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House Homeland Security Chair Calls Drones a “New, Growing Frontier” of Threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure
The same week DHS announced its permanent counter-drone office and FEMA began distributing $500 million in C-UAS grants, the House Homeland Security Committee held an oversight hearing that spelled out exactly why the federal government is treating drones as a…
Anduril’s $1 Billion Long Beach Gamble: Why Palmer Luckey’s Drone Empire Is Doubling Down on Southern California
When Anduril Industries announced its $900 million Arsenal-1 factory in Ohio last January, the message was clear: the company was moving production to the heartland. So why is it now committing another billion dollars to a 1.1 million-square-foot campus in…
China vs. Ukraine: FT Investigation Exposes Beijing’s Dual-Track Drone Strategy That Leaves Kyiv Behind
Chinese component suppliers are scheduling factory visits to ensure Ukrainian and Russian drone buyers never meet in the same building. That detail alone tells you everything about Beijing’s actual position in this war. A major Financial Times investigation published January…
Russia’s Geran-5 Jet Drone Uses Western Electronics
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…
Marine Corps Drone Training Finally Unveiled!
The U.S. Marine Corps’ drone training program has finally been announced, and it’s far more impressive than I had anticipated. They are rolling out a service-wide training framework aimed at rapidly expanding the number of small unmanned aircraft system operators…
UK Ministry of Defence invests £240,000 in drone degree as Army confronts artillery’s decline
When I first covered the NMITE drone degree announcement last month, the funding details were conspicuously absent. Now we have numbers. The Ministry of Defence has committed £240,000 to what officials are calling the UK’s first “drone degree,” with enrollment…
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry announces homegrown DJI Mavic replacement with longer range
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…
Renault and Turgis Gaillard Confirm Drone Deal: Europe’s Struggling Automakers Found Their Exit Strategy
Seven months ago, we reported that France’s defense ministry had approached Renault about drone production. At the time, Renault told Reuters that discussions had taken place but no decision had been made. Today, that deal is official, and the partnership…
Russia’s Shahed Production Surge: Ukraine’s Top Commander Warns of 1,000 Drones Per Day by 2026
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…
Opinion: DJI and The American Drone Delusion: We’re Not Catching Up, We’re Falling Behind
On December 23, 2025, the FCC added DJI to its Covered List, effectively banning the import and sale of any new DJI drones in the United States. Future DJI products will never legally reach American consumers. The ban, justified by…
Lasar’s Group vs. NATO’s Drone Crisis: Inside Ukraine’s ‘McDonald’s’ Model That Europe Is Desperate To Copy
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…
Germany Buys American Drones for Submarine Hunting While Brussels Debates European Alternatives
When the German Armed Forces announced yesterday that they ordered eight MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones from General Atomics, the headlines focused on the hardware. But the real story is what this $1.78 billion procurement reveals about how Berlin has finally accepted…