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Close-up of a person in a plaid shirt holding an olive-green Ukrainian interceptor drone with yellow fins and twin rear rotors

Shahed · Ukraine

Eric Schmidt Warns Ukraine's Drone Edge Is Gone. He Sells the Fix

Schmidt's Washington Post op-ed says Ukraine's innovation edge is losing to Russian mass. His byline omits Swift Beat, the drone maker he runs.

Haye KestelooSep 117 min read

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the boarding stairs of a Ukrainian government aircraft bearing the Ukraina livery

UKRAINE

Norway's PM Says A Drone Nearly Hit Zelenskyy's Plane. Kyiv Balks

Norway's prime minister says a drone almost hit Zelenskyy's plane leaving Moldova. A source in Zelenskyy's own office calls that account exaggerated.

Haye KestelooSep 9

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

IRAN

US Puts a $15 Million Bounty on Iran's IRGC Drone Maker, an Admission That Sanctions Alone Aren't Working

The State Department's Rewards for Justice program is offering up to $15 million for tips that disrupt KIPAS, the IRGC Qods Force drone builder the US has sanctioned since 2021. The poster names seven officials. Most wire reports counted six.

Haye KestelooAug 1

Shahed

Eric Schmidt Warns Ukraine's Drone Edge Is Gone. He Sells the Fix

Norway's PM Says A Drone Nearly Hit Zelenskyy's Plane. Kyiv Balks

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

US Puts a $15 Million Bounty on Iran's IRGC Drone Maker, an Admission That Sanctions Alone Aren't Working

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