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Tymur Fatkullin Hunts Russian Shaheds In A Six-Ton Skydiving Plane, And The New Yorker Just Profiled Him
The New Yorker published a short documentary on its YouTube channel on May 26, 2026, profiling Ukrainian aerobatics champion Tymur Fatkullin as he flies nighttime intercepts against Russian Shahed drones in a six-ton Antonov An-28 that carried skydivers before the…
Kalashnikov’s SKAT-220 and Its 99 MPH Speed Claim
Kalashnikov rolled out a new drone this week and wrapped a familiar Russian word around it: record. The SKAT-220 is a lighter, faster spin on the company’s SKAT-350M, and Kalashnikov says it tops out around 99 mph (160 km/h), which…
Green Berets Drop 500-lb Glider Drones in NATO Drill
U.S. Army Special Forces and a Romanian Air Force crew dropped autonomous cargo gliders over North Macedonia during Trojan Footprint 26, the largest U.S.-led special operations exercise in Europe. The aircraft were DZYNE’s Grasshopper resupply gliders, the same family the…
Russia’s Geran-4 Jet Drone Was Built To Beat Ukraine’s $2,000 Interceptors, GUR Says
Russia has started flying a new jet-powered attack drone, the Geran-4, and Ukrainian intelligence says the reason is blunt: the cheap interceptor drones Kyiv has been throwing at Russian Shaheds got good enough to force a redesign. Ukraine’s Main Directorate…
Pentagon’s $500 Million Counter-Drone Deal Turns Ukraine’s Cheap-Interceptor Math Into U.S. Doctrine
The Pentagon has awarded Perennial Autonomy a three-year contract worth up to $500 million for drone-killing interceptors, the largest single counter-unmanned-aircraft deal the U.S. military has signed. Joint Interagency Task Force 401, the Defense Department organization that tests and buys…
Ukraine’s Shahed-Killing Drones Became the Export Gulf Monarchies and U.S. Commanders Now Want
Ukraine spent four years learning to shoot down Iranian-designed Shahed drones because Russia gave it no other option. That skill is now a product on offer to Gulf monarchies and European governments, and increasingly to the U.S. military. President Volodymyr…
One Drone Empties a NATO Capital
On Wednesday, May 20, 2026, Lithuania closed the airspace over Vilnius International Airport at 10:00 AM local time. Twenty minutes later, every cell phone in the capital pinged with a message ordering residents into shelters. The trigger was a single…
Ukraine’s 5th Assault Brigade Trades $2,000 Sting Drones For $50,000 Russian Shaheds On Camera
Ukraine’s 5th Assault Brigade is destroying Russian Shahed-type attack drones with the domestically produced Sting interceptor, a 3D-printed quadcopter that costs between 4 and 10 percent of what its target costs to build. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty published a video…
Belarus Unveils Scanner 2.1 Acoustic Drone Detection System
Belarus has unveiled a new acoustic drone detection system called Scanner 2.1, developed by the Belarusian company InnoTech Solutions and presented at the State Authority for Military Industry on May 19, 2026, according to Belarusian state media reporting. The system…
U.S. Navy Tests BlackSea GARC and Seasats Lightfish in Norway
The U.S. Navy is running an exercise called Arctic Sentry 2026 off the coast of northern Norway through May 24, putting unmanned surface vessels and underwater drones through their paces in cold-climate maritime operations. The two surface platforms identified in…
CiS Unveils ORKA Dock, A Self-Operating Drone Hangar Built To Launch From Moving Uncrewed Boats
German autonomous aerial systems developer CiS unveiled the ORKA Dock at the Combined Naval Event in Farnborough on May 19, 2026, calling it the world’s first fully autonomous drone launch and recovery system that operates from a moving uncrewed surface…
Russian Drones Attack CNN Crew 14 Times On Ukraine’s ‘Road Of Life’
A CNN crew walking a short stretch of the Druzhkivka-to-Kostyantynivka supply road in eastern Ukraine survived at least 14 Russian drone attacks and close encounters during what was supposed to be an hour’s walk each way. The patrol took five…