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The U.S. Army Wants 340,000 Drones. Fort Irwin Got Four.
Phase I kicked off in February at Fort Benning. Twelve vendors competing to collectively deliver 30,000 drones at $5,000 a unit.
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Iran’s Shahed-136 Hits Bahrain, Kuwait, and Dubai in Broad Gulf Strike Wave
The buzzing sound is unmistakable. Anyone who has watched footage of a Shahed-136 inbound over a city knows it — that flat, nasal drone of a small piston engine, audible seconds before impact. That sound hit Manama, Kuwait City, and Dubai this weekend. If you’ve been following the Shahed’s trajectory from Ukrainian skies to the…
Department of Commerce
US Commerce Department Streamlines Drone Export Controls: A Strategic Push Toward Allied Supply Chains
The policy change is narrow on paper. The implications are not. On January 21, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule that removes licensing requirements for certain commercial UAVs exported to most Wassenaar Arrangement member states and expands the License Exception STA pathway for select MT-controlled drone…
Ukraine
Ukraine and Netherlands Scale Drone Line to Target 50,000 Russian Losses Per Month
The numbers coming out of Ukraine’s Drone Line program in early 2026 are striking. In January and February, more than 1,000 specialized drone crews accounted for one in every three Russian soldiers killed on the front. Now Ukraine wants to make that ratio permanent, and the Netherlands is helping fund it. Here’s what you need…
Ukraine
Zelensky Says Ukraine’s Drone Interception Know-How Is ‘Irreplaceable’ as Middle East War Pulls in European Allies
Three years of absorbing more than 57,000 Shahed-type drone strikes has turned Ukraine into the world’s most battle-tested authority on shooting Iranian-designed weapons out of the sky. Now, as Iran’s drone and missile salvos spread across the Gulf and into Europe’s military footprint, that expertise has a new market. Here’s what’s happening: 57,000 Shaheds: Ukraine’s…
Ukraine
Ukraine Is Scaling Up Interceptor Drones as Russia’s Shahed Threat Outpaces Every Defense
At a secret training range north of Kyiv, a neurologist and a graphic designer are learning to shoot down drones. That’s not a quirky detail. It’s the clearest signal yet of how seriously Ukraine is taking the interceptor drone mission, and how fast the battlefield logic has shifted from expensive air defense systems to cheap,…
Auterion
Ukrspecsystems Opens UK Drone Factory in Suffolk, Targeting 1,000 Units a Month for Ukrainian Forces
Ukraine’s biggest drone manufacturer just opened a production facility on British soil. Ukrspecsystems, described as Ukraine’s largest drone manufacturer, has converted a building in Mildenhall, Suffolk into an operational drone factory, backed by a £200 million investment. When running at full capacity, it will produce up to 1,000 drones per month for Ukrainian soldiers fighting…
Oklahoma
MyDefence Opens Counter-Drone Factory in Oklahoma City
A Danish counter-drone company just planted its flag on American soil. MyDefence opened its U.S. manufacturing and innovation facility in Oklahoma City on February 26 — and the timing couldn’t be more deliberate, as Oklahoma Commerce reports. From Copenhagen to Oklahoma: Why This Move Matters Now The drone threat isn’t waiting for anyone’s supply chain…
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