Ukraines
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…
The US and its allies in the Middle East are now facing a drone threat similar to what Ukraine has been fighting, but geography limits how closely they can replicate Ukraine’s defenses. Loading audio narration… Amid the war with the US and Israel, Iran has launched Shahed drones and missiles…
