As previously noted, Ukraine is massively enhancing its drone fleet with a variety of new models — but few of them are as unusual as the Corvo drones which Melbourne company SYPAQ has just announced i...
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Captured Manual Reveals Russia’s New “Assault Detachment” Doctrine
KUPIANSK, UKRAINE – FEBRUARY 24: Destroyed Russian tanks are seen in Kupiansk, Ukraine on February … [+] 24, 2023. Kupiansk has been one of the hardest hit areas in the last weeks of the w...
China May Provide Artillery And Drones To Russia—Despite Public Calls For Peace Deal
Topline China is considering supplying Russian military forces with drones and artillery in its war with Ukraine, multiple outlets reported Friday on the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of U...
Dronamics lands $40M pre-Series A for cargo drones that ‘can cross all of Europe in 12 hours or less’
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Iranian Drones Are Being Modified To Russian Specifications
As Russia and Iran push ahead with plans to build a new factory for manufacturing thousands of loitering munitions (single-use, self-detonating drones) for the Ukraine war, remnants of one of these dr...
Ukraine Uses Camouflage Nets To Snare Russian Drones Attacking Its Artillery
VERKHNOTORETSKE, DONETSK, UKRAINE – 2021/12/27: Ukrainian army vehicle seen under the masking net in … [+] the Verkhnotoretske village that is situated on the very frontline between Ukrain...
Ukrainian MiGs Firing Radar-Fuzed Rockets—Just The Thing For Shooting Down Russian Drones
A USAF F-94C fires air-to-air rockets. U.S. Air Force photo The United States has pledged to Ukraine a consignment of Zuni unguided rockets. There are two ways the Ukrainians could use them—firing the...
Iran Might Be Waiting Until October To Supply Russia Deadlier Drones And Missiles For Ukraine
Since September, Russia has launched hundreds of Iranian-supplied loitering munitions (self-detonating drones) against Ukraine’s power grid. Tehran has much faster and deadlier drones and short-...
Ukraine’s Drones Keep Hitting Russia’s Bomber Bases. Now Russian Missile Crews Are Getting Jumpy.
A Russian air force Su-27 in 2016. Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian military on Dec. 29 apparently sent more explosives-laden drones to strike a Russian air force base outside Moscow. It was at least t...
Ukrainian Commandos Decimate Russian Mechanized Force Using Racing Hobby Drones
SHENZHEN, CHINA – MARCH 28: A DJI First-Person View (FPV) drone is seen at Mission Hills Golf Club … [+] on March 28, 2021 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. (Photo by Liang Xiashun...
Russian Jamming Fails To Stop More Drone Attacks
Russia extended its attempts to jam satellite navigation systems after the drone attack on Engels Airbase on December 5th. Open-source data show a huge ‘bubble’ of jamming signals around Moscow and se...
Russia’s Electronic-Warfare Troops Knocked Out 90 Percent Of Ukraine’s Drones
A Russian army Pole-21 jamming system. Russian state media photo The Russian military’s failures in Russia’s wider war on Ukraine almost are too numerous to list. Too many attacks along too many secto...
Why Does Ukraine Want Patriot Missiles Which Could Not Protect Saudi Arabia Against Drones?
According to news reports, the U.S. is finalizing plans to send Patriot missile batteries to Ukraine. The country has been coming under increasing attack from Russian drones and cruise missiles and ac...
To Stop Killer Drones, Ukraine Upgrades Ancient Flak Guns With Consumer Cameras And Tablets
At an exercise near Dnipro, a crew uses a tablet with a feed from two commercial CCTV cameras sold … [+] by Chinese company Hikvision to aim a 20-millimeter M75 anti-aircraft gun. Ukraine Territ...
Drones, Fertility, and Defi — A Look at Alameda Research’s Massive $5.4 Billion Portfolio of Investments – Bitcoin News
Over the last few weeks, there’s been a lot of information revealed surrounding the recent FTX and Alameda Research disaster. On Dec. 6, the Financial Times (FT) published documentation that shows Ala...
