Elroy Air Demonstrates Chaparral Cargo Handling Without Runways or Endpoint Crews
The defining mechanism in Elroy Air’s Chaparral is not simply autonomous flight. It is the aircraft’s ability to collect, secure,…
Drones & Unmanned Systems
Two Moscow Airports Record 372 Flight Disruptions Amid Ukraine Drone Pressure
372 flights 43 cancellations and 329 delays measure the immediate loss of schedule certainty at two of Moscow’s major civilian…
Russia’s Jet-Powered Drones Over Kyiv Give Ukraine Less Time to Intercept
Russia is increasingly using jet-powered drones in strikes on Kyiv, adding faster incoming weapons to an air-defense problem previously dominated…
DJI-Led Drone Market Faces 25% and 100% U.S. Tariffs
A drone’s weight and installed equipment now determine whether it enters the United States under a 25% tariff or the…
Britain Launches £5 Million Project PANOPTES Against Drone Swarms
Project PANOPTES is built around a difficult trade: lasers may offer repeated engagements against low-cost drones without rapidly consuming missiles,…
Ukrainian Drone Alerts Halt Russian Airport Flights Without Direct Strikes
A drone does not have to approach an airport for commercial flights there to stop. Under Russia’s Kovyor air-defense procedure,…
Ukraine Accelerates Interceptor Production as Jet-Powered Shahed Drones Get Harder to Stop
Ukraine has interceptor-drone prototypes, but faster jet-powered Shahed attacks are increasing the pressure to turn those prototypes into effective and…
Army Awards AeroVironment $464.8 Million for Dozens of Vehicle-Mounted Drone-Defense Lasers
The U.S. Army has awarded AeroVironment $464.8 million to produce dozens of vehicle-mounted LOCUST X3 lasers intended to destroy drones…
Ukraine Accelerates Interceptor Drones After Reporting 2,800 Jet-Powered Drones in August
Ukraine has interceptor-drone prototypes, but it does not yet have confirmed production at the scale demanded by a rapidly expanding…
Ukrainian Drone Disruption Precedes Crimea’s Four-Hour Daily Fuel Sales Limit
Four hours now define civilian access to gasoline and diesel in Crimea. Authorities have restricted retail sales to 8:00-10:00 a.m….
Ukraine Prioritizes Four Interceptors for Jet-Powered Shaheds, but Scale Is Unclear
Ukraine says it has four potential interceptor-drone designs for faster, jet-powered Shahed-type aircraft, but the program remains caught between a…
Russian Shahed Drone Attack Reportedly Cut Power to 300,000 in Mykolaiv
More than 300,000 electricity customers reportedly lost power in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region after a large Russian attack using Shahed-type drones…
After 21 Ukrainian Drone Strikes, Russian Refining Hits Reported 20-Year Low
About 3.8 million barrels a day: That is the estimated average volume of oil processed by Russian refineries in August…
Ukrainian Drone Strike Halts Russia’s Fourth-Largest Refinery in Kstovo, With Restart Unknown
A Ukrainian drone strike has stopped crude processing at LUKOIL-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez in Kstovo, Russia’s fourth-largest refinery by capacity. Three industry sources…
Ukrainian Drone Strikes Push Russia to Import Gasoline and Refine Abroad
Russia’s strength as a major crude-oil producer is colliding with a different industrial reality: crude in the ground does not…
Fifth Ukraine Drone Shutdown at Russia’s NORSI Refinery Leaves Lukoil Offline
Five shutdowns in less than five months have turned Lukoil’s NORSI refinery into a measure of cumulative industrial disruption. Reuters…
Jaunt Chooses Passive-Cooled Drone Batteries to Reduce Cooling Mass and Complexity
Removing pumps, coolant lines and other liquid-cooling hardware can simplify an aircraft battery installation, but it also shifts more responsibility…
Army Told 173rd Airborne Brigade to Drop Drone Focus; Lawmakers Demand Answers
The U.S. Army has directed a battalion in the Europe-based 173rd Airborne Brigade to stop specializing in drone warfare and…