Most drone interceptors ram or explode. This Ukrainian one just throws a net—six shots to a module
The Mangal launcher carries two cameras, picks out drones on its own, and mounts on a vehicle or a fixed post.
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A Ukrainian firm now rents out drone jammers by the day—but the deposit is the device’s full price
The daily fee comes off a deposit worth the whole device—rent long enough and the jammer becomes yours.
A former US nuclear-sub commander, a Ukrainian fund, and a plan to shield Odesa with drone swarms
Ukraine can't fully export its weapons yet — but its battle-tested tech is so in demand that two Ukrainian players just went to Denmark.
Foreign volunteers retrain as drone operators as Ukraine’s battlefield changes
Some of the Western volunteers who came to Ukraine to fight on the ground are now learning to operate FPV drones as unmanned systems take on a growing role in combat.
Russian drone killed five people on a scheduled minibus in southeastern Ukraine
The vehicle was running an intercity route through a district that sits across the river from Russian-held ground when the strike caught it.
“Its task is not cargo. Its task is people”: After Russian FPV drone hit their house, K-2 brigade sent ground robot to carry casualties out
A Ukrainian ground robot that usually hauls ammunition and supplies to the front carried a different load out…
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.
From HQ to the zero line: Ukraine’s Hrafit system answers one important question on an ordinary phone in a trench and on the road
Built by military programmers, Hrafit fuses radio-intelligence and surveillance into one picture.
Russia straps two small attack drones to wings of its long-range Gerans and releases them deep inside Ukraine. It rarely works, Flash says
An FPV drone drop was recently recorded in Kyiv Oblast, but there is no confirmation yet that it was carried out using a Gerbera.
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.
Ukrainian ground-robot maker has moved into air: Ratel’s first strike drone flies 30 kilometers on Starlink link
The Ratel K1 carries two kilograms, the maker says.
Ukrainian robot commander calls ground robots “Persian elephants.” What army really needs are “Arabian steeds”, he says
A "Khartia" robot commander says FPV drones and mines have collapsed the machines' lifespan.
Glide bomb then infiltrate. This is Russia’s new way of war.
Russia's old tactics involved artillery and tanks. After four years of fighting, it's all about glide bombs and infiltrators.
One tracked tank repairs, one marked artillery, one aimed bombs at civilians—all three got 15 years
Ukraine says two of the men came to Russian intelligence's notice through their own comments in chat groups, and the third through a relative working for Moscow's domestic security service.
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.
Russia’s thermobaric launchers used to just drive up and fire. Now they move one at a time, in steel boxes built to stop Ukrainian drones
Ukraine has knocked out at least 36 of them. Twenty-seven burned outright.
Ukrainian top volunteer from outgoing minister’s own team, whose drones downed 12,954 Russian targets, is offering to help his successor
Serhii Sternenko, the activist whose charity has supplied hundreds of thousands of FPV drones, congratulated new Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara with his new position.
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 has thousands of tanks it can’t risk. One drone shield decides whether they roll
Russia has finally fielded a tank defense that can shoot down Ukrainian FPV drones. The problem is that Ukrainian crews can send more drones than the Arena-M can stop—and the first tanks carrying it have burned anyway.
Ukraine’s ground robots ran nearly 17,000 missions in June. Every one depended on holding signal, problem this new antenna targets
A Ukrainian company has built a tiny antenna to solve one of the drone war's hardest problems: staying…