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Ukraine Says Drones Now Destroy Over 80% of Enemy Targets, and Moscow Is Not Amused

War has always been about who adapts faster, and right now Ukraine is speed running that lesson with a buzzing soundtrack. According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence and Defense News, more than 80 percent of confirmed enemy targets are now destroyed by drones, most of them built at home, assembled locally, and apparently delivered with…

SpaceX implements Starlink speed limit to ground Russian strike drones in Ukraine
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SpaceX implements Starlink speed limit to ground Russian strike drones in Ukraine

Two days after Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov thanked SpaceX for its “quick response” to Russian drones using Starlink connectivity, we’re now seeing the first concrete result: a speed-based kill switch. Starlink terminals are now displaying a “Movement speed is too high” error and cutting connectivity when they detect movement above approximately 75-90 km/h (47-56…

Russia's Starlink-Guided Shaheds Hit Moving Ukrainian Train, Kill 5: Musk Calls Polish FM 'Drooling Imbecile' For Demanding Action
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Russia’s Starlink-Guided Shaheds Hit Moving Ukrainian Train, Kill 5: Musk Calls Polish FM ‘Drooling Imbecile’ For Demanding Action

You cannot hit a moving passenger train with a GPS coordinate. A pre-programmed Shahed-136 flies to a fixed point on a map and detonates. If the target moves, the drone misses. Three Shaheds hit the Barvinkove-Lviv-Chop train in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Tuesday anyway, striking not the locomotive but a passenger car in the center…

Western Chips Power Russia’s New Geran 5 Drone
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Western Chips Power Russia’s New Geran 5 Drone

Russia’s drone program just revealed another uncomfortable truth for the West. Even under heavy sanctions, American and European microchips are still showing up inside Russian weapons, this time inside a new high speed attack drone called the Geran 5, as Kyiv Independent reports. As we previously wrote on DroneXL, Ukrainian forces shot down two of…

Ukraine’s Pay Per Kill Drone Program Scales Fast
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Ukraine’s Pay Per Kill Drone Program Scales Fast

Ukraine has quietly turned battlefield necessity into a brutally efficient incentive system. According to newly appointed Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, a pay per kill program targeting Russian Shahed style attack drones has helped Ukraine secure roughly 40,000 interceptor drones in a single month, as Business Insider reports. The idea is simple and ruthless in execution.…

Anduril Launches AI Grand Prix: $500K Autonomous Drone Racing Competition Where Software Engineers Compete For Jobs
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Anduril Launches AI Grand Prix: $500K Autonomous Drone Racing Competition Where Software Engineers Compete For Jobs

Anduril is launching the AI Grand Prix, an autonomous drone racing competition where humans don’t fly the drones—they write the software that does. The $500,000 prize pool comes with something potentially more valuable: a job offer that bypasses Anduril’s standard recruiting process, TechCrunch reports. Palmer Luckey’s Pitch: Autonomy Has Arrived The AI Grand Prix is…

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