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UK’s 12th Regiment Deploys to Middle East as Drone Warfare Lessons Go Global
The kill chain the 12th Regiment Royal Artillery built in Ukraine — sense, warn, target — is now heading to the Middle East. Britain deployed its lead counter-drone formation to the region on March 3, 2026, according to reporting by…
5 Essential Drone Shots Every Pilot Should Master Before Moving to Advanced Maneuvers
Too many new drone pilots jump straight into advanced moves without mastering the basics. There are five drone shots that you should be practicing first. I’m Greg, the co-founder of Pilot Institute, where more than 400,000 students have already learned…
Weekly UAS News: Oregon Exposes FCC Ban Costs, DJI’s 96% Market Share, Export Rule Changes, Illegal Drone Deer Scouting, and a 925-Foot Tower Rescue
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have five stories for you this week. First up, Oregon exposes the real cost of the FCC ban. Second, a very interesting FAA study that reveals drone market shares. Third, the Commerce…
Zelenskyy Confirms U.S. Request for Ukrainian Anti-Shahed Support — While Fox News Was Accidentally Airing Ukrainian Drone Footage as American Technology
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Wednesday that the United States has formally asked Ukraine for help defending against Iranian-made Shahed drones in the Middle East. “We received a request from the United States for specific support in protection against ‘shaheds’ in…
Pentagon And Gulf States Eye Ukrainian Interceptor Drones As Patriot Missile Stocks Run Low
The economics finally broke. Gulf states spent the last week firing Patriot interceptors worth over $13.5 million each at Iranian Shaheds that cost $30,000 to build. Now, according to reporting by the Financial Times, the Pentagon and at least one…
Shahed Drones Are Hitting The Gulf And The $2,500 Answer Is Still Being Ignored
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…
Neros Technologies Joins Swindon’s Military Drone Cluster With £10M UK Investment
Swindon has quietly become one of the more consequential defense drone addresses in Europe. The latest arrival: Neros Technologies, the Los Angeles-based manufacturer best known for its NDAA-compliant Archer fiber-optic FPV drone, has confirmed it is opening its first UK…
Oregon Exposes the Real Cost of the DJI Ban: 25 States Report 467 Restricted Drones and Up to $2 Billion in National Exposure
The Oregon Department of Aviation (ODAV) just did something no federal agency has bothered to do: it counted the damage. A new white paper compiled by ODAV through the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) surveyed 25 state transportation…
France Deploys Anti-Drone Systems to Cyprus After Iran’s Shahed Reaches RAF Akrotiri
France is sending anti-drone systems to Cyprus following the Iranian Shahed strike on RAF Akrotiri that hit the runway just after midnight on March 2. Reuters first reported the deployment decision. It makes France the first European ally to send…
Ukraine’s GUR Publishes Full Teardowns of Russia’s Drones and Missiles, Names Every Foreign Part Inside
I spent the morning clicking through 3D models of Russian attack drones on a Ukrainian intelligence website. You can rotate them, zoom in on individual circuit boards, and read the manufacturer name stamped on each chip. The level of detail…
Inside the Secret Munich Factory Producing 10,000 Ukrainian Drones a Year
We have been covering the Build With Ukraine initiative since its earliest announcements, and this latest report from the Wall Street Journal fills in details that confirm what we have been reporting for months: the flow of military drone technology…
Countering Iran’s Shahed drones: fighter jets, machine guns, and the friendly fire problem Kuwait just exposed
The Kuwait friendly fire shootdown of three U.S. F-15E Strike Eagles early Monday morning just proved, in the worst possible way, why coordinating layered air defenses against cheap Iranian drones is harder than buying the right hardware. Military experts are…