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.
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Russia says it downed Ukraine’s first ballistic missile—a weapon Kyiv has never announced
Kyiv stayed silent. Moscow's ministry did the announcing.
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.
Towards Clearer Skies? What Ukraine gets out of the most recent Ramstein meeting—and what it doesn’t
The $4 billion buys Patriot interceptors now — but Ukraine's home-grown Freya, five times cheaper, left Brussels with a partnership and no cash.
Ukraine’s $50,000 drone just did what only $500,000 munitions could
Ukrainian drone-maker Fire Point has tweaked its iconic FP-1 drone to travel three times as far as before.
Germany’s Diehl in talks to produce Ukraine’s Flamingo cruise missile on German soil
CEO Helmut Rauch announced a series of meetings with Ukrainian maker Fire Point in the coming weeks and called the company "optimistic and positive" about cooperation, says FT.
Ukraine’s drones got bigger warheads. A Russian corvette in the Baltic just found out.
The Fire Point FP-1 that struck Boikiy at Kronstadt on 3 June crossed 1,100 km to get there — and arrived with a heavier warhead than the model that started Ukraine's deep-strike campaign.
Ukraine showed the world its drone launcher. Russia found it four days later.
AI-targeted drones need training images to find their targets. Ukraine just gave Russia one.
Ukrainian drones used to burn one tanker. Now they can burn the whole train
One rocket-armed Fire Point drone could do eight times the damage of the version flying last month.
Russian air-defense crews are now the hunted as Ukraine bolts rocket pods to its long-range drones
Ukrainian dorne forces' operators of the 1st Separate Center hit a protected node near Myrnyi, occupied Crimea, and released thermal video of the attack.
The Freya air defense system could take down Russian ballistic missiles. Can Ukraine build it?
As the Iran war drains the world's Patriots, Ukraine needs to build its own long-range air defense. Freya could be just the thing.
Ukraine should not advertise its new ballistic missiles until factories can mass-produce them, ex-security officer says
"We're standing in the same line with the Russians" with their failed Armata tank, Ivan Stupak noted.
Russia tried to kill Ukraine’s most public Shahed analyst — with four superspeed jet-powered Shaheds
Now, 20% of Russian Shaheds are manually piloted.
Ukraine is developing its own unstoppable air-launched missile
Russia's Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile is extremely hard to intercept. That's why Ukraine wants its own version of the missile.
Ukraine may be using new weapon that disables infrastructure without explosions
In Iraq in 1990-1991, this technology was used by coalition forces and destroyed up to 85% of the country's energy system.
FP-7 tested, FP-9 at 800 km approaching trials: Fire Point reveals Ukraine’s ballistic missile roadmap
Chief designer Denys Shtilerman says both are priced at half what ATACMS costs and built to fire in numbers large enough that interception doesn't decide the outcome.
“Air defense zoo”: Ukraine’s drones took out Russian Pantsir, Tor, Buk, and S-300V in one night over occupied south
Two separate units of Ukraine's drone forces struck Russian air defense assets across occupied Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts overnight on 6 March, using domestic FP-2 drones.
Everyone doubted Ukraine’s Flamingo missile. It just blew a hole in a major Russian missile factory
The Flamingo cruise missile was supposed to intensify Ukraine's deep strikes on Russian industry. Months late, it may finally be happening.
Is the Flamingo missile a real weapon, or just marketing?
There are worrying signs that Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missile is mostly hype.