface vessel off the coast of Istanbul, then launched and recovered the system…
Japan Drops Apaches, Bets $70M on Drones Instead
Japan just put real money behind the idea that attack helicopters are finished. The country’s fiscal year 2026 defense budget, enacted on April 7, includes ¥11.1 billion ($69.7 million) to buy five “wide-area UAVs” for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force,…
XDOWN’s STUD Drone Goes From Backpack to Airborne in 2 seconds Flat
US defense startup XDOWN has unveiled the STUD (Small Tactical Unmanned Drone), a hand-launched UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) designed to reach active flight from a stowed position in two seconds. According to NextGen Defense, a single soldier can carry 8…
Baykar Unveils K2: A Cruise Missile That Costs Like a Drone
Turkey’s Baykar unveiled the K2 Kamikaze UAV on March 14, and the promotional video was set to Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2. That detail tells you something about how Baykar sees itself at this point, as QUWA reported. Five K2s lifted…
Ukraine Brings $35–50 Billion Drone Deal Back To US Talks As Trump Insists Washington Doesn’t Need Kyiv’s Help
Ukraine’s negotiating team will push a long-stalled drone production deal when it meets with US officials on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Friday, March 20. According to Bloomberg, Zelenskyy said he remains ready to sign the agreement whenever Trump…
Zelenskyy’s UK Parliament Speech Puts Ukraine’s Drone Deal Back on the Table — and Trump’s Dismissal on the Record
Speaking before the UK Parliament today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy laid out the most detailed public case yet for Ukraine as the world’s essential drone defense partner — and made clear that the Drone Deal proposed to the United States…
Ukraine’s Sting Drone Is The Most Wanted Weapon In The Gulf. Ukraine Can’t Legally Sell It Yet.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Saudi Aramco was in talks with Wild Hornets to buy Sting interceptor drones for its oil infrastructure. Wild Hornets denied it the same day. Both statements are true — and the gap…
FBI’s Iran Drone Warning to California Was Built on a Single Unverified Tip — Here’s What the Bulletin Actually Said
In late February, the FBI quietly distributed a security bulletin to California law enforcement warning that Iran had “allegedly aspired” to launch a surprise drone attack on West Coast targets from an unidentified vessel off the coast. The bulletin sat…
Europe Picked Airbus to Build Its Next Military Drone. Here Is What That Means.
Europe has a drone problem. Not a shortage of them. A shortage of the right ones, built by Europeans, owned by Europeans, and answerable to European defense priorities rather than foreign supply chains. The M2UAS project is one piece of…
German Parts Inside Russian Geran Drones Expose a Sanctions Evasion Problem That Criminal Networks Are Exploiting
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…
Germany Weighs MQ-28 And Valkyrie Drones For 2029 CCA
Germany is shopping for a robotic wingman that can fight, strike, think, and still find its way home if the signal goes dark. According to United24 Media, Berlin is evaluating several unmanned aerial vehicles for a future unmanned fighter bomber…