Cheap drones are shredding NATO armor. France just borrowed Russia’s solution
Four years after "cope cages" became a punchline, a French VBCI is wearing their evolved descendant.
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Ukrainian brigades detail Starlink crackdown: Russian terminals “became just bricks,” assaults disrupted
Russians forced to look for imperfect backup plans, which should slow down operations
How Starlink made Russia’s drones deadlier—and harder to jam
Improved reliability and resistance to jamming make Starlink-equipped drones deadlier and a priority for Kyiv to shut down
Can Starlink block Russian drones? Yes — but the devil’s in the details
4G modems and stolen SIMs are the gap nobody's closing
Ukraine keeps droning Russia’s “penguins”—same unit, same mistake, six days straight
Heat-trapping thermal ponchos can help soldiers hide from heat-sensing thermal drones. But only in the right conditions.
Russia just blew up a fake F-16. The drone flew 200km to do it.
A Rubicon drone flew 200km for this. Ukraine's decoy fleet is just getting started.
France may give Ukraine all 26 Mirage 2000s—none have bombed Russians yet
Ukraine is getting more Mirage 2000s. Will it use the fighters offensively instead of defensively?
Ukraine wrecked Russian bombers with $2,000 drones. US F-35s have the same blind spot
Drone defense absent at key US bases, including where 75% of world's F-35 pilots train
A Russian soldier dressed as a penguin was doing a pretty good job avoiding thermal drones
Desperate to hide from heat-sensing drones, Russian troops are wearing some pretty silly thermal camouflage. But silly isn't the same as ineffective.
Ukraine will build 7 million drones in 2026—and it still won’t be enough
Manufacturing volume has roughly doubled every year since 2023
Is the Flamingo missile a real weapon, or just marketing?
There are worrying signs that Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missile is mostly hype.
The drone hunting Ukraine’s Patriots uses Starlink to dodge jamming
BM-35 drones are precision weapons mounting Starlink and at least 41 foreign components
Russia’s tanks can finally shoot through their drone armor. Ukraine noticed.
The best add-on anti-drone armor prevents a tank's gun from rotating. Russia and Ukraine are both working on solutions.
French automaker Renault is going to make drones for Ukraine
Partnership with defense firm led by French defense ministry
French army tests Ukrainian innovations — fiber-optic drones, 3D-printed mines, robot vehicles
Tech developed with an eye on Ukraine's battlefields
SBU says it tore $4 billion hole in Russia’s air defenses in 2025
Destruction provides "safe passage" to Ukraine's deep strike weapons
Stealthy, hydrogen-powered recon drones enter military service
Less noise and heat, higher altitude, at the expense of engineering challenges
A weapon to surpass fiber optic drones needs more time in the oven
Tests appear promising, but is it ready for primetime?
Check out this super rare Russian T-64 turtle tank
The Russians need turtle tanks. They don't need them badly enough to make them out of Ukrainian T-64s.
Ukraine’s jam-proof drones have one weakness: icy weather
High tech is not immune to mankind's oldest enemy