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Bundeswehr soldier in camouflage and balaclava holding a controller while a gray quadcopter hovers above him over a field

Drone Warfare · Germany

Germany Builds 600-Soldier Drone Regiment as US Army Scraps Its Own

Germany will stand up a 600-soldier drone regiment in 2027 with a 500 km reach and its own jammers, weeks after the US Army ended a same-size unit nearby.

Haye KestelooOct 54 min read

Lineup of AI-generated military robots including a humanoid, quadrupeds, a tracked snake robot and gun carts in a foggy field

Ukraine

Fedorov Wants A Humanoid Robot Killing Russians Within Six Months

Fired as defense minister in July, the man behind Ukraine's Army of Drones launched an Army of Robots and set a six-month target for a humanoid kill.

Haye KestelooSep 26

Onboard camera HUD from an autonomous attack drone showing an armed payload and a locked AEV target over a snowy landscape

Technology

NATO-Backed Drone Picked Its Own Target And Dropped A Bomb

Scaleout's onboard AI picked an armored vehicle out of a Swedish test range and struck it with no direct human command. Geneva is still arguing.

Haye KestelooSep 18

US soldier in a camouflaged helmet holding a drone controller next to a quadcopter on a Humvee hood

US Army

US Army Axes Drone Battalion Months After Ukrainians Beat Its Troops

Ukrainian drone operators beat US troops at Hohenfels. Now the Army is ending its only drone assault battalion, and an ex-Pentagon official asks why.

Haye KestelooSep 16

Robert Brovdi in camouflage uniform and cap standing in front of a burned-out apartment building

Ukraine

Ukraine's Drones Kill the General Who Told Putin Kostiantynivka Fell

Ukraine's drone forces killed Maj. Gen. Anton Grunis, the Hero of Russia who told Putin in July that Kostiantynivka had fallen. Moscow confirmed the death.

Haye KestelooSep 16

Ukrainian FPV strike quadcopter hovering low over a forest track with a payload module on its back, illustrating Anthropic's report on Russian developers using Claude Code to build autonomous kamikaze drone swarm software

Ukraine

Anthropic Catches Russians Using Claude to Code Self-Targeting Drones

Anthropic says a freelance Russian team used Claude Code to build kamikaze drone swarm software that picks targets, including people, with no human veto.

Haye KestelooSep 12

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's former defense minister, photographed against a dark blue backdrop

Defense Tech

Fedorov Offers The US A Drone Fleet For Patriot Missiles

Ukraine's ousted defense minister is in Washington offering drone help for Patriot interceptors, days after taking an unpaid advisory job in Rome.

Haye KestelooAug 31

General Cherry AIR interceptor FPV drone on a stand under red lighting

Counter-UAS

General Cherry Pitches $900 Drone Against Romania's $400,000 Missiles

General Cherry pitches its $900 AIR interceptor against Romania's $400,000 missile shots, days after Patria signed to build its drones in Finland. One catch.

Haye KestelooAug 29

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