The war that rewrote drone doctrine. FPV strikes, interceptors, jamming, and the industrial race behind them — reported from the open record.
The UK Ministry of Defense announced on May 15 that BAE Systems, Anduril Industries, Tekever, and Thales UK have been shortlisted to develop autonomous drones that will fly alongside the British Army’s AH-64E Apache attack helicopters. The four firms will share $13 million (£10 million) in investment as the program enters its next assessment phase,…
A 12-year-old Ukrainian boy snapped a Russian fiber-optic FPV drone's control cable, saving his siblings. The unjammable drone had one physical weakness.
Russia's Monocrystal, a top sapphire supplier for missile and drone optics, files for bankruptcy after Ukrainian drone strikes, sanctions, and lost markets.
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, according to classified U.S. intelligence shared with Axios by a senior Trump administration official Sunday…
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 York, in a session organized by Joint Interagency Task Force 401, the Department of War’s…
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 demonstration or a PowerPoint briefing. It was a working kill chain with real hardware, real…
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 serving with Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, said in a May 10 post on X that…
A leaked GRU document obtained by The Economist proposes supplying Iran with 5,000 fiber-optic drones for use against U.S. forces in the Gulf.
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