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Army Launches Drone and Robotics Leader Course at Fort Benning

Department of Commerce

US Commerce Department Streamlines Drone Export Controls: A Strategic Push Toward Allied Supply Chains

The policy change is narrow on paper. The implications are not. On January 21, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule that removes licensing requirements for certain commercial UAVs exported to most Wassenaar Arrangement member states and expands the License Exception STA pathway for select MT-controlled drone…

Haye KestelooMar 1

Ukraine

Ukraine and Netherlands Scale Drone Line to Target 50,000 Russian Losses Per Month

The numbers coming out of Ukraine’s Drone Line program in early 2026 are striking. In January and February, more than 1,000 specialized drone crews accounted for one in every three Russian soldiers killed on the front. Now Ukraine wants to make that ratio permanent, and the Netherlands is helping fund it. Here’s what you need…

Haye KestelooMar 1

Ukraine

Zelensky Says Ukraine’s Drone Interception Know-How Is ‘Irreplaceable’ as Middle East War Pulls in European Allies

Three years of absorbing more than 57,000 Shahed-type drone strikes has turned Ukraine into the world’s most battle-tested authority on shooting Iranian-designed weapons out of the sky. Now, as Iran’s drone and missile salvos spread across the Gulf and into Europe’s military footprint, that expertise has a new market. Here’s what’s happening: 57,000 Shaheds: Ukraine’s…

Haye KestelooMar 1

Ukraine

Ukraine Is Scaling Up Interceptor Drones as Russia’s Shahed Threat Outpaces Every Defense

At a secret training range north of Kyiv, a neurologist and a graphic designer are learning to shoot down drones. That’s not a quirky detail. It’s the clearest signal yet of how seriously Ukraine is taking the interceptor drone mission, and how fast the battlefield logic has shifted from expensive air defense systems to cheap,…

Haye KestelooMar 1

Police

Germany Gives Bundeswehr Shoot-Down Powers as Russian Drone Threat Forces Bundestag’s Hand

Germany’s parliament voted Thursday, February 27, 2026, to give the Bundeswehr authority to intercept, jam, and shoot down drones over German territory — a shift that would have been politically unthinkable just a few years ago. The Bundestag approved amendments to the Air Security Act with backing from the governing conservatives and Social Democrats; the…

Haye KestelooMar 1

Auterion

Ukrspecsystems Opens UK Drone Factory in Suffolk, Targeting 1,000 Units a Month for Ukrainian Forces

Ukraine’s biggest drone manufacturer just opened a production facility on British soil. Ukrspecsystems, described as Ukraine’s largest drone manufacturer, has converted a building in Mildenhall, Suffolk into an operational drone factory, backed by a £200 million investment. When running at full capacity, it will produce up to 1,000 drones per month for Ukrainian soldiers fighting…

Haye KestelooMar 1

ACSL

Fukushima Startup Bets on Drones to Rebuild a Region

The Fukushima Prefectural Government expanded revitalization subsidies into six technology categories — drones and robotics among them

Rafael SuárezMar 1

China

China Sends Drones to Iran, But Have They Already Been Used?

A report from Middle East Eye says China has sent “attack drones” to Iran, including small offensive systems like loitering munitions. At the same time, a separate report says Iran is nearing a deal to buy Chinese CM-302 supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, which would deepen the China-to-Iran defense pipeline in a way the U.S. Navy…

Zachary PeeryMar 1

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