The US is preparing to sell Ukraine something unusual: American-made missiles for its Soviet S-300 air-defense systems. The missiles, labeled “S-300 Clone” in the paperwork, are part of a $2.68 billion package that the State Department approved on 18 September, financed by European partners and unused US military aid, DefenseContinue Reading
Ukraine’s battle-tested drone makers did not win a single top slot in the Pentagon’s latest drone contest. But some Ukrainian technology won anyway, competing quietly under the names of Western partners, The Defender Media reports. The Pentagon’s $1.1 billion Drone Dominance program does not allow direct purchases from Ukrainian firms,Continue Reading
Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, also known as HUR, has given Japan’s parliament speaker a rare, close look at a North Korean weapon: the components of a ballistic missile Russia fired at Ukraine. Ukrainian officers have shown the parts to Eisuke Mori, speaker of Japan’s House of Representatives, during his delegation’s visitContinue Reading
Ukrainian engineers near the front rewrite their drones’ software every couple of days. A NATO army needs about six months to push the same update. That gap in speed is the central challenge for the Western trainers working with Ukrainian troops in Poland, who say Ukraine’s wartime tempo is exposingContinue Reading
A Ukrainian-made radio repeater survived 10 Russian drone and bomb strikes and a building collapse, and kept transmitting from under the rubble. The HIMERA B1, used by border guards on a telecom tower in Kharkiv Oblast, held its communications link through FPV drones and guided bombs, the manufacturer said. OnContinue Reading
Ukraine’s battlefield-tested drone makers and Europe’s arms firms have sat down together for the first time to build drones and the systems to shoot drones down as a single industry. Eighteen companies, nine Ukrainian and nine European, held the opening meeting of the EU-Ukraine Drone Alliance in Brussels, Defender MediaContinue Reading
Russia is working methodically to modernize its attack drones on every possible front. This month, its drones are expected to carry 20-element anti-jam antennas in place of the 16-element ones, harder for Ukrainian electronic warfare to defeat, Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s defense-technology adviser, said. Russia’s knack for scalingContinue Reading
Russia is using AI-generated women to lure Ukrainian soldiers to their deaths. The fabricated profiles are one of three versions of a “honey trap” scheme Russia has escalated this year, and Ukraine’s military counterintelligence has foiled more than 50 such attempts in 2026, said Artem Dekhtiarenko, spokesperson for the SecurityContinue Reading
For the first time, two unmanned boats have fought a battle at sea, and the Ukrainian one sank its Russian rival. The Ukrainian Defense Intelligence has spotted a Russian drone in the Black Sea, and a Sargan-3000 naval drone armed with a remote-controlled machine-gun turret opened fire and destroyed it,Continue Reading
In the occupied town of Oleshky in Kherson Oblast, people are foraging for grass and picking through bombed-out basements for anything to eat, Natalia Soboleva, an Odesa volunteer who tracks the town, says, Espreso reports. The city turned 942 years old this week and marked the day, as it hasContinue Reading
A German environmental group is going to court to stop Russia’s state nuclear corporation from helping run a nuclear-fuel plant on German soil. BUND Niedersachsen has sued the state of Lower Saxony to overturn a July permit allowing the Lingen plant to produce Russian-designed fuel under a license from Rosatom,Continue Reading
The Ukrainian soldiers simultaneously perform defensive, logistical, and humanitarian functions. Ukraine’s Third Army Corps is launching a separate AB3.HUMANITARIAN initiative to evacuate civilians from frontline settlements. This means saving families, elderly people, children, people with disabilities, from Russian attacks, and those who often have no way to leave on theirContinue Reading
Ukraine’s former top general, now its ambassador to Britain, says Russia’s jet-powered Geran drone is a glimpse of where war is heading, where high technology keeps getting cheaper. Valerii Zaluzhnyi told a London defense-technology showcase that an expensive Cold War missile had evolved into a cheap weapon that can beContinue Reading