The war that rewrote drone doctrine. FPV strikes, interceptors, jamming, and the industrial race behind them — reported from the open record.
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush stood beside a recovered Iranian Shahed drone at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables on July 8 and warned that roughly 300 of them now sit in Cuba, within range of South Florida. U.S. Representative Carlos Gimenez, a Republican from Florida, stood with him. The drone behind them, a Shahed-136,…
Lorenz Meier picked a fight with half the defense industry on July 1. The Auterion founder, creator of the Pixhawk flight controller and the widely adopted open-source PX4 autopilot, published an essay arguing that the United States, Germany, and Ukraine now buy attack drones the way consumers buy cell phones: interchangeable hardware, replaced every two…
Thales agreed on Monday to buy the Gorgé family’s 35.51% stake in Exail Technologies for €134 per share ($153), the first step in a full takeover of the French maritime drone maker at an enterprise value of €3.9 billion ($4.45 billion). The agreement lands three days after rival Safran abandoned its own exclusive talks for…
Ukraine plans to sign drone agreements with at least seven NATO countries before the end of 2026, and some signatures could come as soon as this week’s alliance summit in Ankara. Davyd Aloian, deputy secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, set the target in an interview published Monday. Six countries have already signed:…
The Dutch Ministry of Defense will invest more than €30 million in Intelic, the Amsterdam company whose NEXUS command-and-control software lets drones from competing manufacturers fly inside a single operational picture. The three-year strategic partnership, announced Friday, makes the Netherlands what Intelic says is the first country in the world to formally fund a Software-First…
A Ukrainian studio has trained more than 7,000 military drone operators on a simulator built to behave almost exactly like a real FPV strike drone, and it hands the software to the armed forces for free. The Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator, or UFDS, comes from Simtech Solutions, a roughly 30-person team whose founders pulled their…
Ukrainian Defense Drones (UDD), the U.S. company representing Ukraine’s F-Drones, has chosen the Village of Holland in Northwest Ohio for its first American assembly and manufacturing center. The company plans to invest $18.4 million and create at least 300 jobs in Lucas County by the end of 2029, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Congresswoman Marcy…
A college student says he built the world’s fastest RC airplane in his dorm: a 5 kg carbon-fiber jet he claims hits 500 mph. The engineering is real. The legality isn’t.
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