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U.S. MQ-4C Triton Disappears Near Iran
An American Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton reconnaissance drone vanished from radar on February 22 while flying near Iran, adding a new layer of tension to an already volatile region. The aircraft, registration 169660 and call sign OVRLD1, had taken off…
Ukraine Destroys Shahed Drone Relay Stations in Belarus, Cutting Moscow’s Eyes Over Kyiv
The Shahed-136’s most dangerous feature was never its warhead. It was the mesh network quietly stitching dozens of drones together mid-flight, turning each surviving drone into a signal repeater for every other. Ukrainian signals intelligence just severed that network at…
Oppenheimer’s $400 Billion Drone Market Forecast Bets Big on Defense, Names Ondas as Top Pick
I’ve been covering drone industry investment cycles for years, and every few months a new Wall Street note lands with a number big enough to make you do a double take. This one cleared that bar. Oppenheimer just put a…
Shield AI’s V-BAT Already Has a Weapons Deal — So Why Is Co-Founder Brandon Tseng Still Arguing Against Armed Drones?
The V-BAT has flown more than 60 miles into Russian-controlled airspace through layered GPS jamming, spotted a Buk-M1 surface-to-air missile system, and handed targeting data to HIMARS crews who destroyed it. That mission — pure intelligence, zero ordnance on the…
Algorithm Warfare Is Here: How $500 Commercial Drones Are Beating $5 Million Tanks and What the Pentagon Must Do Next
A soldier in a trench, wearing a $300 pair of FPV goggles and holding a hobbyist controller, can guide a commercial drone carrying a $500 payload into a $5 million tank. The math is brutal and it only moves in…
Russian Drone Approaches French Carrier in Sweden
A Russian drone approached the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle while the warship was docked in Malmö, Sweden, during a strategic visit, according to United24 Media. The Swedish Armed Forces detected the unmanned aircraft and immediately deployed electronic warfare…
Germany approves 536 million euro Helsing and Stark drone deal, but cuts long-term framework from 4.3 billion to 2 billion
We have been tracking Germany’s kamikaze drone procurement saga since the Bundeswehr first tested loitering munitions from Helsing and Stark Defence late last year. Today, the story hit a turning point that nobody in Berlin’s defense circles predicted: the Bundestag’s…
Ukraine’s Alpha Gets 25,000 Strike Drones
A tidal wave of drones has just landed in the hands of one of Ukraine’s most capable special units. Soldiers from the Special Operations Center “A” of the Security Service of Ukraine, better known as Alpha, have received more than…
West Point’s former Army vice chief: Russian troops surrendered to machines, not humans
The timing of this essay says as much as the content. Published today by West Point’s Modern War Institute, retired General James Mingus and Lieutenant Colonel Maggie Harris lay out what readers of this site have watched unfold in real…
NATO’s Arctic drone gap is widening
The Arctic is not just ice, polar bears, and dramatic submarine photos anymore. It is becoming a laboratory for drone warfare. Since Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, the High North has shifted from geopolitical afterthought to frontline chessboard. As…
1,000 Drone Show Comes to Jacksonville
A 1,000 drone light show is set to illuminate downtown Jacksonville on Feb. 27 and 28, bringing a large scale DroneArt performance to the skies near EverBank Stadium, as reported by Jacksonville.com If you see a giant ballerina suspended above…
FT’s ‘kill zone’ report confirms what Ukraine’s frontline has become: a drone-dominated no-man’s-land
The Financial Times sent reporters into eastern Ukraine and came back with a term that every military planner should memorize: the “kill zone.” It is the strip of land closest to the front lines where anything that moves, on wheels,…