The war that rewrote drone doctrine. FPV strikes, interceptors, jamming, and the industrial race behind them — reported from the open record.
Investigators confirm Semtex and PETN in the Leipzig drone bomb, which slipped past airport defenses and sat unseen beside a Ukrainian An-124 for four hours.
A Russian FPV drone chased 52-year-old vegetable seller Yurii around his van in Kherson, then detonated. The UN called this campaign a crime against humanity in 2025.
A drone carrying an improvised explosive device was found feet from a Ukrainian Antonov cargo plane on the apron of Leipzig/Halle Airport. A bomb disposal robot removed the detonator, a DHL freighter struck an unknown object aborting its landing, and a counter-terrorism unit is treating the case as sabotage.
Quantum Systems gave its Vector reconnaissance drone a yellow fuselage that blends into Ukraine's dry summer fields and a rear-facing thermal camera whose AI dodges FPV interceptors without waiting for the operator. Both ideas were published by nature first.
Brave1 and NATO opened applications on July 28 for UNITE-Brave NATO, the first joint Ukraine-NATO innovation grant program. Teams chasing €10 million in counter-drone and air defense grants have until Monday, August 3 to file on Prozorro.
Ukraine's 3rd SSO Regiment received a KFC order by Heavy Shot bomber drone, showing how battlefield logistics now move food, medicine, and ammunition.
Ukrainian-born drone maker Skyeton will build Raybird reconnaissance aircraft at a 28,500-square-foot Fayetteville facility, creating 162 jobs with an average annual salary of $70,759.
Ten months after Ursula von der Leyen called for a European drone wall, drone warfare analyst Ulrike Franke finds the EU's counter-drone defenses largely missing in action, while Poland builds Europe's largest system on its own and incursions keep injuring civilians on NATO soil.
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