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Two days ago, The National published a detailed breakdown of how to counter Iran’s Shahed-136 drone threat now hitting Gulf states. Fighters, heavy machine guns, Skyranger 35 systems, Gepard tanks, jamming guns — the full conventional toolkit. It’s a solid piece. But it has a notable gap. The word “interceptor” does not appear once. That’s…
The Oregon Department of Aviation (ODAV) just did something no federal agency has bothered to do: it counted the damage of the DJI Ban.
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.
The Kuwait friendly fire shootdown of three U.S. F-15E Strike Eagles proved why coordinating layered air defenses against Iranian drones is harder than buying the right hardware.
An Iranian drone struck the runway at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus around midnight local time on Sunday, March 2, 2026. The strike caused limited damage and no casualties. Hours earlier, an RAF Typhoon operating out of Qatar had shot down an Iranian drone in what the Ministry of Defence called a “defensive air patrol,” marking…
Phase I kicked off in February at Fort Benning. Twelve vendors competing to collectively deliver 30,000 drones at $5,000 a unit.
At Fort Indiantown Gap, the quiet February air is buzzing, not with helicopters, but with something smaller, sharper, and far more personal: drones. For ten days, as the National Guard reports, soldiers from across different units and specialties gathered to attend a small unmanned aircraft system operator course, known in military shorthand as sUAS The…
And so the battle begins. DJI just sued the FCC. And while that sounds dramatic and exciting, let’s slow down and come back to reality for just a minute. There’s a lot of noise around this lawsuit right now. My goal today isn’t to get you all fired up — it’s to get you informed.…
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