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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.
Stark Unveils Cascade and Gambit Drones Eight Months After Flunking Every Strike in Military Trials
Stark unveils Cascade and Gambit loitering munitions with fiber-optic guidance and a UK launcher deal, eight months after its Virtus failed every strike.
Ukraine’s Adis Bomber Drone Flies on Satellite Link
Ukrainian company Martyn Tech just unveiled a heavy bomber quadcopter called Adis, and its headline feature isn’t the payload. It’s the satellite link. By controlling the drone through a satellite rather than a direct radio signal, the operator no longer…
Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained the Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones
Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation…
MaXon Systems Built the $3,500 Autonomous Drone That Kills Shaheds Without a Pilot
The Ukrainian interceptor drone that Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said automates 95 percent of the Shahed kill cycle now has a builder, a price, and a combat record. MaXon Systems, a Kyiv defense technology startup, made a fixed-wing interceptor that…
Anduril’s Brian Schimpf Spent Nine Years Warning of a Munitions Crisis. The Iran War Proved Him Right.
Brian Schimpf handed a reporter a three-pound tungsten warhead at a secretive West Texas test site, then watched an Anduril Bolt drone dive at 85 degrees toward hills the company would not let a photographer shoot. That scene opens a…
Shield AI V-BAT Severs Romanian Officer’s Fingers as Reuters Documents 50-Plus Crashes
A Romanian Navy official lost two fingers and fractured a third on May 12 when her hand was caught in the propeller of a Shield AI V-BAT drone during a training exercise on a boat off the Texas coast. Romania’s…
AFRICOM’s CURTAIN CALL Swarm Cleared a Harder Test. Confirmed Kills Weren’t the Point.
U.S. Africa Command ran its CURTAIN CALL drone-swarm defense through a second field test at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California from April 27 to May 1, 2026, and this round added the threat the program was built to stop:…
CENTCOM Downs Four Iranian Attack Drones Over Strait of Hormuz as Ceasefire Frays
U.S. Central Command shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones launched toward the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, then struck Iranian coastal radar sites in response, the latest kinetic exchange to test a ceasefire that has held in name only…
Echodyne Lands $490M Air Force Counter-Drone Deal as Ukraine’s Cheap Acoustics Spawn North American Rivals
The radar that can spot a quadcopter the size of a dinner plate at five kilometers is now wired into a $490 million U.S. Air Force counter-drone program. Echodyne, the Kirkland, Washington company behind the laptop-sized EchoShield radar, confirmed in…
The R7 Is A Chinese AI Drone-Killer You Can Buy In America. The FCC Says Hardware Like It Is Banned.
A Hong Kong seller is listing a Chinese-built autonomous interceptor drone on eBay for $6,999, shipping to U.S. addresses by UPS Ground, with payment plans starting around $336 a month. The listing, for a system called the R7 Portable AI…
Russia’s Yolka And A $6,999 eBay Drone-Killer: What The New York Post Got Right About The Threat, And Wrong
A New York Post opinion piece published June 4 argues that the cheap interceptor drones now shooting down attack drones over Ukraine and Russia represent an emerging threat to civilian aviation, and that copycat versions are already turning up on…
Hezbollah Imports Ukraine’s Fiber-Optic Drone Playbook, and Israel Has No Jammer for It
Hezbollah is now killing Israeli soldiers with the same fiber-optic FPV drones that reshaped the battlefield in Ukraine, and Israel’s main counter-drone tool, electronic jamming, does nothing to stop them. Since April 2026, drones guided by thin optical cables have…