Russia just copied Ukraine’s cleverest drone hunter
A $500,000 missile is a costly way of taking down a $50,000 attack drone. So the Russians are arming old planes with cheap interceptor drones.
Some Ukrainian bomber drones aren’t carrying bombs anymore. They’re carrying robots.
Roads can be treacherous for Ukraine's explosive unmanned ground vehicles. So heavy bomber drones are now airlifting them into action.
Ukraine is trying to wreck Russia’s oil fleet without spilling its oil—the Black Sea can’t take another slick
Ukraine's countershipping campaign risks polluting the fragile Black Sea. Drone operators are trying to spill less oil.
Russian troops inch toward Lyman. Drones keep delaying the plan.
Fedorov's middle-strike drones are throttling the supply lines behind the Russian push. Whether they keep doing it without him is the question hanging over Sloviansk.
Russia bet 50 vehicles that the drones would miss. The drones did not miss.
Russian commanders had banned their own vehicles from these roads, knowing what the drones do to them. Then they lined up 50 and sent them anyway.
A $50 computer just flew Russia’s newest jet drone into a Ukrainian grain ship—and jamming couldn’t stop it
Russia's fast, highly autonomous Geran-4 one-way attack drone is the weapon of choice for strikes on Ukrainian grain ships.
Ukraine’s $500 Vyriy FPV drone just flew 110 km to hit Russian logistics. That used to cost $5,000.
With a denser battery, a lighter warhead and a wing, a cheap first-person-view drone can now range 110 km.
Ukraine is advancing in the southeast. It’s still not enough to win the war
The ongoing fight for Komar is a microcosm for the wider war. Ukrainian troops are advancing. But that doesn't mean the war is about to end.
Three F-16s and a Patriot battery teamed up to kill Russia’s best fighter
The two systems each have a weakness against Russian jets. Working together—one seeing, the other shooting—they cancelled both out.
A $50k Ukrainian drone just hit a refinery 2,500 km inside Russia. The expensive missiles couldn’t
With bigger wings and more fuel, Ukrainian drones can range deeper inside Russia to hit once unreachable targets.
Russia is running out of its best eyes in the sky
Russia's giant radar early warning planes can spot incoming Ukrainian missiles. What happens when there aren't enough planes?
Russia lost ground for a second straight month in June. CSIS says it has lost the initiative too
The war in Ukraine is grinding into a new frozen state as Russian advances slow or reverse in recent months.
Ukraine’s ballistic missile may have reached Moscow. The damage wasn’t the point.
Ukrainian developers rush new weapons into combat to gather data, not to inflict damage—the way Fire Point spent a year missing before the Flamingo started landing. The first ballistic shot was doing that job.
For two years, Ukraine’s strikes barely scratched Russia’s war factories. Something just changed.
The warheads finally got heavy enough to leave damage that lasts—and Ukraine's drones cleared the air defenses that used to stop the missiles short.