The war that rewrote drone doctrine. FPV strikes, interceptors, jamming, and the industrial race behind them — reported from the open record.
Royal Navy warship HMS Duncan just survived a drone swarm attack off the Welsh coast. Controlled chaos, live firing, and a training exercise that felt anything but fake. One Ship. Multiple Threats. Zero Excuses. QinetiQ’s Sharpshooter exercise doesn’t mess around. For four days off the coast of Wales at MOD Aberporth, HMS Duncan faced simultaneous…
The Shahed-136’s most dangerous feature was never its warhead. It was the mesh network quietly stitching dozens of drones together mid-flight, turning each surviving drone into a signal repeater for every other. Ukrainian signals intelligence just severed that network at its root — by destroying the relay stations Russia had been running off Belarusian soil.…
I’ve been covering drone industry investment cycles for years, and every few months a new Wall Street note lands with a number big enough to make you do a double take. This one cleared that bar. Oppenheimer just put a $400 billion price tag on the global drone market within a decade, and the thesis…
The V-BAT has flown more than 60 miles into Russian-controlled airspace through layered GPS jamming, spotted a Buk-M1 surface-to-air missile system, and handed targeting data to HIMARS crews who destroyed it. That mission — pure intelligence, zero ordnance on the drone itself — is exactly the point Shield AI co-founder Brandon Tseng wants people to understand. The…
Germany's Bundestag budget committee approved €536M in kamikaze drone contracts for Helsing and Stark Defence but slashed the long-term framework from €4.3B to €2B.
A tidal wave of drones has just landed in the hands of one of Ukraine’s most capable special units. Soldiers from the Special Operations Center “A” of the Security Service of Ukraine, better known as Alpha, have received more than 25,000 drones from the Come Back Alive Foundation. According to the foundation, this marks the…
The timing of this essay says as much as the content. Published today by West Point’s Modern War Institute, retired General James Mingus and Lieutenant Colonel Maggie Harris lay out what readers of this site have watched unfold in real time for three years: drones and ground robots are rewriting how wars are fought and…
Since Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, the High North has shifted from geopolitical afterthought to frontline chessboard. As NATO Arctic
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