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The war that rewrote drone doctrine. FPV strikes, interceptors, jamming, and the industrial race behind them — reported from the open record.

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A US Army soldier lying prone in tall grass hand-launches a small reconnaissance drone at Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany

Ukraine · US Army

US Army Kills the Drone Battalion It Created Just Seven Months Ago

The US Army is phasing out the 3rd Battalion, 504th PIR, its only drone assault unit, seven months after creating it to absorb Ukraine's drone war lessons.

Haye KestelooAug 205 min read

Helsing HX-2 strike drone with X-shaped wings backlit by white studio light bars in a dark hangar

Japan

Helsing Pitches Japan A Strike Drone With A Contested Combat Record

Rakuten is brokering Helsing's sale of HX-2 strike drones to Japan's army, and the aircraft under test is the same one a German defense ministry document said struggled to launch in Ukraine.

Haye KestelooAug 18

Iryna Terekh smiling in a tan cap and T-shirt on an industrial production floor

Deep Strike

Fire Point CEO Iryna Terekh Cut Drone Wing Build Time From Six Days To 2.5 Hours

Fire Point CEO Iryna Terekh went from making flower pots to running Ukraine's largest arms maker. The production fix behind the FP-1 strike drone.

Haye KestelooAug 16

A small quadcopter drone hovering just above the wing of a parked commercial airliner behind an airport perimeter fence

Leipzig Drone Bomb

Leipzig Drone Bomb Hit The Antonov's Wing, And The Bus Driver Never Kicked It Out Of The Air

Camera footage shows the Leipzig drone flew straight into the wing of a Ukrainian An-124, and the bus driver never kicked it out of the air. DroneXL corrects Sunday's report as DNA on the drone matches the 2024 DHL parcel attack and a record in Lithuania, and an American EchoShield radar goes up at the airport.

Haye KestelooAug 10

Bundeswehr Patriot missile launcher with elevated canisters mounted on a camouflaged eight-wheeled MAN truck, parked on an airfield apron under a clear blue sky

Hybrid Warfare

Drones Circled Europe's Only Patriot Repair Base Days After The Leipzig Bomb

Six drone overflights hit the Bundeswehr base at Mechernich, believed to be the only Patriot repair facility in Europe, two nights after the Leipzig drone bomb. One drone circled above the police officers sent to investigate, and none of the aircraft was stopped.

Haye KestelooAug 9

The nose of an Antonov An-124 cargo plane in yellow and blue Ukrainian colors, lettered Be Brave Like Kharkiv, parked on an airport apron

Leipzig Drone Bomb

Bus Driver Kicked The Leipzig Drone Bomb Out Of The Air [Corrected]

Correction: Camera footage shows the Leipzig drone struck the wing of a parked Antonov An-124 and fell to the ground without detonating. The bus driver found it and pinned it under his foot. He never kicked it out of the air, contrary to the lawmaker account this article reported.

Haye KestelooAug 9

Leipzig Drone Bomb

Leipzig Drone Bomb Was Semtex And PETN, Built To Slip Past The Airport's New Drone Defenses

Investigators confirm Semtex and PETN in the Leipzig drone bomb, which slipped past airport defenses and sat unseen beside a Ukrainian An-124 for four hours.

Haye KestelooAug 7

Still from Ukrainian police video showing a Russian FPV drone circling vegetable seller Yurii at a Kherson street market on August 4, 2026

Human Safari

Russian Drone Hunts Kherson Vegetable Seller In Video Zelensky Says The World Must See

A Russian FPV drone chased 52-year-old vegetable seller Yurii around his van in Kherson, then detonated. The UN called this campaign a crime against humanity in 2025.

Haye KestelooAug 6

Ukraine

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