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Fedorov’s Gamble: Can Open-Source Battlefield Data Defeat Russian Jamming?
The footage is brutal and specific: FPV drones diving on vehicles as drivers swerve, soldiers leaping from trenches and hurling objects at incoming munitions. I’ve watched hundreds of these clips over the past three years of covering this war. Now…
Ottawa’s $900M Bet: Can Canada Lead the Western Drone Race?
Canada’s defense drone push just got a serious price tag. The Government of Canada will spend more than CA$900 million (roughly US$660 million, at approximately 0.73 USD/CAD) on unmanned systems, aerospace technology, and dual-use defense programs, with a dedicated Drone…
Ukraine Hits China-Free Drone Milestone — But Mass Production at That Standard Is Years Away
Back in July 2025, Ukrainian officials told us independence from Chinese drone components was “one or two quarters away.” The New York Times is reporting today that Ukraine has hit that target. In a basement workshop somewhere in Ukraine, dozens…
DJI AVATA 360: Price List Leaked and World Release Date: April 9th
Short update today: It’s one of those days where you suddenly get surprised by the complete DJI Avata 360 price list on a European webstore. The official teaser dropped yesterday but here are all new pictures. Update on the release…
Ukraine’s FirePoint: 200 Drones Daily, Seven Navigation Generations, Zero GPS Required
Ukraine’s top long-range strike drone company just put a number on its war production capacity, and it’s bigger than most people expected. In an interview published today by ArmyTV and reported by ArmyInform, FirePoint co-founder and chief designer Denys Shtilerman…
Ukraine’s $2,500 Drone Just Became America’s Most Urgent Defense Import
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…
Trump Sons Back Powerus Drone Roll-Up — But the Math Behind 10,000 Drones a Month Doesn’t Add Up
Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are backing Powerus, a West Palm Beach drone roll-up formed just last year, through a reverse merger that will take the company public on Nasdaq under the ticker “PUSA,” expected to close in summer…
Ukraine’s Armed Ground Robots Are Already Fighting — and the K2 Brigade Now Has the World’s First UGV Battalion
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…
Russian Kometa Navigation System Found in Iranian Drone That Hit RAF Akrotiri, Confirming Bidirectional Military Tech Pipeline
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 —…
UK’s 12th Regiment Deploys to Middle East as Drone Warfare Lessons Go Global
The kill chain the 12th Regiment Royal Artillery built in Ukraine — sense, warn, target — is now heading to the Middle East. Britain deployed its lead counter-drone formation to the region on March 3, 2026, according to reporting by…
Shahed-136 vs. LUCAS: The $35,000 Drone the US Reverse-Engineered From Iran Is Now Being Used Against It
That nasal piston buzz is hard to forget. Anyone who has watched footage from the Gulf over the past week, the kind shot from rooftops in Bahrain and apartment blocks in Dubai, recognizes the Shahed-136’s approach sound before the visual…
Drones and AI Are Changing How the World Finds Land Mines
In 2024, land mines and unexploded ordnance killed 1,945 people and injured 4,325 more. Ninety percent were civilians. Nearly half were children. Demining crews removed 105,640 mines that same year. The math is brutal, and it isn’t close. The Oldest…
