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Ukraine’s Madyar Brovdi Outpaces Russia’s Recruitment: $878 Per Kill, 400-to-1 Exchange Rate
Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, is bleeding Russia’s army faster than Moscow can replace it. A detailed profile published today in The Economist reveals that December 2025 was the first month in four years of war…
2,000 Drones Drew BTS Over Seoul for Their Comeback
On the evening of March 20, two thousand drones lifted off over Ttukseom Hangang Park in northeastern Seoul and spent roughly 15 minutes painting the night sky with the faces of seven men who hadn’t performed together in almost four…
Skydio Wins $52 Million Army Order for Nearly 3,000 X10D Drones, the Largest Single-Vendor sUAS Purchase in U.S. Military History
The U.S. Army has placed an order exceeding $52 million with Skydio for nearly 3,000 X10D drones, the company announced today. It is the largest small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) procurement from a single vendor in Army history. The contract…
2nd Cavalry Scouts With Drones, Not Soldiers
In a forest near Grafenwöhr, Germany, the scouts of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment are doing something that would have been science fiction to the cavalrymen who rode these same European roads eighty years ago, as 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment…
Army Taps Anduril for $20B AI Counter-Drone Framework
The Department of War awarded Anduril Industries a 10-year contract with a ceiling value of up to $20 billion on March 13, consolidating over 120 separate procurement actions into a single enterprise agreement built around the company’s AI-powered Lattice software…
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…
This $155 Drone Built With a $5 Chip Hits 67 mph
Nobody asked Max Imagination to do this. There was no grant, no sponsor, no defense contract. Just a YouTuber, an ESP32 microcontroller that costs about as much as a decent burrito, a consumer 3D printer, and a question that apparently…
Baykar Unveils K2: A Cruise Missile That Costs Like a Drone
Turkey’s Baykar unveiled the K2 Kamikaze UAV on March 14, and the promotional video was set to Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2. That detail tells you something about how Baykar sees itself at this point, as QUWA reported. Five K2s lifted…
Switzerland Is Testing Drones Where They’re Hardest to Fly
Switzerland’s government-backed Taskforce Drones is preparing its next round of UAS technical trials for autumn 2026, building on a December 2025 campaign that pushed attack drones and counter-drone systems through some of the most challenging terrain in Europe, as JANES…
The DJI Mini 4K Is On Sale for $269 and It Might Be Your Sign
Let me save you some time. If you’ve been going back and forth on whether to buy your first drone, reading reviews, watching YouTube videos, adding things to your cart and then closing the tab, this is the article that’s…
Anduril FURY Combat Drone Production Starts at Ohio’s Arsenal-1 as US Military Urgency Grows
Anduril Industries will begin building its FURY “loyal wingman” high-speed combat drone within days at its new Arsenal-1 facility in Pickaway County, south of Columbus, Ohio, according to a Reuters report published March 19, 2026 (paywalled). The nearly $1 billion…
Ukraine’s Interceptor Elite: Meet the 5 Drones Reshaping Global Air Defense
Ukraine produces at least five distinct interceptor drone models purpose-built to destroy Iranian-designed Shahed and Russian-produced Geran attack drones, and Gulf states are lining up to buy them, according to a detailed breakdown published March 19 by UNITED24 Media. These…
Ukraine’s 66th Brigade Shifts to System Destruction on Lyman Axis, and It’s Working
The Lyman axis has been one of the more grinding sections of the front for months. But something has changed. Ukrainian forces there are no longer leading with infantry engagements. They’re going after the machine behind the machine. Ukraine’s Mara…
South Bend PD Taps Flock Safety for No-Cost Drone as First Responder Pilot
The South Bend Police Department in Indiana has launched a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program through a one-year, no-cost partnership with Flock Safety, according to local reporting on the program. Eight FAA-certified operators inside the department’s Real Time Crime…
Ukraine Deploys Drone Interception Units to Five Middle Eastern Countries as Umerov Outlines Long-Term Security Deals
Ukraine has deployed military units to protect critical and civilian infrastructure against drones in five Middle Eastern countries, according to Reuters. Rustem Umerov, Ukraine’s Minister of Defence, announced the deployments on March 20, 2026, following a tour of the United…
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…
Luke Bell’s Solar Drone V2 Crashes Again After 2.5 Minutes — But the Engineering Keeps Getting Sharper
The panel array is 32 hand-soldered photovoltaic cells wired in an 8×4 grid across a carbon fiber frame — and it still can’t stay in the air long enough to grab lunch. That’s where Luke Bell’s solar drone project stands…
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