The war that rewrote drone doctrine. FPV strikes, interceptors, jamming, and the industrial race behind them — reported from the open record.
There are drone racing tournaments, and then there is this one. The final of Kyiv Drone Racing took place in a hangar at the National Aviation University Kyiv Aviation Institute, with more than 30 teams and roughly 100 participants competing on drones built by one of Ukraine’s most consequential defense technology companies, as The Defender…
A Ukrainian long-range attack drone landed in Finnish territory on Sunday morning with its warhead still intact. Finnish police found it, cordoned off the area, and detonated it in a controlled explosion. No one was hurt. But the incident is not routine, and the region is paying close attention. Two drones came down in southeastern…
Armin Papperger, Chairman and CEO of Rheinmetall AG, dismissed Ukraine’s drone program as kitchen-table hobbyism in an interview with The Atlantic published Friday, March 28. “They have 3D printers in the kitchen, and they produce parts for drones,” Papperger told the magazine. “This is not innovation.” He compared Ukraine’s drone development to playing “with Lego”…
You’ve felt it before. You’re flying your Mavic or your Mini over a trail, everything looks great, and then the signal drops. Your drone hovers in place, looking confused, waiting for satellites to tell it where it is. Now imagine that problem on a military drone in Ukraine, where the other side is actively trying…
Russia is scaling its drone warfare program at a pace that should get the attention of anyone watching the Ukraine conflict. Deputy Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Anatoly Kontsevoy announced at a Federation Council meeting that the Russian Armed Forces plan to train more than 70,000 drone specialists this year, according to Voennoedelo.…
Zelenskyy told Reuters Ukraine can produce 2,000 interceptor drones per day if it has the budget. Here is what that figure actually means and why the math matters.
NATO and Ukraine opened the UNITE-Brave NATO web portal on March 25, 2026, giving Allied and Ukrainian companies their first direct access to a matchmaking system tied to a €10 million joint innovation competition. The portal, hosted on Brave1’s website, lists open challenges in Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) and air defense — the two…
German drone manufacturer Quantum Systems unveiled a jet-powered target drone called the RAT (Red Air Target) at the 62nd Munich Security Conference, held February 13–15, 2026 — and the problem it solves is blunter than the name suggests. European air-defense units cannot effectively train against Shahed-style mass drone attacks because they have no realistic targets…
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