The war that rewrote drone doctrine. FPV strikes, interceptors, jamming, and the industrial race behind them — reported from the open record.
On the table at the Brave1 pavilion at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 in Düsseldorf sat a drone unlike anything else on the floor. The frame was large — arms stretched wide, propellers big enough to move serious air. Strapped to the body was a black housing with the VARTA logo and a prominent blue battery pack.…
Germany is funding the production of 15,000 Ukrainian-made STRILA interceptor drones for the National Guard of Ukraine, according to an announcement from the German Embassy in Ukraine on March 23. The multimillion-euro agreement — signed in Kyiv in the presence of German Chargé d’Affaires Maximilian Rasch, alongside representatives of the National Guard and Quantum Systems…
On the day TechEx showed its unjammable fiber-optic FPV drones in Düsseldorf, Russia’s intelligence was bugging their chief engineer’s office back in Ukraine.
The business card on the table at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 in Düsseldorf read “General Cherry / Vlad Polikashkin / Marketing Director.” The booth behind it was the largest standalone Ukrainian stand on the floor — backlit walls, Ukrainian military unit insignia, a Ukrainian flag in the corner, and a steady line of visitors that did…
Three years ago, Ukraine had almost no commercial drone manufacturing industry at scale. Today, I was walking the floor at XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 in Düsseldorf — the leading European trade fair for autonomous technologies and robotics, running March 24–26 at Messe Düsseldorf — and Ukrainian companies occupied some of the busiest floor space in the…
For the first time on public record, American forces have disclosed live-fire drone interception training during a combined exercise with South Korea. U.S. Marine Corps forces deployed from Okinawa, Japan, conducted the training on March 18 at the Daecheon Shooting Range using Stinger portable surface-to-air missiles to shoot down MQM-171A BroadSword target drones configured to…
The Pardubice facility produces the AT-300 thermal imaging sight, the primary thermal optic for the Stugna-P anti-tank guided missile system
The Air Force has had enough of watching small drones poke around its installations without a reliable way to stop them. This week, the service’s Point Defense Battle Lab put out two Requests for Information asking industry for exactly what’s been missing: systems that can spot the threat and systems that can kill it, as…
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