Shaheds, Lancets, fiber-optic FPVs and the counter-drone scramble — Russia’s drone war, tracked.
Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency GUR says Russia has deployed a newly identified jet powered attack drone called the Geran-5, a platform that departs sharply from earlier Geran models derived from Iran’s Shahed series, Business Insider reports. Unlike the familiar delta wing layout of previous Geran loitering munitions, the Geran-5 uses a traditional fixed wing airframe.…
UK Ministry of Defence commits £240,000 to NMITE drone degree. Program trains 20 specialists annually as Al Carns confirms drones now kill more than artillery.
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s newly appointed Defense Minister, has announced that Ukrainian troops will begin fielding a domestically produced replacement for the Chinese-made DJI Mavic drone. The homegrown alternative promises the same camera quality but with extended flight range, marking a significant step in reducing Kyiv’s dependency on Beijing-manufactured reconnaissance drones. The Developme
The numbers from Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi are stark: Russia currently produces 404 Shahed-type drones daily and plans to more than double that capacity to 1,000 units per day. That production target, revealed in an interview published Sunday by Ukrainian media outlet LB.ua, would represent a five to six-fold increase in Russia’s ability…
The Wall Street Journal just obtained something no Western media outlet has managed before—camera access inside the command center of Ukraine’s deadliest drone unit. What they found wasn’t a scrappy volunteer operation anymore. It was an industrial-scale killing machine that runs 24 hours a day, destroying Russian equipment at a rate that’s made its commander…
The drone skills you learned for your Part 107 business are now battlefield capabilities. That’s the uncomfortable reality buried in a massive New York Times investigation published this week, and it should concern every commercial operator in America. C.J. Chivers spent 18 months reporting from Ukrainian frontlines, test ranges, and drone workshops. What he documented…
We have been tracking the evolution of Russia’s Shahed drones since at least the invasion of Ukraine, and the latest development is the most significant tactical shift yet. Just five weeks after they strapped an R-60 air-to-air missile to a Shahed, they’ve done it again, this time with a MANPADS. This isn’t experimentation anymore. This…
Ukraine did not defeat Russia’s Black Sea fleet with destroyers or submarines, it did it with remote controls, fiber optics, and engineers who learned faster than their enemy expected. When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Ukraine effectively lost its navy, and when the full scale invasion began in 2022, the imbalance at sea looked permanent.…
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