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China Floods Russia With 328,000 Miles of Drone Cable While Sending Ukraine Just 72—Fueling Moscow’s Battlefield Edge
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Blue UAS Architects Predict 2026 Drone Attack, Highlight Pentagon’s Mass Production Gap

The two officials who built the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit and helped create the Blue UAS framework are warning that a drone attack on US soil is coming in 2026. Their analysis exposes a fundamental tension in American drone policy: the same security-first approach that justified expensive domestic alternatives may have slowed the mass production…

Ukraine Evaluates US Autonomous Drone Boats That Its Own Combat Success Inspired
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Ukraine Evaluates US Autonomous Drone Boats That Its Own Combat Success Inspired

I’ve been tracking Ukraine’s transformation from drone importer to NATO’s leading drone warfare teacher for months. This week brought a development that captures how far the tables have turned: Ukrainian officials traveled to Portugal to evaluate autonomous systems from a company that openly credits Ukraine’s battlefield success for its existence. The irony writes itself. But…

Ukraine Claims Underwater Drone Crippled $500M Russian Submarine in Historic First
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Ukraine Claims Underwater Drone Crippled $500M Russian Submarine in Historic First

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) just announced what may be the most significant drone warfare milestone since the war began: the first-ever underwater drone attack on a submarine. We’ve been tracking Ukraine’s naval drone evolution for three years, from civilian DJI quadcopters to AI-enabled surface vessels. Now they’ve gone subsurface, and Russia’s “safe haven” at Novorossiysk…

Seven Students Expose Russia's Drone Motherships After Intel Agencies Failed
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Seven Students Expose Russia’s Drone Motherships After Intel Agencies Failed

We’ve been covering Europe’s drone crisis for months, from military reconnaissance drones shutting down Munich Airport to the EU’s scramble to build a multi-billion-euro “drone wall.” But while European intelligence agencies stumbled through bureaucratic fog, seven journalism students just delivered the most comprehensive investigation yet into who’s actually behind Germany’s mysterious drone swar

NYT Warns AI Drone Swarms Could ‘Hunt and Kill on Their Own’ as Pentagon Loses War Games
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NYT Warns AI Drone Swarms Could ‘Hunt and Kill on Their Own’ as Pentagon Loses War Games

The New York Times Editorial Board just issued one of the most alarming assessments of American military readiness in recent memory, and drones are at the center of it. In a sweeping editorial series titled “Overmatched,” the newspaper warns that cheap, autonomous drone swarms are reshaping warfare faster than the Pentagon can adapt, and that…

Royal Navy's HMS Tyne being escorted by a uncrewed survace vehicle (USV), or Drone Ships
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Why The Royal Navy is Adding 20 New Hybrid “Drone Ships” To Its Arsenal

Okay, these drone ships aren’t a “hybrid” like a Toyota Prius, but The Royal Navy just put a number on its next big jump into a semi-autonomous fleet: twenty Unmanned Surface Vessels, or USVs, under a program called Project Beehive. These vessels won’t replace manned vessels like frigates or destroyers. Instead, they will act as…

General Cherry Unveils AIR Pro Interceptor Drone
Ukraine

General Cherry Unveils AIR Pro Interceptor Drone

General Cherry, a fast growing Ukrainian drone manufacturer, has introduced the AIR Pro interceptor drone, a compact but extremely fast platform built to hunt down enemy reconnaissance and attack UAVs across the front, as Militarnyi reports. The company says the AIR Pro has already been officially codified and approved for use throughout the Security and…

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