Ukraines
Ukraine’s small drone teams keep beating NATO units in exercises, exposing an unsurprising experience gap.NATO is bringing Ukrainian units into exercises to help allied troops prepare for modern drone warfare. In those drills, Ukrainian teams have repeatedly beaten the allied forces they faced. A Ukrainian defense official and NATO officials…
In a future war, an enemy could attempt to target US bases with cyber attacks and drone strikes to cripple American forces before the fighting even really begins.It’s a challenge that the US Army recently assessed during a tabletop exercise, drawing inspiration from real-world action, including Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb attack…
The Russian threat is real, and it’s time for European defense companies to start copying Ukraine and break up production across multiple sites, a Ukrainian official and multiple defense firms told Business Insider.Russia’s drone and missile attacks are so widespread that weapons companies working in Ukraine typically can’t afford to…
To Spring, some of the new drones blunting Russia’s momentum first arrived so glitchy they were practically cursed.”In every sortie, everything that could go wrong went wrong,” the drone pilot, with the Ukrainian National Guard’s Typhoon unit, told Business Insider of the first system she tested in early 2025.The fixed-wing…
New satellite imagery captures an oil terminal burning and fire crews tending to a damaged warship near St. Petersburg after Ukrainian forces struck the city during the opening day of Russia’s Davos.The Ukrainian military said Wednesday that it carried out strikes on the St. Petersburg oil terminal, the nearby Kronstadt…
Ukraine is using a new kind of drone to turn areas that Russian forces once considered safe into a new “kill zone,” disrupting supplies, threatening its command posts, and making Moscow’s war harder to sustain.Drones have been central to Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion. Short-range first-person-view (FPV) drones surveil and…
Ukrainian troops have been using their ground drones to evacuate elderly civilians stuck near the front lines, as the remote-controlled “iron soldiers” continue to saturate the battlefield.The Kraken uncrewed ground vehicle (UGV) company of the Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps said last Wednesday that it had evacuated four older adults from…
Ukrainian pilots in the early stages of fighter jet training are learning to fly without full GPS navigation — a combat skill taking on greater urgency as they prepare for heavy Russian electronic warfare on the battlefield. Loading audio narration… The pilots are part of a training pipeline for the…
