The US Navy struck Iran's Bandar Abbas with sea drones in its first ever combat use of the platform. And: a $400 drone kills a $19M helicopter, Moscow refinery's flying tank lid, first CCA live-fire, Storm Fighter unveiled, Helsing's $1.8bn round. Sea...
Category: Drones & Uncrewed
FPV Drone Strikes 110 Kilometers Into Russian Lines
A Ukrainian FPV drone hit Russian logistics 110km out, guided by AI that keeps flying after jamming cuts the link. Elsewhere: Apache gets drone wingmen, Ukraine's robots run frontline logistics, a £1.5bn Hybrid Navy, and a £2bn AI battle lab. A Small...
Ukraine’s Ground Robots Scale Up
Ukraine's Trinity Robotics plans to double robot output to 2,200 units. Also: Iran's downed Reapers, a UK drone warship, Anduril's NATO win, a killer robot ban, Kraken's unicorn round, GPS-denied maps, AI decision limits. Ukraine's Trinity Robotics,...
Bridges Fall Piece by Piece
Ukraine has downed more bridges this month than in the previous three years combined, using $55k drones and AI-guided mini cruise missiles. Plus: Pentagon consolidates drone oversight, London stands up a taskforce, Ukraine exports FPVs to the US. Bridges...
Russia’s Drone Launching Shadow Fleet
IISS traces 144 European drone sightings across 13 states to Russia's shadow fleet. Also: One Pentagon drone office, London's £5 billion autonomy bet, NDAA doctrine push, Ukraine's Pacific test run, CCA production start. A Paper Trail For GhostsA...
Drones Are Eating the Military’s Command Structure Too
Ukraine floats a stratosphere missile that defeats Russian jamming by cutting its own navigation off. Also: Britain ditches its destroyers for drone-coordinating warships, a US company cleared a fortified breach with 35 drones and 100 pounds of C4, AI is...
Shaheds That Think, Drones That Pay, and a $4 Billion IPO
Ukraine's top drone analyst says AI autonomous targeting is weeks away for Shaheds. Also: Kyiv's e-Points system is steering units toward harder targets 100 km from the front, a hand-launched recon drone reaches 150 km for a fraction of the usual cost, an...
Britain Looks to Uncrewed Systems as its Crewed Systems Falter
General Sir Roly Walker states half of the British Army's entire capital budget will go to consumables and uncrewed systems by 2030, and every soldier must be able to operate a drone. Defence Secretary Jarvis followed with a formal commitment to uncrewed...
AI Moves Into the Physical World, the Military Watches Closely
Anthropic's Claude programs a robodog 20 times faster than its fastest human team; six companies build an autonomous drone-killing ground robot in 28 hours at the US Army's Operation Jailbreak. Also: Ukraine opens its combat AI data to 100 firms, Germany...
