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Turkey’s Drone Industry Faces a NATO Reality Check
Turkey did not wake up one morning and decide to dominate the global combat drone market. It crept there quietly, selling capable aircraft to buyers who wanted results fast, paperwork slow, and prices low, as War on The Rocks reports.…
Michigan’s 15-Bill SHIELD Drone Package Collides With Federal Law It Claims to Respect
Michigan legislators just introduced the most ambitious state drone regulation package in the country. It also has the most obvious federal preemption problems of any state drone package in the country. The 15-bill SHIELD legislation, sponsored by state Rep. William…
SpaceX confirms Starlink crackdown on Russian drones worked as Ukraine moves to disconnect all unauthorized terminals
Elon Musk confirmed on Sunday that SpaceX‘s measures to stop Russia from using Starlink on strike drones have worked. Hours later, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced the next phase: a full terminal authorization system that will disconnect every unverified…
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…
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…
RQ-170 ‘Beast of Kandahar’ Filmed Taxiing at Creech AFB in Rare Daylight Footage Weeks After Venezuela Mission
New video footage shows the RQ-170 Sentinel, one of America’s most secretive stealth drones, taxiing in broad daylight at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. The footage, captured by aviation observer Uncanny Expeditions and shared on X by @thenewarea51 on…
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…
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…
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…
Helsing And Stark Beat Rheinmetall For €600 Million German Loitering Munition Contracts
German defense startups Helsing and Stark Defence are set to receive €300 million each in military orders for loitering munitions, while defense giant Rheinmetall AG gets passed over after failing to deliver a working prototype, Bloomberg reports. Helsing’s HX-2 And…
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…
China’s PLA Demos 200-Drone Swarm Controlled by Single Soldier, Revealing the Pentagon’s Worst Nightmare
The People’s Liberation Army broadcast footage this week of a single operator directing 200 fixed-wing drones launched simultaneously from multiple vehicles. The test, conducted by the PLA-affiliated National University of Defence Technology (NUDT), aired on Chinese state television Tuesday and…