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Russian Fiber-Optic Drone Headed For Children Was Stopped By A 12-Year-Old Boy In A Pear Tree
A 12-year-old Ukrainian boy named Anatolii Prokhorenko disabled a Russian fiber-optic FPV drone last month by snapping its hair-thin control cable with his bare hands, redirecting the drone away from his three younger siblings playing in the yard of his…
Monocrystal Files For Bankruptcy After Ukrainian Drone Strike And Sanctions Strip Its Markets
Russia’s Monocrystal, one of the world’s largest producers of synthetic sapphire used in missile guidance optics and drone sensors, has informed creditors it will file for bankruptcy with the Stavropol Krai Arbitration Court. The plant is part of Russia’s Energomera…
Cuba Now Holds 300 Russian And Iranian Military Drones Within 90 Miles Of Key West, U.S. Intelligence Tells Axios
Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones from Russia and Iran since 2023, and Cuban military officials have begun discussing plans to use them against the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. military vessels, and possibly Key West,…
FBI Counter-Drone Force For World Cup 2026 Will Run Just 60 Officers Across 11 Host Cities
The FBI will field roughly 60 specially trained state and local police officers across FIFA World Cup 2026 venues to detect and electronically disable hostile drones, according to a Bloomberg report published May 15. The bureau takes direct command of…
Ukraine Fiber Optic Spool Prices Jump More Than Eightfold As AI Data Center Demand Squeezes Drone Supply
A Ukrainian drone operator says his unit is now paying more than eight times what it used to for the fiber optic spools that feed their jam-proof FPV drones. Dimko Zhluktenko, co-founder of the Dzyga’s Paw charity fund and now…
U.S. Marines Get Three Weeks On FPV Drones As Pentagon Volume Gap With China And Russia Widens
The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune has spent three weeks training pilots on first-person-view attack drones, with deployment imminent and adversaries already capable of producing millions of similar systems each year. The New York Times…
FBI Charges Former Michigan Scholar With Hiding His Chinese Military Drone Company From U.S. Customs
The FBI has charged Chuan Wang, a former University of Michigan visiting scholar, with lying to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers about his work as co-founder and chief technology officer of a Chinese company that builds drones for the…
Helsing Aims for $18 Billion Valuation in $1.2 Billion Dragoneer-Led Round
Helsing is in advanced talks to raise $1.2 billion at a valuation of about $18 billion, according to the Financial Times. The round would push the Munich-based defense AI company past most of Europe’s other private tech firms and cement…
Russia’s GRU Drafted a Plan to Give Iran 5,000 Unjammable Fiber-Optic Drones for Use Against U.S. Forces, The Economist Reports
A confidential ten-page document prepared by the GRU, the intelligence directorate of Russia’s armed forces, proposed supplying Iran with 5,000 short-range fiber-optic drones of the type used in Ukraine, an unspecified number of satellite-guided drones equipped with Starlink terminals, and…
An-28 Skydiving Plane Has 222 Drone Kills. The New York Times Just Filmed Inside It.
The New York Times went inside an Antonov An-28 turboprop in a video posted May 5, 2026, riding along with the Ukrainian civilian crew that has converted a 1980s skydiving plane into one of the country’s most cost-effective drone hunters.…
Canadian Military Activates Counter-Drone Defenses At Naval Bases, Wrestles With Halifax Harbor Identification Problem
The Canadian Armed Forces have quietly activated counter-drone systems at major ports and air bases, starting with the naval installations that protect frigates, submarines, and Arctic patrol ships in port. Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, told…
Big Red One Tests OWS Drones for Anti-Armor Missions
Soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division’s engineer battalion at Fort Riley, Kansas, spent the last week of April launching one-way strike drones in a series of live experimentation events with a small defense contractor, as DVIDS reported. The exercise has…
