Ukraine
MaXon Systems Built the $3,500 Autonomous Drone That Kills Shaheds Without a Pilot
MaXon Systems built a $3,500 fixed-wing drone that launches, flies, and kills Shaheds autonomously. First combat use confirmed in Kharkiv on June 8.
Russia
Shaheds, Lancets, fiber-optic FPVs and the counter-drone scramble — Russia’s drone war, tracked.
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Ukraine
Russia’s Yolka And A $6,999 eBay Drone-Killer: What The New York Post Got Right About The Threat, And Wrong
A New York Post op-ed calls cheap interceptor drones like Russia's $500 Yolka drone a terror risk. Here's what checks out, what doesn't, and the regulatory gap.
Counter-Drone
Heligan Report Warns Counter-Drone Defenses Are Starved, But the Government Spending Numbers Tell a More Complicated Story
A consultancy report distributed this week puts a hard number on something drone operators have watched develop for two years: the money flowing into building drones dwarfs the money flowing into stopping them. The report’s author argues that imbalance has left soldiers nearly defenseless against machines that now inflict the majority of battlefield casualties in…
Ukraine
Ukraine’s Winged FPV Drones Just Hit a Russian Van 102 Kilometers Behind the Line
A Ukrainian quadcopter-type FPV drone struck a Russian UAZ “Bukhanka” van at a distance of 102 kilometers (63 miles) from the front, with no carrier aircraft launching it closer to the target. The strike was disclosed on May 26 by Serhii Sternenko, the Ukrainian fundraiser and adviser to Ukraine’s Defense Minister, who has spent the…
China
China Claims a Drone Swarm That Hunts Through Jamming
A Chinese research team of the Northwestern Polytechnical University says it has built a drone swarm that keeps hunting even after you jam its radios and blind its cameras. Their paper, published in China’s top aeronautics journal, claims a 100% kill rate in simulation. That number deserves heavy skepticism. But the method behind it, an…
Department of Defense
Zelenskyy Tells Face the Nation the U.S. Drone Deal Still Needs One Thing: Trump to Say Yes
The framework drone agreement that Ukraine has been pushing Washington to sign for nearly a year is still unsigned, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy used a national U.S. broadcast to say exactly what is holding it up. In an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation that aired Sunday, the Ukrainian president said his country and the United…
Technology
Vermeer Bets American Strike Drones Are Useless Without a GPS Replacement
New York startup Vermeer sells a $20,000 camera-and-AI kit that lets strike drones navigate without GPS, combat-tested in Ukraine against Russian jamming.
Russia
Russian Drone Hits Romanian Apartment Block in Galați, First Injuries on NATO Soil as Bucharest Weighs Article 4
A Russian Geran-2 attack drone crashed into the roof of a 10-storey apartment block in Galați, Romania, overnight on 28-29 May, detonating its full warhead on impact and starting a fire that injured two residents. It is the first time in nearly four years of repeated airspace breaches that a Russian drone has hurt anyone…
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