The war that rewrote drone doctrine. FPV strikes, interceptors, jamming, and the industrial race behind them — reported from the open record.
The debris from the Iranian drone that struck RAF Akrotiri on March 2, 2026, is doing more than revealing a gap in Britain’s air defenses. A specific component recovered from the wreckage — a Russian-made Kometa satellite navigation system — confirms what intelligence analysts and Ukrainian forensic teams have been building a case for since…
The UK dispatches the 12th Regiment Royal Artillery to the Middle East, leveraging battlefield experience from Ukraine to defend against Iranian Shahed drone threats.
The US military has deployed LUCAS (Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System) in active Gulf operations, a drone reverse-engineered from Iran's Shahed-136 and priced at approximately $35,000 per unit.
Neros Technologies is planting a serious flag on British soil. The Los Angeles-based FPV drone manufacturer — best known for its NDAA-compliant platforms including the Archer Fiber, the first NDAA-compliant fiber-optic FPV drone — has announced the formation of Neros Technologies UK Ltd, a new subsidiary headquartered in the Swindon area of southwest England. The…
In 2024, land mines and unexploded ordnance killed 1,945 people and injured 4,325 more. Ninety percent were civilians. Nearly half were children. Demining crews removed 105,640 mines that same year. The math is brutal, and it isn’t close. The Oldest Problem in Modern Warfare At least 57 countries still have live antipersonnel mines buried in…
The economics finally broke. Gulf states spent the last week firing Patriot interceptors worth over $13.5 million each at Iranian Shaheds that cost $30,000 to build. Now, according to reporting by the Financial Times, the Pentagon and at least one Gulf government are in active talks to buy Ukrainian drone interceptors that do the same…
Two days ago, The National published a detailed breakdown of how to counter Iran’s Shahed-136 drone threat now hitting Gulf states. Fighters, heavy machine guns, Skyranger 35 systems, Gepard tanks, jamming guns — the full conventional toolkit. It’s a solid piece. But it has a notable gap. The word “interceptor” does not appear once. That’s…
On March 2, 2026, Teledyne FLIR Defense and Norway's STORM Adapt Group signed a memorandum of understanding at EnforceTac 2026 in Oslo
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