No NATO army has fought modern war: Ukrainian officers set their battlefield practice against NATO doctrine and exposed where its assumptions no longer fit
Ukrainian and NATO officers spent three weeks together in Poland.
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Ukraine’s FLYCAT strike drone is built to fly without satellite signals. Its bigger new sibling is designed to reach 200 km behind the front
Everything on the combat-proven FLYCAT but the engines is made in Ukraine, and Octava Defence says the new long-range version can stay airborne for more than two and a half hours.
Russia is working to modernize its weapons on every front. This month, its drones are expected to carry 20-element anti-jam antennas to outpace Ukraine’s jamming
Russia's new drones and cruise weapons navigate rather than fly, so Ukraine has to jam GPS, not the operator link.
From Russian classrooms to Iran’s defense industry: how Moscow trains Iranian specialists
Almost 10,000 Iranians studied at Russian universities in 2025, 42% more than two years earlier, by the Russian science ministry's count, with medicine still the most popular field.
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.
Russia is switching its cheap Molniya strike drones to digital video. When the change is complete, Ukraine’s analog detectors go blind, Flash warns
Ukrainian interceptors must learn to catch the new signals now.
20% to 70%: Ukraine’s National Guard rewired its drone war around cables
Fiber-optic drones trail a cable with no signal to jam—and now account for 70% of the drones the National Guard uses, up from about a fifth.
Ukrainian company builds single device that detects FPV drone, reads its video feed, and jams it
Brama has passed lab and combat testing and is now going through codification.
Norway’s Air Force put its first anti-drone system into service at the fighter base—and wants its own drones doing the same job
The system can detect a drone, identify it, and shoot it down—capability the base did not have when lights appeared over it last autumn.
Russia’s attack drones now jam the cheap interceptors sent to kill them
The jammer reads the interceptor's own video frequency, then floods it—blinding the operator who steers the drone.
Ukraine mapped Russia’s Su-35 down to individual control units—and found 22 firms nobody has sanctioned
The names cover engines, guidance, jamming gear, and the air-to-air missiles the aircraft fires.
Italy’s largest arms maker had no plans for a Ukraine factory—a year later, it has a Kyiv subsidiary
The Kyiv-based R&D unit will research communications, navigation, and electronic and optical technologies for Ukraine's defense sector.
160 grams, 118-km link, and jam-resistance by frequency-hopping: Ukraine’s answer to drone war’s connectivity problem
Ukraine's Rise Technologies unveiled Nakande, a drone communication system that hops across frequencies to keep its link under jamming.
No radio signal, no way to jam it: Ukraine’s top-ranked strike drone can wait 48 hours for its target
Ukraine's manufacturers ranked their most effective fiber-optic strike drones in July, with Beshket, Deadliner Q1, and Vyriy Opto 10 taking the top three.
1.2 million weapons in a year: Inside Ukraine’s Amazon-for-arms that ships to the frontline in 24 hours
Frontline units now pick from 1,181 products by 300 Ukrainian makers—and the fastest arrive within 24 hours.
Russia’s most-used map app is erasing a Baltic missile site that Western maps still show
The concealment appears only on Yandex, leaving Google, Apple, and Microsoft to reveal exactly what Moscow wanted buried.
Armor can barely reach Ukraine’s front now—so robots drive and soldiers walk
Ukraine's frontline logistics are under strain from drone pressure, forcing soldiers to walk while ground robots take over the most dangerous runs.
Third one down: Ukraine keeps destroying Russia’s $1.8 million Starlink jammers
Satellite imagery places the latest confirmed hit at an FSB border base in Gelendzhik on Russia’s Black Sea coast.
How Russia built a jam-proof drone force—and the Chinese supply chain that could still break it
First fiber optics, then mesh modems. Both came from China, and the modems are a catalogue item.
Russia parked a 5,000-kilometer jamming station in Crimea—Ukraine parked a drone on top of it
The hit came near Cape Fiolent overnight, another Russian high-value asset lost on a peninsula Ukraine keeps working to cut off.