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The war that rewrote drone doctrine. FPV strikes, interceptors, jamming, and the industrial race behind them — reported from the open record.

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Ukrainian FPV drone pilot in video goggles operating a controller while an FPV drone flies overhead against a blue sky

Ukraine

Ukraine Hands UK Its Drone War Data: 100,000 Combat Videos a Month

Ukraine will give Britain access to Avengers AI Labs and its 100,000 monthly drone video feeds, making the UK the first foreign partner in the platform.

Haye KestelooAug 27

A bomb disposal robot works under floodlights on an airport apron at night, with a traffic cone in the foreground.

Leipzig Drone Bomb

US Intel Ties Leipzig Drone Bomb To Russia's GRU

US intelligence ties the explosive drone found beside a Ukrainian An-124 at Leipzig to Russia's GRU, as more drones and explosives turn up nearby.

Haye KestelooAug 27

Three B-52H Stratofortress bombers parked in the open on the flight line at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana

Department of Defense

STRATCOM Calls Ukraine's Spiderweb Raid 'Utterly Eye-Opening' as Drones Circle US Nuclear Bases

A STRATCOM official calls Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb 'utterly eye-opening' as the command running America's nuclear triad studies counter-drone defense.

Haye KestelooAug 26

Ukrainian soldier raising a SHARK fixed-wing reconnaissance drone overhead before launch against a clear blue sky

Delta

US Army Can't Match Ukraine's Delta Drone Software, Secretary Says

Ukraine's Delta software cut its kill chain to minutes. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told the Senate the fault for falling behind was his own.

Haye KestelooAug 26

Close-up of a scorched Nvidia Jetson Orin computer module soldered to a debris-covered circuit board recovered from a downed drone

AI Warfare

Nvidia Chip Guided the Russian AI Drone That Killed Three Ukrainians

A Russian Molniya drone with an unencrypted Nvidia Jetson Orin chose its own target and killed three civilians at a Zaporizhzhia gas station on July 6.

Haye KestelooAug 24

US Army

US Army Kills the Drone Battalion It Created Just Seven Months Ago

The US Army is phasing out the 3rd Battalion, 504th PIR, its only drone assault unit, seven months after creating it to absorb Ukraine's drone war lessons.

Haye KestelooAug 20

Helsing HX-2 strike drone with X-shaped wings backlit by white studio light bars in a dark hangar

Japan

Helsing Pitches Japan A Strike Drone With A Contested Combat Record

Rakuten is brokering Helsing's sale of HX-2 strike drones to Japan's army, and the aircraft under test is the same one a German defense ministry document said struggled to launch in Ukraine.

Haye KestelooAug 18

Iryna Terekh smiling in a tan cap and T-shirt on an industrial production floor

Deep Strike

Fire Point CEO Iryna Terekh Cut Drone Wing Build Time From Six Days To 2.5 Hours

Fire Point CEO Iryna Terekh went from making flower pots to running Ukraine's largest arms maker. The production fix behind the FP-1 strike drone.

Haye KestelooAug 16

Ukraine

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