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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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On the thin ice by Florian Ledoux. A colossal male polar bear strides on the fragile ice of late spring in Svalbard. Each year, the sea ice region in Svalbard diminishes, as this area experiences a warming rate seven times quicker than the global average.

Ukraine

NATO’s Arctic drone gap is widening

Since Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, the High North has shifted from geopolitical afterthought to frontline chessboard. As NATO Arctic

Rafael SuárezFeb 24

Ukraine

FT’s ‘kill zone’ report confirms what Ukraine’s frontline has become: a drone-dominated no-man’s-land

The Financial Times sent reporters into eastern Ukraine and came back with a term that every military planner should memorize: the “kill zone.” It is the strip of land closest to the front lines where anything that moves, on wheels, on foot, or on treads, gets targeted and destroyed by first-person-view drones. We have been…

Haye KestelooFeb 23

Ukraine

FPV drones strike Myanmar passenger plane at Myitkyina Airport in second attack this month

An ATR-72-600 turboprop operated by Myanmar National Airlines was hit by multiple FPV suicide drones while passengers were boarding at Myitkyina Airport on the evening of February 20, 2026. No one was killed or injured, but the attack marks the second time in eight days that drones have targeted the airport, and what appears to…

Haye KestelooFeb 22

Ukraine

Ukraine Upgrades Ratel H With Fiber Optic Drone Launcher

The Ukrainian company Ratel Robotics announced on February 18 that its domestically produced Ratel H unmanned ground vehicle has been

Rafael SuárezFeb 20

Ukraine

Europe’s 500 km Kamikaze Drone Goes Mass Production

Europe is not just designing a long range loitering munition. It is redesigning how such weapons are built. Under the European Long-range Strike Approach framework, the One Way Effector 500 Plus is emerging as a deliberately simple, industrial scale strike system, as Interesting Engineering reports. And the word simple keeps coming up for a reason.…

Rafael SuárezFeb 20

Ukraine Signs Drone Production Deal With Norway As NATO Allies Race To Access Battle-Tested Tech

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Europe’s E5 Defense Ministers Back LEAP Program to Build Low-Cost Autonomous Drones Inspired by Ukraine

Europe’s five biggest military spenders are formalizing what Ukraine’s drone operators figured out the hard way: cheap autonomous systems beat expensive traditional ones. The UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland are expected to announce a new joint drone and missile development program as early as Friday, February 20, during a defense ministers’ meeting in Poland,…

Haye KestelooFeb 19

Ukraine

Quantum Systems eyes early 2027 IPO as Morgan Stanley tapped for fresh $710 million funding round

We have been tracking Quantum Systems‘ rise from small civilian drone maker to what the company calls Europe’s first “triple unicorn” in dual-use technology for nearly two years now. Today, the trajectory just got a lot steeper. The Peter Thiel-backed German drone company is preparing for an initial public offering that could take place by…

Haye KestelooFeb 19

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China Studies Predators to Train AI Drones

As global militaries sprint through the AI arms race, China is leaning into a strategy that sounds less like a defense white paper and more

Rafael SuárezFeb 18

Ukraine

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