The war that rewrote drone doctrine. FPV strikes, interceptors, jamming, and the industrial race behind them — reported from the open record.
The numbers from Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi are stark: Russia currently produces 404 Shahed-type drones daily and plans to more than double that capacity to 1,000 units per day. That production target, revealed in an interview published Sunday by Ukrainian media outlet LB.ua, would represent a five to six-fold increase in Russia’s ability…
The Wall Street Journal just obtained something no Western media outlet has managed before—camera access inside the command center of Ukraine’s deadliest drone unit. What they found wasn’t a scrappy volunteer operation anymore. It was an industrial-scale killing machine that runs 24 hours a day, destroying Russian equipment at a rate that’s made its commander…
Four months ago, we reported that Paris-based Harmattan AI was seeking a billion-dollar valuation and was in talks with Dassault Aviation. The aerospace giant just called, and they’re bringing $200 million to the table. The Series B round values Harmattan at $1.4 billion, officially making it France’s newest defense unicorn and confirming what we’ve been…
Sweden is placing a very large bet on unmanned warfare, committing 4 billion Swedish crowns, about $440 million, to military drone systems that will be delivered over the next two years, a move that underlines how seriously Stockholm now views drones as core combat tools rather than niche add ons, as reported by Reuters. Sweden…
The same Silicon Valley investors who built Anduril into a $30 billion defense giant are now betting on a different kind of drone company: one founded by two twenty-somethings in Abuja, Nigeria, that manufactures its systems on the African continent with African engineers. That alone should tell you something about where the smart money thinks…
I’ve been reading a lot of optimistic press releases about American drone independence lately. The Pentagon wants a million drones. Executive orders promise to unleash domestic production. Politicians declare that we’re breaking free from Chinese supply chains. Then a defense-tech founder in Silicon Valley writes a Forbes column that quietly demolishes the entire narrative with…
A new high speed drone interceptor is now actively hunting enemy UAVs over Ukraine, and it does so at a pace that would leave most quadcopters gasping for air. The system is called AIR SPEED, and it represents the latest evolution in Ukraine’s rapidly maturing counter drone ecosystem, where speed, simplicity, and frontline practicality matter…
The drone skills you learned for your Part 107 business are now battlefield capabilities. That’s the uncomfortable reality buried in a massive New York Times investigation published this week, and it should concern every commercial operator in America. C.J. Chivers spent 18 months reporting from Ukrainian frontlines, test ranges, and drone workshops. What he documented…
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