The war that rewrote drone doctrine. FPV strikes, interceptors, jamming, and the industrial race behind them — reported from the open record.
AeroVironment has secured a $96 million U.S. Army contract to produce Freedom Eagle counter-drone missiles, marking a historic shift in American defense manufacturing. The California-based company beat RTX—the world’s second-largest defense contractor—to win the Next-Generation Counter-UAS Missile program. This breakthrough ends decades of dominance by a handful of traditional missile manufacturer
Ukraine is deploying approximately 9,000 drones per day against Russian forces, according to a top Ukrainian military official, revealing an operational tempo that dwarfs global drone production capacity and underscores how completely unmanned systems now dominate modern warfare. Ivan Pavlenko, chief of the electronic warfare directorate of Ukraine’s armed forces, disclosed the figure during a…
What Ukrainian troops dismissed as “Star Wars” fantasy a year ago has become the most cost-effective air defense innovation of the war—and now NATO is racing to adopt the same technology. Ukraine’s cheap interceptor drones are hunting down Russian attack drones mid-flight at a fraction of traditional missile costs, fundamentally changing how modern air defense…
Iran summoned Poland’s ambassador in Tehran on Thursday to formally protest Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski’s participation in a UK Parliament display of a captured Shahed-136 drone allegedly used by Russia in Ukraine, according to Press TV. The diplomatic summons escalates tensions over Western accusations that Iran supplies attack drones to Moscow’s military campaign. The…
German mobility systems provider DEUTZ is becoming the lead investor in defense technology company ARX Robotics' strategic funding round
A 56-year-old former television producer has built Ukraine’s most lethal drone unit, destroying an estimated 12 billion dollars’ worth of Russian military equipment—including a significant share of Russian tanks lost since the 2022 invasion. Colonel Pavlo Yelizarov, who once produced Ukraine’s most popular political talk show, now commands Lasar’s Group—a previously secretive National Guard unit…
The European Union’s ambitious plan to build a continent-wide anti-drone defense system is hitting major political turbulence, with Germany and France blocking progress despite urgent security threats from repeated Russian drone incursions across NATO airspace. The project, originally pitched as a “drone wall” to protect the EU’s eastern border, has been rebranded as the “European…
Taiwan’s newly unveiled “T-Dome” air defense system places counter-drone capabilities at the heart of the island’s military modernization, responding to escalating Chinese drone incursions with an integrated approach that combines traditional missile defense with cutting-edge anti-UAV technology. Defense Minister Wellington Koo announced Monday that the system will establish a more efficient “sens
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