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Ukraine’s Fiber Optic FPV Drones Now Switch to Radio When the Cable Snaps
The Ukrainian military has tested an FPV (First-Person View) drone that carries both fiber optic and radio control channels at once, giving operators a live fallback the moment the fiber cable breaks or loops mid-flight. Tetyana Chornovol, a Ukrainian journalist,…
Ukraine’s Deep Strike Drone Campaign Stretches the Kill Zone to 150 Kilometers, Strangling Russia’s Rear Logistics
Ukraine’s drone forces have pushed the battlefield kill zone to roughly 150 kilometers behind the front line, a dramatic expansion from the 15 kilometers the Financial Times confirmed in February, according to The Telegraph (May 16, 2025, paywalled). Ukrainian drones…
Ukraine’s Drone Kill Zone Triples in Size as Deep Strike Command Centre Reshapes the War
Ukraine’s drone campaign is strangling Russian front-line logistics at a scale that wasn’t possible even a few weeks ago. Writing in The Telegraph, journalist Verity Bowman reports that Ukrainian drones can now strike targets up to 93 miles behind the…
Seneca’s Aspen Firefighting Drones Face the Real Test: Can They Suppress a Fire Before Humans Arrive?
Seneca‘s autonomous firefighting drones are heading to Aspen, Colorado this fire season, and the question fire chiefs have been asking for years is finally getting a field answer: can drones actually suppress a blaze before a human crew reaches the…
America Keeps Buying Expensive Drones. China Keeps Building Millions of Cheap Ones.
A Substack analysis by Kate McKenna has been circulating hard in defense circles this week, and the numbers inside deserve a wider audience. Eleven MQ-9 Reapers downed in under two weeks. $330 million gone, lost to Iranian surface-to-air missiles and…
Drones Light the Fire at Pisgah National Forest
The U.S. Forest Service used a modified Freefly Alta X carrying Drone Amplified’s IGNIS aerial ignition system to conduct prescribed burns at the Wilson Ridge unit in Pisgah National Forest last weekend, treating 290 acres of hazardous fuel in terrain…
UK Eyes Drones to Unlock Strait of Hormuz
Britain is drawing up plans to send autonomous minesweeping drones to the Strait of Hormuz as Iran’s threat to international shipping pushes oil prices past $100 a barrel. The UK won’t send warships, as Trump demanded over the weekend. Instead,…
Teen Rescued from Oregon Cliff Face. A DJI Drone Showed the Way.
A teenager called his dad from a cliff saying he was sliding and was going to fall. His father, a retired firefighter and paramedic, drove 90 minutes and stayed on the phone the whole way. A Coast Guard helicopter and…
Kratos Wins $7M Contract to Detect Drones and Cruise Missiles
A classified customer just handed Kratos a production contract for a system that hunts low-profile drones and cruise missiles. Who ordered it and where it deploys stays secret. What it does does not. The Contract Kratos Will Not Talk About…
China’s AI-Powered Radar Takes On Drone Swarms as US-Iran War Drives New Detection Race
The Iran conflict is doing more than destroying infrastructure and tankers. It’s stress-testing air defense systems in real time, and Beijing is watching every radar return very carefully. China has publicly confirmed it is integrating AI algorithms into its air…
The A-29 Super Tucano Just Got an AI Brain for Hunting Drones
Brazil’s legendary light attack aircraft is getting an American AI upgrade. The target is cheap drones. The logic is simple and devastating, as Flight Global reported. The Problem With Using a Ferrari to Chase a Bicycle Every time a Western…
A Ukrainian Drone Came Home with a Russian Trident Stuck in It
A bomber drone flew a strike mission over Kharkiv, Ukrain survived, and returned to base impaled by two feet of nails and steel rods shaped into a trident. Nobody had seen this before. The Drone That Came Home Wrong Late…