Shaheds, Lancets, fiber-optic FPVs and the counter-drone scramble — Russia’s drone war, tracked.
Oleksiy Klochkovsky drives a white Mercedes truck through the villages outside Kharkiv with his left ear deliberately uncovered. He doesn’t play music. He keeps an AirPod in his right ear for phone calls only. The left side stays open so he can hear what’s coming from the sky. For four years, the 37-year-old has delivered…
European Commission opens consultation on new EU Aviation and Aeronautics Strategy through May 21, 2026. Drones, counter-UAS, anti-jamming all in scope.
On April 23, footage from Ukrainian pilot Tymur Fatkullin showed an Antonov An-28 turboprop firing P1-SUN interceptor drone from underwing
A 16-year-old named Darina stares into a YouTube camera and announces she’ll soon earn 150,000 rubles a month, roughly $2,000, assembling drones at what her recruiters call the world’s largest drone factory. Her parents are proud. She wants other teenagers to follow her in, as Coda Story reports. The factory is the Alabuga complex in…
IARPA’s RFI-26-01 seeks bio-derived materials for drone turbines and motors that degrade after missions. Responses due May 15. Analysis and what it means.
France’s 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade is using the ORION 26 exercise to break its platoons into small drone-armed combat cells, a doctrinal shift pulled directly from the lessons of the war in Ukraine, as Defence Blog reported. The brigade announced the experiment on April 18, 2026. The goal is blunt. Make infantry harder to find,…
Ukraine carried out more than 9,000 frontline missions with armed unmanned ground vehicles last month, up from 2,900 in November 2025, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense. The figures, reported by The New York Times on April 20, show ground robots moving from experimental curiosity to standard tactical asset in roughly twelve months. A year…
The UK Ministry of Defence announced on April 15 that Britain will deliver at least 120,000 drones to Ukraine by the end of 2026. Defence Secretary John Healey made the announcement ahead of the 34th Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting in Berlin. Deliveries of the new package began this month, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda.…
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