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Inside the Secret Munich Factory Producing 10,000 Ukrainian Drones a Year
We have been covering the Build With Ukraine initiative since its earliest announcements, and this latest report from the Wall Street Journal fills in details that confirm what we have been reporting for months: the flow of military drone technology…
Starmer’s Drone Dilemma: How a Shahed at RAF Akrotiri Pulled Britain Deeper Into the Iran War
The runway at RAF Akrotiri was still being assessed for damage when the political fallout in London began. A drone, identified by Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides as Iranian-made, crashed into Britain’s sovereign air base in Cyprus just after midnight on…
Countering Iran’s Shahed drones: fighter jets, machine guns, and the friendly fire problem Kuwait just exposed
The Kuwait friendly fire shootdown of three U.S. F-15E Strike Eagles early Monday morning just proved, in the worst possible way, why coordinating layered air defenses against cheap Iranian drones is harder than buying the right hardware. Military experts are…
Russia Built Drones That Dodge. Ukraine Built Hunters.
,On the eastern front, the sky is more contested than the ground. And inside a downed Russian drone, Ukrainian soldiers found a circuit board that changed everything they thought they knew about the fight above their heads, as Armyinform reports.…
LUCAS Drone’s Starlink Terminal Alarms Russian Military Analysts — Musk Says It Violates Terms of Service
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…
Starlink Cuts Russia Off: How Musk’s Decision Flipped 300 Square Kilometers Back to Ukraine
I’ve been tracking the Starlink-drone connection since the first week of the 2022 invasion. But the full picture of what happened between a Russian BM-35 flying past a Kyiv government building and a complete collapse of Russian frontline communications in…
German Parts Inside Russian Geran Drones Expose a Sanctions Evasion Problem That Criminal Networks Are Exploiting
Every Geran drone that Russia fires at a Ukrainian city carries between eight and 12 transistors made in Germany. That detail, confirmed by Ukraine’s military intelligence service HUR to Deutsche Welle, is not a rounding error or a quirk of…
Iran’s Shahed drone hits RAF Akrotiri runway as UK Typhoon scores first Iranian drone kill over Qatar
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…
Iran’s Shahed-136 Hits Bahrain, Kuwait, and Dubai in Broad Gulf Strike Wave
The buzzing sound is unmistakable. Anyone who has watched footage of a Shahed-136 inbound over a city knows it — that flat, nasal drone of a small piston engine, audible seconds before impact. That sound hit Manama, Kuwait City, and…
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…
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…
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…