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Ukraine Drones: Stay updated on the role of drones in Ukraine. Discover how drone technology is influencing defense, surveillance, and humanitarian efforts in the region.
Sentrycs Scout: Man-Portable Cyber-Over-RF Counter-Drone Kit
Sentrycs, the Israeli counter-UAS company acquired by ONDAS last year, debuted a new man-portable cyber-over-RF detector called Scout at SOF Week in Tampa earlier this month. The product compresses the company’s fixed-site detection and mitigation stack into a battery-powered handheld…
Russian Fiber-Optic Drone Headed For Children Was Stopped By A 12-Year-Old Boy In A Pear Tree
A 12-year-old Ukrainian boy named Anatolii Prokhorenko disabled a Russian fiber-optic FPV drone last month by snapping its hair-thin control cable with his bare hands, redirecting the drone away from his three younger siblings playing in the yard of his…
Monocrystal Files For Bankruptcy After Ukrainian Drone Strike And Sanctions Strip Its Markets
Russia’s Monocrystal, one of the world’s largest producers of synthetic sapphire used in missile guidance optics and drone sensors, has informed creditors it will file for bankruptcy with the Stavropol Krai Arbitration Court. The plant is part of Russia’s Energomera…
Cuba Now Holds 300 Russian And Iranian Military Drones Within 90 Miles Of Key West, U.S. Intelligence Tells Axios
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,…
FBI Counter-Drone Force For World Cup 2026 Will Run Just 60 Officers Across 11 Host Cities
The FBI will field roughly 60 specially trained state and local police officers across FIFA World Cup 2026 venues to detect and electronically disable hostile drones, according to a Bloomberg report published May 15. The bureau takes direct command of…
Army’s Bumblebee V1 Turns a Drone Into a Drone Killer
The U.S. Army has a new answer to the drone threat, and it involves sending a drone to take care of it. Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division recently trained with the Bumblebee V1 counter-drone system at Fort Drum, New…
NATO Tests Flowcopter MEDEVAC Drone in Poland Exercise
American and Polish forces tested a gas-powered heavy-lift drone for battlefield casualty evacuation during Sabre Strike 2026 in Poland earlier this month, as METRO reported. The exercise marks one of the most visible NATO evaluations yet of autonomous unmanned systems…
Navy Tests Drone Kill Chain Against Caribbean Narco Boats
The U.S. Navy just ran a live exercise off Key West testing whether drones and AI can find, track, and engage suspected drug trafficking vessels in real time, as reported by the US Naval Institute. The exercise wasn’t a concept…
Ukraine Fiber Optic Spool Prices Jump More Than Eightfold As AI Data Center Demand Squeezes Drone Supply
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…
U.S. Marines Get Three Weeks On FPV Drones As Pentagon Volume Gap With China And Russia Widens
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…
Helsing Aims for $18 Billion Valuation in $1.2 Billion Dragoneer-Led Round
Helsing is in advanced talks to raise $1.2 billion at a valuation of about $18 billion, according to the Financial Times. The round would push the Munich-based defense AI company past most of Europe’s other private tech firms and cement…
Russia’s GRU Drafted a Plan to Give Iran 5,000 Unjammable Fiber-Optic Drones for Use Against U.S. Forces, The Economist Reports
A confidential ten-page document prepared by the GRU, the intelligence directorate of Russia’s armed forces, proposed supplying Iran with 5,000 short-range fiber-optic drones of the type used in Ukraine, an unspecified number of satellite-guided drones equipped with Starlink terminals, and…