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Ukraine

Motor-G ships 200,000 drone motors per month, making it Ukraine’s largest engine manufacturer by a wide margin

The Ukrainian drone motor market consumed roughly 9.6 million units last year. One company now claims 17% of that market. A detailed feature by Defender Media profiles Motor-G, the Ukrainian manufacturer behind those numbers. We have been covering Ukraine’s push toward domestic drone component production since Vyriy first demonstrated 100% Ukrainian-sourced FPV drones in early…

Haye KestelooMar 3

Ukraine

Ukraine’s GUR Publishes Full Teardowns of Russia’s Drones and Missiles, Names Every Foreign Part Inside

Ukraine's GUR has launched a massive forensic database detailing 5,534 foreign components found in Russian weaponry. From Nvidia AI chips in autonomous Shaheds to German transistors in jet-powered Geran-3 drones, see the full teardowns and the global manufacturers fueling the conflict.

Haye KestelooMar 2

Russia

Russia Built Drones That Dodge. Ukraine Built Hunters.

,On the eastern front, the sky is more contested than the ground. And inside a downed Russian drone, Ukrainian soldiers found a circuit board that changed everything they thought they knew about the fight above their heads, as Armyinform reports. The Circuit Board That Explained Everything Major Ihor Romanenko of Ukraine’s 3rd Separate Heavy Mechanized…

Rafael SuárezMar 2

FPV

Blackbird Builder Benjamin Biggs Opens Up About the 690 km/h Drone, John Wick, and the Sound Barrier Wall

There is a specific sound a drone makes at 690 km/h. It is not the low hum you hear at a park. It is a high-pitched scream — brief, startling, and then gone. Most people watching laugh. They cannot process what just happened. Benjamin Biggs, the Melbourne aerospace engineer behind the Blackbird speed drone, has…

Haye KestelooMar 2

Ukraine Says Drones Now Destroy Over 80% of Enemy Targets, and Moscow Is Not Amused

Weaponized drones

Algorithm Warfare Is Here: How $500 Commercial Drones Are Beating $5 Million Tanks and What the Pentagon Must Do Next

A soldier in a trench, wearing a $300 pair of FPV goggles and holding a hobbyist controller, can guide a commercial drone carrying a $500 payload into a $5 million tank. The math is brutal and it only moves in one direction.

Haye KestelooFeb 27

Ukraine

Ukraine’s Alpha Gets 25,000 Strike Drones

A tidal wave of drones has just landed in the hands of one of Ukraine’s most capable special units. Soldiers from the Special Operations Center “A” of the Security Service of Ukraine, better known as Alpha, have received more than 25,000 drones from the Come Back Alive Foundation. According to the foundation, this marks the…

Rafael SuárezFeb 25

LiteWing Stabilization Module that allows drones to navigate without GPS Satellite connection | Photo Credit: LiteWing

DJI

This Module by LiteWing Might Be Our Answer to Drone Navigation Without GPS

When my students transition from DJI drones that have waypoint missions, GPS modules, and AI tracking, down to a 75mm FPV drone, they’re quick to point out how difficult they are to control: that’s where LiteWing’s Stabilization Module picks up the slack for smaller projects. Most drones of that size can’t spare a few grams…

Zachary PeeryFeb 25

Ukraine

FT’s ‘kill zone’ report confirms what Ukraine’s frontline has become: a drone-dominated no-man’s-land

The Financial Times sent reporters into eastern Ukraine and came back with a term that every military planner should memorize: the “kill zone.” It is the strip of land closest to the front lines where anything that moves, on wheels, on foot, or on treads, gets targeted and destroyed by first-person-view drones. We have been…

Haye KestelooFeb 23

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