Shaheds, Lancets, fiber-optic FPVs and the counter-drone scramble — Russia’s drone war, tracked.
A 12-year-old Ukrainian boy snapped a Russian fiber-optic FPV drone's control cable, saving his siblings. The unjammable drone had one physical weakness.
Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones from Russia and Iran since 2023, and Cuban military officials have begun discussing plans to use them against the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. military vessels, and possibly Key West, according to classified U.S. intelligence shared with Axios by a senior Trump administration official Sunday…
A Ukrainian drone operator says his unit is now paying more than eight times what it used to for the fiber optic spools that feed their jam-proof FPV drones. Dimko Zhluktenko, co-founder of the Dzyga’s Paw charity fund and now serving with Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, said in a May 10 post on X that…
The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune has spent three weeks training pilots on first-person-view attack drones, with deployment imminent and adversaries already capable of producing millions of similar systems each year. The New York Times documented the training in a video published May 10, 2026, showing Marines with 3rd Battalion,…
Helsing is set to raise $1.2 billion at an $18 billion valuation in a Dragoneer-led round, cementing its lead among European defense AI firms.
A leaked GRU document obtained by The Economist proposes supplying Iran with 5,000 fiber-optic drones for use against U.S. forces in the Gulf.
Poland is building a national drone armada, and it’s asking Ukraine to design it. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the joint program on April 27 in Rzeszów, standing alongside Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko at a security conference held roughly 50 miles from the Ukrainian border, as Antikor.ua reported. The structure is straightforward: Poland…
U.S. Army soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment flew DJI Mavic 3 drones for reconnaissance during a live-fire exercise in Selija, Latvia on April 29, 2026 as reported by DVIDS Hub. The training integrated both offensive drone operations and counter-drone jamming in the same exercise, running the full offense-defense loop that defines modern…
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