Ukrainian soldiers have built a drone that carries a combat ground robot into battle and drops it where needed, a trick the US has pursued but never fielded. The Alter Ego battalion of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade has paired a bomber drone with a purpose-built robot, the Desantnyk, and tookContinue Reading
Russia is scouting Kyiv and the surrounding region for its next targets, from power substations and railways to hypermarkets and airports. Nikolaievsky Vaniok, a major Ukrainian monitoring channel, says Russian aerial reconnaissance has been mapping specific sites across the capital and Kyiv Oblast, and a national-security official warns that aContinue Reading
A year ago, 12 Ukrainian brigades could order their own weapons off a state marketplace. Now, more than 500 units can. DOT-Chain Defense, which lets frontline units order necessary supplies using state funds or bonuses with just a few clicks, has scaled across most of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, the DefenseContinue Reading
The EU locked in its sanctions on Russia for an unprecedented three years this week, and paid for it by letting two of the country’s richest men off the list. Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman were delisted at the insistence of Slovakia, France, and Luxembourg, DW reported. France pushed toContinue Reading
A Ukrainian fund is investing in a Danish defense startup, a reversal for a country far better known for taking in foreign capital than for sending it abroad. Resist.UA is backing BlueShadow, a maritime security firm run by a former US Navy submarine commander but largely engineered in Ukraine, toContinue Reading
An unknown drone has flown right up to the US missile-defense base in northern Poland, and how the military responded has raised questions about how well the site is protected from the air. Rather than shoot the drone down near Redzikowo, a cornerstone of NATO’s missile shield, the unit followedContinue Reading
Russia wants to build 14,000 of a new cruise missile next year, enough to fire them at Ukrainian cities by the thousand. The weapon, the Dan-T, is a cheap air-launched jet missile that flies hundreds of kilometers on its own, RBC-Ukraine reported. The danger is volume, not finesse. Russia aimsContinue Reading
Foreign defense suppliers owe Ukraine approximately $10.58 billion, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance. Of this amount, approximately $1.70 billion represents overdue receivables or funds that the Ministry of Defense has already paid to suppliers but for which the corresponding goods or services were either delivered late or not deliveredContinue Reading
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