Drones now cause about 96% of Russia’s battlefield losses. Ukraine’s drone force says it has hit more than 100,000 Russian troops this year alone
That is more than 150,000 since the Unmanned Systems Forces was created.
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Ukraine ordered 54% more FPV attack drones this year than in all of 2025, and deliveries jumped almost fourfold
Contracting across all drone types is up about 5.5 times in recent months compared with a year earlier.
Taliban and North Korea rubbed shoulders at Russia’s war games—one fuels Moscow’s war, the other needs its help
Two isolated governments in Russia's orbit turned up at the same drills—though only Kabul has said they met.
Germany accuses Russia of a drone bomb attempt at Leipzig. Now its eight biggest airports get drone detection
The air traffic controller's system spots drones in approach and departure paths and alerts the police, who remain responsible for stopping them.
Ukraine says its strikes have knocked out more than 51% of Russia’s oil refining capacity
Production and procurement of Ukraine's long-range strike drones tripled this year, and the Defense Ministry plans to scale them further.
Europe wants drones that actually work in war, so Ukrainian maker is moving in to build them in Belgium and Luxembourg
TAF Industries and Luxembourg's LUXUAV signed a memorandum to develop and field drones.
Ukraine solves riddle of metal “whiskers” on new Russia’s drones. They aren’t clever sensor
The metal prongs appearing on Russian strike drones are a mechanical contact detonator.
Russia adds new weapon to its jet-powered drones, even more dangerous: 40-kilogram charge made to sever high-voltage pylons and iron bridges
Russia opens a massed assault on the grid.
Russian drone explodes in Moldova, day after its opposition moves to suspend its pro-EU president. Analyst says that’s no coincidence
A Russian drone exploded in Moldova on 30 September, detonating near the mast of a civilian mobile operator,…
Russian jet-powered drone hits near Yahodyn, just 1.5 km from Poland, as Warsaw changes air defense rules
Poland plans to allow decisions to engage aerial targets based on radar data.
Ukraine destroys record 76 Russian air-defense systems this month, losses analyst says Russia “will never be able to restore”
The 76 systems destroyed this month beat a record from July 2023.
Year ago, only 12 Ukrainian brigades could order weapons online. Now, 500 units participate in revolutionary program that has delivered 1.3 million drones to front
DOT-Chain Defense lets frontline units order their own drones and gear.
Ukraine’s new drone ferries FPV drones deep behind Russian lines and releases them there. It costs about $9,900 and does three other jobs too
The KARA can drop bombs, relay signals, ferry FPV drones to the front, or strike, and it is on sale on Ukraine's state marketplace.
Ukraine shoots down Russian drones by hundred thousand: 350,000 this year, filmed and verified hit by hit in DELTA
The tally dwarfs what NATO manages against a handful of Russian drones.
Ukraine is saving Donetsk Oblast with world’s first-of-its-kind operation: Vivaldi counteroffensive drops robots directly from heavy bombers 10 kilometers behind Russian lines
Heavy drones delivered the robots more than 10 kilometers into the Russian rear during Operation Vivaldi near Lyman.
At camp Norway built in Polish forest, NATO trainers admit Ukraine’s army now moves faster than their own
Ukraine's wartime tempo outpaces NATO armies, whose slow procurement Western trainers in Poland say Ukraine's experience is exposing.
A drone came down beside a Bundeswehr air base, weeks after Berlin blamed Moscow for the Leipzig airport attack
The drone's owner and origin are still unknown, and investigators are collecting further parts before saying anything about how it came down.
In April, 24 Ukrainian companies ran their own air defense. By mid-September, 81 do — about one new firm per day
They've already downed 20-plus Russian drones.
For first time, Ukraine’s drone makers and Europe’s arms firms have joined one body: EU-Ukraine Drone Alliance
Eighteen companies aim to build drones and counter-drone systems together, folding Ukraine's combat-tested industry into Europe's.
Ai-Petri’s maker began building EW gear after Russia took Crimea in 2014. It’s now shown system, named for peninsula’s highest peak, at Polish expo
It is already deployed in some 400 units along the front.