Ukraine’s plan to stop Russia’s drones? Train civilians to fly their own.
Without enough soldiers to defend cities, local residents must take the drones into their own hands
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Co-built and tested with Ukraine, Shahed-like American drone readies for mass production
A high-tech analogue of Russia’s Shahed strike drone is ready for mass-production in the US after completing combat…
Ukraine’s Navy doesn’t exist—except it kind of does, and it’s brilliant
At 2 am, they rip their mooring rope racing to engage 17 Shaheds.
Ukraine’s 59-kill cargo plane proves low-tech can beat high-tech
Ukraine is launching every possible light plane to defend against swarms of Russian Shahed drones. The latest is an An-28 transport.
“Putin is laughing at West”: Ukraine traces 102,000 foreign components in Russian weapons after biggest strike of war on Lviv
Zelenskyy revealed that Russia’s 5 October attack relied on thousands of imported electronics for missiles and drones, demonstrating how international supply chains are exploited for war.
Atesh partisans hit deep in Russia — railway nearly 1,000 km from Ukraine burns
Drones meant for Ukrainian cities lie stranded on scorched tracks.
Russia uses new jet-powered Shahed drones in Kyiv attack, killing 18 people
Russian forces deployed rocket-propelled Shahed drones in the Kyiv assault, reaching 300-500 km/h and proving harder to intercept than standard models.
Ukraine must build “anti-Rubicon” hunter units to target elite Russian drone crews, says expert
Mariia Berlinska says offensive counter-strategy is urgently needed against 5,000-strong force.
Military drone explodes in Polish cornfield just 40km from Warsaw — all eyes on Russia
Poland’s army initially said no airspace was violated, but prosecutors later confirmed the wreckage came from a Russian drone.
Black clouds of smoke rise over Tatarstan as Ukrainian 75-kg warhead drones decimate Shahed storage 1,300 km inside Russia
Operation reportedly destroys attack drones and foreign components at a facility supplying terror attacks.
Russia’s 137× drone surge wasn’t magic—it was Chinese engines labeled “fridges”
Ukraine faced just 40 drone attacks monthly in 2022. Now it's over 5,000—using Cold War engines China ships as "refrigerators."
Russia once again finds way to evade Ukraine’s smartest defenses against its deadliest drones
Russia has adapted again, forcing defenders into a new phase of drone warfare.
Ukraine to get 5 Patriots and 220,000 Gepard shells. Is that enough to stop Russian drone swarms?
Ukraine’s interceptors are scarce and expensive. Russia’s drones are cheap and relentless.
Russia shows off giant Shahed factory and US trucks used to launch drone strikes on Ukraine
Kremlin footage shows rows of Shahed drones in production and American pickups launching them toward Ukraine, as Moscow ramps up long-range attacks.
Ukraine just solved the hardest math problem in modern air defense – with a 1970s German gun
The German-made Gepard gun vehicle is one of Ukraine’s best defenses against swarms of Russian Shahed drones.
Russia’s drones now target civilians with napalm firebombs that burn through sand and cannot be extinguished
Modified drones are designed for maximum civilian terror and violate all rules of urban warfare, says a Ukrainian military expert.
Can Ukraine’s $ 1,000 drones really beat Russia’s $ 35,000 Shaheds?
The missiles are too expensive. The interceptors are unproven. But Ukraine is betting on the math of survival.
Shahed drones now dive like missiles—and Ukraine can’t shoot fast enough
The same mobile teams that hunted Shaheds last year can barely touch them now.
Ukraine may receive state-of-art NATO technologies, capable of destroying Russian glide bombs and drone swarms
The glide or guided bombs have been one of the main weapons of war.
Defense Express: Russia’s new jet-powered Shahed drone hits Kyiv for the first time — 3X faster than earlier models
Russia’s Geran-3 — its jet-powered version of the Iranian Shahed drone — reaches speeds of up to 600 km/h.