Shaheds, Lancets, fiber-optic FPVs and the counter-drone scramble — Russia’s drone war, tracked.
Ukraine has reached a significant milestone in drone manufacturing: it can now produce drones using zero imported Chinese components. DroneXL breaks down what the New York Times report actually means, what's driving it, and why full-scale China-free production remains years away.
Ukraine's FirePoint now produces 200 long-range strike drones per day across the FP-1 and FP-2 families, with capacity to double or triple output. Here's what the latest ArmyTV interview reveals — including a GPS-free navigation system built through seven generations of combat development.
The Sting interceptor drone costs roughly $2,500. A single Patriot PAC-3 missile costs over $3 million. That economic gap — a ratio I’ve been covering since Wild Hornets first started mass-producing the Sting in late 2024 — just became the central problem of a new war. And Ukraine is the only country with a proven…
The kill zone on Ukraine’s eastern front has pushed out to roughly 15 kilometers from the line of contact. At that distance, sending infantry forward isn’t a tactical decision anymore — it’s a casualty guarantee. Ukraine’s answer, confirmed this week in a BBC report by Russia editor Vitaly Shevchenko titled “Armed robots take to the…
The debris from the Iranian drone that struck RAF Akrotiri on March 2, 2026, is doing more than revealing a gap in Britain’s air defenses. A specific component recovered from the wreckage — a Russian-made Kometa satellite navigation system — confirms what intelligence analysts and Ukrainian forensic teams have been building a case for since…
Ukraine's GUR has launched a massive forensic database detailing 5,534 foreign components found in Russian weaponry. From Nvidia AI chips in autonomous Shaheds to German transistors in jet-powered Geran-3 drones, see the full teardowns and the global manufacturers fueling the conflict.
,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. The Circuit Board That Explained Everything Major Ihor Romanenko of Ukraine’s 3rd Separate Heavy Mechanized…
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…
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