By elevating interceptor drones with aerostats, Ukraine gains a strategic edge—detecting and engaging Russian Shaheds earlier than ground-based systems allow.
RAND experts report that Ukraine’s integration of commercial tech, from drones to AI systems, offers the Pentagon valuable lessons in defense procurement.
A thin glass thread trailing behind new Russian drones has neutralized billions in electronic warfare defenses. Now, Ukrainian forces are scrambling to devise new air defense strategies.
Ukraine is turning to an unlikely solution - cotton cultivation - to combat a global gunpowder shortage. With Western allies struggling to meet artillery needs, experimental fields in Odesa Oblast aim to produce nitrocellulose, a key gunpowder component. Russia, meanwhile, faces no such ammunition constraints.
Ukraine can only win if it has a technological edge, Maria Berlinska realized in 2015. Now, the Dignitas Fund trains thousands in drone warfare, making flying robots, not foot soldiers, the new face of combat.
The ability of Ukraine to quickly adapt to the challenges of modern warfare has raised questions about the US Army and its capability to do so as well.
With no formal training and limited resources, Ukraine's innovative drone operators are clearing the mined river, their DIY tactics becoming the linchpin in the battle for the Dnipro
The facility, located at Cawdor Barracks in Pembrokeshire, will support the UK's efforts to monitor and protect its space assets as part of a collaborative Aukus defense project with the US and Australia.