Ukraine Has The Weapons To Attack Moscow, But Ukrainian Leaders Probably Know Better
A Ukrainian Tu-143 launches in 2014. Ukrainian defense ministry capture When Ukrainian drones struck a pair of Russian air force bomber bases more than 300 miles inside the Russian border, they didn’t...
His MiG-29 In Flames, Blood Pouring Down His Face, This Ukrainian Pilot Still Managed To Snap A Selfie
Vadym Voroshylov parachutes to Earth following his October battle with Russian drones. Instagram photo via the Ukrainian defense ministry An accomplished photographer and videographer, Maj. Vadym Voro...
Ukraine’s Drones Spell Danger For A Vast Swathe Of Russia As New Airbase Strike Reported
The Ukrainian strikes which we reported yesterday on Russian airbases 400 miles inside Russian territory have huge implications for this conflict. Now social media reports describe a fresh drone attac...
Ukraine Pulled Ex-Soviet Recon Drones Out Of Storage, Added Bombs And Sent Them Hurtling Toward Russia
An ex-Soviet Tu-141 variant in storage in Moscow in 2012. Alan Wilson photo The drones that Ukrainian forces used to strike two Russian bomber bases 300 miles inside Russia on Monday weren’t the satel...
Ukrainian Drones Just Took Out A Russian Heavy Bomber 300 Miles From Ukraine
A damaged Russian air force Tu-22M bomber following the Dec. 5 drone raid. Via social media For ten months, the Russian air force’s heavy bombers have bombarded Ukrainian cities with impunity, lobbing...
Why Armenia And Serbia Might Seek Iranian Drones
It has been an excellent year for Iranian drone exports. Tehran infamously supplied Russia with hundreds of its Shahed-136 loitering munitions (self-detonating or “suicide” drones) for use in the Ukra...
Here’s What Lies Ahead For Ukraine’s “Teenage Democracy”
KYIV, UKRAINE – 2022/11/11: People hold a banner that says “Kherson is Ukraine” celebrating the … [+] liberation of Kherson from Russian occupiers in central Kyiv. Ukrainian ar...
Ukraine’s Drone Boats Are Winning The Black Sea Naval War
A Ukrainian unmanned surface vehicle, beached near Sevastopol. Via social media An apparent Ukrainian drone-boat strike on Novorossiysk, a hundred miles from Russian-occupied Crimea in southern Russia...
Russian Soldiers Are Surrendering To Ukrainian Drones. This Has Happened Before.
Russian prisoners in Ukraine. Via social media Firing missiles, dropping tiny bombs and spotting targets for artillery, the Ukrainian army’s drones undoubtedly are responsible for hundreds, if not tho...
The Russians Have Lost Nearly 300 Aircraft Over Ukraine—Mostly Drones
A Russian fighter burns after being shot down over Ukraine in March 2022. Via social media Ukrainian troops have brought down 278 Russian aircraft in the eight months since Russia widened its war on U...
Iran May Hope To Replicate Turkey’s Success Exporting Drones. Here’s Why It Can’t.
Recent comments from top Iranian officials strongly suggest that Tehran perceives itself as a rapidly ascending arms exporter, especially of drones. In reality, Iran, at least under the incumbent regi...
The Russian Black Sea Fleet May Have Lost Another Flagship
‘Admiral Makarov.’ Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian navy for months has been hunting the Russian navy frigate Admiral Makarov. It seems the Ukrainians finally got a shot at the 409-foot, mi...
Videos Reveal Drone Kamikaze Boat Assault On Russia’s Black Sea Fleet
Perspective of USV approaching Russian Navy frigate Admiral Makarov on morning of October 29. Video capture from Ukrainian military video On the morning of October 29, warships of Russia’s Black Sea F...