Shaheds, Lancets, fiber-optic FPVs and the counter-drone scramble — Russia’s drone war, tracked.
Maksim Filchenkov, the GRU officer sourcing Japanese components for Russian drones and missiles, has fled Japan after a press investigation blew his cover. The pipeline he built stays open.
Ukrainian firms The Fourth Law and TAF Industries have certified the Kolibri 10 Advance, an FPV strike drone that can complete its final attack run autonomously after a human operator designates the target.
Ukrainian long-range drones hit two Wildberries logistics hubs that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says were supplying drone-production components and navigation equipment to Russia's war effort, in the deadliest deep strike inside Russia in more than two years.
Mykhailo Fedorov, the 35-year-old who built Ukraine's drone warfare machine and then ran the ministry that wielded it, was pushed out as defense minister after just six months in the post.
Ukraine plans to sign drone agreements with at least seven NATO countries before the end of 2026, and some signatures could come as soon as this week’s alliance summit in Ankara. Davyd Aloian, deputy secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, set the target in an interview published Monday. Six countries have already signed:…
A Ukrainian studio has trained more than 7,000 military drone operators on a simulator built to behave almost exactly like a real FPV strike drone, and it hands the software to the armed forces for free. The Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator, or UFDS, comes from Simtech Solutions, a roughly 30-person team whose founders pulled their…
A London think tank has assembled the fullest picture yet of the drone incursions that rattled European airbases, airports and nuclear sites since late 2024, and its central claim is serious: Russian intelligence ran a coordinated surveillance campaign launched from vessels in Moscow’s sanctions-dodging “shadow fleet.” The 144-incident dataset is real, the pattern is unsettling,…
A US pilot says he saw an Iranian "jellyfish" drone swarm before ejecting. US intelligence isn't convinced, and a Chinese missile is the likelier cause.
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