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Starlink Cuts Russia Off: How Musk’s Decision Flipped 300 Square Kilometers Back to Ukraine
I’ve been tracking the Starlink-drone connection since the first week of the 2022 invasion. But the full picture of what happened between a Russian BM-35 flying past a Kyiv government building and a complete collapse of Russian frontline communications in…
German Parts Inside Russian Geran Drones Expose a Sanctions Evasion Problem That Criminal Networks Are Exploiting
Every Geran drone that Russia fires at a Ukrainian city carries between eight and 12 transistors made in Germany. That detail, confirmed by Ukraine’s military intelligence service HUR to Deutsche Welle, is not a rounding error or a quirk of…
Iran’s Shahed drone hits RAF Akrotiri runway as UK Typhoon scores first Iranian drone kill over Qatar
An Iranian drone struck the runway at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus around midnight local time on Sunday, March 2, 2026. The strike caused limited damage and no casualties. Hours earlier, an RAF Typhoon operating out of Qatar had shot down…
Iran’s Shahed-136 Hits Bahrain, Kuwait, and Dubai in Broad Gulf Strike Wave
The buzzing sound is unmistakable. Anyone who has watched footage of a Shahed-136 inbound over a city knows it — that flat, nasal drone of a small piston engine, audible seconds before impact. That sound hit Manama, Kuwait City, and…
US Commerce Department Streamlines Drone Export Controls: A Strategic Push Toward Allied Supply Chains
The policy change is narrow on paper. The implications are not. On January 21, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule that removes licensing requirements for certain commercial UAVs exported to most…
Ukraine and Netherlands Scale Drone Line to Target 50,000 Russian Losses Per Month
The numbers coming out of Ukraine’s Drone Line program in early 2026 are striking. In January and February, more than 1,000 specialized drone crews accounted for one in every three Russian soldiers killed on the front. Now Ukraine wants to…
Zelensky Says Ukraine’s Drone Interception Know-How Is ‘Irreplaceable’ as Middle East War Pulls in European Allies
Three years of absorbing more than 57,000 Shahed-type drone strikes has turned Ukraine into the world’s most battle-tested authority on shooting Iranian-designed weapons out of the sky. Now, as Iran’s drone and missile salvos spread across the Gulf and into…
Ukraine Is Scaling Up Interceptor Drones as Russia’s Shahed Threat Outpaces Every Defense
At a secret training range north of Kyiv, a neurologist and a graphic designer are learning to shoot down drones. That’s not a quirky detail. It’s the clearest signal yet of how seriously Ukraine is taking the interceptor drone mission,…
Germany Gives Bundeswehr Shoot-Down Powers as Russian Drone Threat Forces Bundestag’s Hand
Germany’s parliament voted Thursday, February 27, 2026, to give the Bundeswehr authority to intercept, jam, and shoot down drones over German territory — a shift that would have been politically unthinkable just a few years ago. The Bundestag approved amendments…
Ukrspecsystems Opens UK Drone Factory in Suffolk, Targeting 1,000 Units a Month for Ukrainian Forces
Ukraine’s biggest drone manufacturer just opened a production facility on British soil. Ukrspecsystems, described as Ukraine’s largest drone manufacturer, has converted a building in Mildenhall, Suffolk into an operational drone factory, backed by a £200 million investment. When running at…
China Sends Drones to Iran, But Have They Already Been Used?
A report from Middle East Eye says China has sent “attack drones” to Iran, including small offensive systems like loitering munitions. At the same time, a separate report says Iran is nearing a deal to buy Chinese CM-302 supersonic anti-ship…
LUCAS Attack Drone Sees First Combat in Operation Epic Fury, Turning Iran’s Own Shahed Design Against Tehran
Seven months after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held up a reverse-engineered Iranian drone at a Pentagon event and called it America’s answer to the Shahed-136, that drone flew in combat. In the early hours of February 28, 2026, the…