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The economics finally broke. Gulf states spent the last week firing Patriot interceptors worth over $13.5 million each at Iranian Shaheds that cost $30,000 to build. Now, according to reporting by the Financial Times, the Pentagon and at least one Gulf government are in active talks to buy Ukrainian drone interceptors that do the same…
Two days ago, The National published a detailed breakdown of how to counter Iran’s Shahed-136 drone threat now hitting Gulf states. Fighters, heavy machine guns, Skyranger 35 systems, Gepard tanks, jamming guns — the full conventional toolkit. It’s a solid piece. But it has a notable gap. The word “interceptor” does not appear once. That’s…
France is sending anti-drone systems to Cyprus following the Iranian Shahed strike on RAF Akrotiri that hit the runway just after midnight on March 2. Reuters first reported the deployment decision. It makes France the first European ally to send dedicated counter-drone hardware to the island in direct response to the attack. It also confirms…
The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was struck by two drones overnight, triggering a fire and “minor material damage”, according to Saudi officials. No injuries were reported, but the message was loud anyway: US citizens need to get out of Saudi Arabia, and fast. Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry said the drones hit the embassy…
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.
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…
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…
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