After 21 Ukrainian Drone Attacks, Russia Extends Fuel Ban Amid 20-Year Refining Low
Russia has extended restrictions on producer exports of diesel, marine fuel and gas oil through September 30 after 21 reported…
Drones & Unmanned Systems
Russian Jet-Powered Geran Drones Keep Kyiv Under Alerts for Nearly 15 Hours
Speed changes more than the odds of interception. With less time to detect, classify and engage an incoming aircraft, a…
Ukrainian Adviser Says Interceptors Trail Reported 600-Kilometer-an-Hour Geran-5, Leaving Costlier Defenses
Ukraine’s effort to build an inexpensive defense against fast attack drones has run into a basic constraint: the interceptor must…
Ukraine Tests Four Interceptors but Lacks Mass-Produced Answer to Faster Drones
Ukraine has field-tested four prospective interceptors for Russia’s faster, jet-powered Shahed-type drones, but it has not confirmed that any candidate…
Rainmaker Says Alaska Drones Triggered 19 Million Gallons of Precipitation
Rainmaker says its cloud-seeding drones caused approximately 19 million gallons of precipitation during a three-hour operation on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula….
Army’s $46 Million Chaparral Contract Shifts Focus to Field-Ready Autonomy
Elroy Air’s Chaparral cargo drone is moving beyond the basic question of whether an autonomous vertical-takeoff aircraft can transport a…
Ukrainian Drone Strike Leaves All Major Lukoil Refineries in Russia Offline
A Ukrainian drone strike has halted crude processing at Lukoil’s Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, leaving all of…
Ukrainian Drone Attacks Push Russia to Record Seaborne Gasoline Imports
Russia is a major crude-oil exporter, but repeated Ukrainian drone attacks have disrupted its refineries enough to make the country…
Ukraine Says Four-Day Russian Barrage Nears 1,500 Drones, Pressuring Interceptor Production
Nearly 1,500 drones in four days is the figure now defining Ukraine’s interceptor-production challenge. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia launched…
U.S. Northern Command Says 350-Plus Installations Have Uneven Drone Defenses
More than 350 U.S. military installations face the same broad requirement protection from potentially hostile drones but they do not…
U.S. Northern Command Laser Destroys Three Border Drones; Cartel Link Unconfirmed
U.S. Northern Command says an Army high-energy laser destroyed three drones along the southern border, marking the system’s first use…
U.S. Military Says Army Laser Downed Three Cartel-Linked Drones at Border
U.S. troops used a vehicle-mounted Army laser to defeat three drones near the southern border on August 25, marking the…
Ukraine Opens Avengers AI Labs to UK; 100,000-Feed Claim Remains Unaudited
About 100,000 drone video feeds per month could become training and test material for British military artificial-intelligence projects under a…
Japan Selects Terra B1, Company Claims Sole Pass and September Deliveries
Japan is moving the Terra B1 interceptor drone toward production before disclosing how much it will cost, how many it…
Russia’s NORSI Refinery Stops Crude Processing After Reported Ukrainian Drone Strike, Restart Unknown
Fifteen million metric tons of annual crude-processing capacity is now offline at Russia’s NORSI refinery, with no announced date for…
Ukrainian Drone Strikes Reportedly Leave 74% of Lukoil’s Perm Refininery Capacity Offline
Seventy-four percent is the combined share of stated refining capacity represented by two primary crude-processing units reportedly offline at Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez…
Army Awards Neros $500 Million Drone Ceiling, Not Guaranteed Spending
A three-year-old Southern California startup now holds a U.S. Army contract framework with a ceiling of $500 million for Archer…
Ukraine Replaces Independence Day Parade With Robots for Dangerous Military Jobs
Instead of columns of troops, tanks and missile systems, Ukraine filled its 2026 Independence Day display with machines intended for…