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.
Ukraine lost three fighters in one day—one outranged in the air, two caught on the ground. The Gripen fixes both
A Russian missile downed one MiG from beyond the range it could shoot back; drones caught the other two parked. The Swedish jet that arrives next year is built against exactly these losses.
Russians keep raising “Potemkin flags” in Lyman. They’re no closer to capturing it.
Scattered reports of Russian flags flying over Lyman don't indicate new Russian positions in the front-line city. Lyman holds.
Russia is bolting World War II-style bridges onto armored tractors. They’re slow—and Ukraine’s drones are fast
Every bridge over the Vovcha is gone, so Russian crews drive improvised spans into the river and bail out—leaving the vehicles behind as makeshift bridges. The drones find them anyway.
After eight months, Kostiantynivka is falling. Why some Ukrainian commanders would rather fight the open fields behind it
Russia's first strategic win of the year is a ruined city—and Ukraine's drone-centric defense may not miss it the way it once would have.
For three years, Russia glide-bombed Ukraine in escorted pairs. Now Ukraine is glide-bombing Russia the same way.
High-flying escorts are protecting Ukraine's glide bombers from Russian jets. It's a familiar tactic.