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The US Commerce Department added 15 Chinese companies to its restricted Entity List on Wednesday for facilitating the purchase of American electronic components found in weaponized drones operated by Hamas and Houthi militants, according to a final rule published in the Federal Register. The blacklisting marks another escalation in US efforts to disrupt supply chains…
Chinese drone specialists have been conducting clandestine technical development work on military unmanned aerial vehicles at a sanctioned Russian weapons manufacturer, according to a Reuters exclusive report citing European security officials and internal documents. The collaboration between Chinese experts and IEMZ Kupol, a state-owned Russian arms maker under Western sanctions, represents a sig
Iran’s low-cost Shahed-136 drone has sparked an international arms race, with militaries worldwide scrambling to develop copycat versions of the weapon that has proven devastatingly effective in Ukraine, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The Iranian-designed drone, costing just tens of thousands of dollars and capable of flying over 1,000 miles, has fundamentally changed…
In the world of counter-drone technology, the options have always been a trade-off. You can use a messy jammer, an expensive missile
Debris, believed to be from a Russian drone, was discovered in three different locations, sparking another investigation by the Polish military and
More than a dozen advanced kamikaze drones with ranges of up to 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) were identified near Nyala airport in Sudan’s Darfur region in May, signaling a major escalation in the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) drone capabilities, according to images analyzed by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab and verified by Reuters. The new…
During a drone assault on Ukraine, several Russian drones breached the sovereign airspace of Poland, a NATO member.
Russia is rapidly modifying Iranian-designed Shahed attack drones with onboard cameras, modem antennas, and jet engines to enable remote piloting at higher speeds, according to a UNITED24-sourced report published by Defence Blog, signaling a major escalation aimed at overwhelming Ukraine’s air defenses and striking dynamic targets in real time. Source: UNITED24 via Defence Blog. Mass…
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