Shaheds, Lancets, fiber-optic FPVs and the counter-drone scramble — Russia’s drone war, tracked.
The Shahed-136’s most dangerous feature was never its warhead. It was the mesh network quietly stitching dozens of drones together mid-flight, turning each surviving drone into a signal repeater for every other. Ukrainian signals intelligence just severed that network at its root — by destroying the relay stations Russia had been running off Belarusian soil.…
A soldier in a trench, wearing a $300 pair of FPV goggles and holding a hobbyist controller, can guide a commercial drone carrying a $500 payload into a $5 million tank. The math is brutal and it only moves in one direction.
A Russian drone approached the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle while the warship was docked in Malmö, Sweden, during a strategic visit, according to United24 Media. The Swedish Armed Forces detected the unmanned aircraft and immediately deployed electronic warfare countermeasures. The drone’s approach was disrupted before it could reach the carrier. Reports indicate the…
A tidal wave of drones has just landed in the hands of one of Ukraine’s most capable special units. Soldiers from the Special Operations Center “A” of the Security Service of Ukraine, better known as Alpha, have received more than 25,000 drones from the Come Back Alive Foundation. According to the foundation, this marks the…
The timing of this essay says as much as the content. Published today by West Point’s Modern War Institute, retired General James Mingus and Lieutenant Colonel Maggie Harris lay out what readers of this site have watched unfold in real time for three years: drones and ground robots are rewriting how wars are fought and…
Since Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, the High North has shifted from geopolitical afterthought to frontline chessboard. As NATO Arctic
The Financial Times sent reporters into eastern Ukraine and came back with a term that every military planner should memorize: the “kill zone.” It is the strip of land closest to the front lines where anything that moves, on wheels, on foot, or on treads, gets targeted and destroyed by first-person-view drones. We have been…
Europe is not just designing a long range loitering munition. It is redesigning how such weapons are built. Under the European Long-range Strike Approach framework, the One Way Effector 500 Plus is emerging as a deliberately simple, industrial scale strike system, as Interesting Engineering reports. And the word simple keeps coming up for a reason.…
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