Ukraine
Taiwan Civilians Learn Drones to Counter China
Kuma Academy launched Taiwan's first civil defense drone training program in May 2026, filling sessions that now sell out two months in advance.
Russia
Shaheds, Lancets, fiber-optic FPVs and the counter-drone scramble — Russia’s drone war, tracked.
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Ukraine
China Unveils 55-Pound Laser That Burns Drones in 4 Seconds
China just put a counter-drone laser on a soldier’s back. At the Defence Information Equipment & Technology Exhibition that opened June 16 in Beijing, the state-linked contractor Harbin Xinguang Optic-Electronics Technology rolled out two man-portable laser weapons, the Lijian II and Lijian III. They were designed to let a single soldier shoot down drones at…
Ukraine
Fire Point Turns a Moscow Strike Into a Trade Show Ad
Fire Point ran Thursday’s combat footage from a Moscow oil refinery strike as floor entertainment at its own booth in Paris. The Ukrainian drone and missile maker ran the raw video on a screen at Eurosatory 2026 hours after its FP-1 and FP-2 strike drones hit the Kapotnya refinery, turning a live war into the…
Ukraine
SkyFall’s AI Interceptors Hunt Shaheds Without a Pilot’s Eyes, and Ukraine Knows the Risk It Is Taking
A Ukrainian drone manufacturer called SkyFall has flown artificial intelligence into the one job interceptor pilots could never do fast enough: spotting an incoming Shahed before the human eye registers it. At a launch site in a central Ukrainian pine forest, the company demonstrated its P1-SUN interceptor against a lightweight replica of the Iranian-designed attack…
Germany
In Berlin Four CCAs Face Off for Germany
Berlin Air Show this week, each chasing the same prize: the contract to fly as Germany's robotic wingman by 2029.
Ukraine
NATO Allies Move To Loosen The Trigger On Drones, Handing Its Top Commander New Powers Before The Ankara Summit
NATO countries want to give the alliance’s top military commander more freedom to shoot down drones by the time leaders meet in Ankara next month, after nine months of incursions that have caused damage and injuries while rattling politics across the Eastern Flank. Two NATO diplomats and one alliance official described the proposal to Politico,…
Ukraine
Wild Drones Race In Truskavets Rewards Ukraine’s Slowest Pilot
A Ukrainian sergeant won his country’s “Wild Drones” military flying competition by piloting as slowly and carefully as possible, taking 11 minutes to finish a course built for a five-minute sprint while faster rivals collided and crashed around him. Sgt. Zakhar Korol, 37, of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade “Magura,” outlasted the field at a…
Technology
Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained the Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones
Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.
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