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Navy MQ-4C Triton Spies on Cuba in 12-Hour Drone Mission

A US Navy MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone spent more than 12 hours orbiting the coast of Cuba on April 16, tracing a pattern that passed Havana, Guantanamo

Rafael SuárezApr 22

Iran

24 MQ-9 Reapers Lost Over Iran: A $720 Million Problem

Operation Epic Fury has cost the US Air Force 24 MQ-9 Reaper drones since late February. At roughly $30 million per airframe, the losses add up to around $720 million in hardware alone, as National Interest reports. Iranian surface-to-air missiles are doing most of the shooting, and the clusters of lost drones map almost perfectly…

Rafael SuárezApr 20

Amazon

Ukraine’s Petcube Founder Built AI Drones That Strike Without a Pilot, and Investors Are Lining Up

Yaroslav Azhnyuk went from building a smartphone-controlled laser toy for bored pets to manufacturing AI-guided kamikaze drones that fly their final attack run without human input. The New York Times profiled Azhnyuk and his two defense companies today, documenting how his team at Odd Systems and The Fourth Law repurposed the same core technology stack,…

Haye KestelooApr 10

FPV

FPV Drone Strikes U.S. Black Hawk at Baghdad Base

A small, low-cost FPV drone struck a U.S. Army HH-60M Black Hawk helicopter at a base in Baghdad, Iraq, in what appears to be the first confirmed successful drone attack on an American military aircraft, as reported by The War Zone. The U.S. military has no official comment yet, but the video says everything. What…

Rafael SuárezApr 6

Ukraine

Poland Builds Its Own Shahed. They’re Calling It PLargonia.

Warsaw watched what Iranian drones did to Ukrainian cities and decided it needed one of its own. The PLargonia is almost ready. A Delta-Wing Loitering Munition Built in Poland Poland’s Air Force Institute of Technology and Autonomous Systems Center, known as OSA, have jointly developed a loitering munition that looks remarkably familiar, as Next Gen…

Rafael SuárezApr 3

Ukraine

Zelenskyy Says Ukraine Can Build 2,000 Interceptor Drones A Day, But Only With The Money To Do It

Zelenskyy told Reuters Ukraine can produce 2,000 interceptor drones per day if it has the budget. Here is what that figure actually means and why the math matters.

Haye KestelooMar 29

Russia

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 off from the Keşan Flight Training and Test Center in Edirne Province, flew sorties over…

Rafael SuárezMar 22

Ukraine

Ukraine’s Interceptor Elite: Meet the 5 Drones Reshaping Global Air Defense

Ukraine is scaling production of 3D-printed interceptor drones like the P1-SUN and STING to 2,000 units per day. As Gulf states eye these $1,000 systems to counter Iranian-designed threats, we analyze the five key models and the looming challenge of jet-powered Shahed-238 drones.

Haye KestelooMar 22

Iran

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