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2026-07-04
Pole-31: what a portable 2 km GNSS dead zone means for drone navigation
NPO Kilowatt has unveiled Pole-31, an EW system claimed to jam GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou and Galileo within at least 2 km. The specs are the maker's own — but the trend they mark is real: drones are learning to fly without satellites.
- electronic-warfare
- gps-denied
- navigation
2026-06-25
The $2,300 attack drone: when unit price becomes the weapon
The US 'Drone Dominance' plan aims to drive one-way attack drones from $5,000 to $2,300 a unit and buy roughly 340,000 of them. The real story isn't the airframe — it's what cheap mass does to the cost of stopping it.
- military
- drones
- economics
2026-06-25
AUKUS goes underwater: drones leave the sky and the critical-infrastructure fight moves to the seabed
The UK, Australia and the US announced a joint underwater-drone programme, due by 2027, to protect undersea cables and pipelines. These aren't quadcopters — but it's the same autonomy logic, and for the Baltic Sea it lands directly.
- military
- underwater-drones
- aukus
2026-06-25
Beyond the radio horizon: what a satellite-controlled drone actually changes
Ukraine's Adis is not long-range — about a 20 km combat radius. The novelty is the control link: a satellite signal removes the radio horizon, so the operator can sit thousands of kilometres away. But "unlimited control range" comes with a bill — latency, bandwidth and dependence.
- military
- drones
- satellite-control
2026-06-25
Remote control at 2,000 km: the latency problem behind the record
Ukraine has codified Hornet Vision Ctrl — the first NATO-standard remote drone-control system, shown at 2,000 km. But for an interceptor the number that matters isn't distance, it's latency. The real proof: two Shaheds downed remotely from 500 km.
- military
- drones
- counter-drone
2026-05-17
The Rise of Autonomous Combat UAVs
Autonomous combat UAVs are no longer a distant idea. In 2026 they are moving into real military planning through collaborative combat aircraft, open autonomy architectures, and human-machine teaming in high-end air combat.
- military
- autonomy
- combat-uav
2026-05-16
Anti-Drone Systems and Electronic Warfare
Effective anti-drone defense is no longer one jammer or one interceptor. It is becoming a layered system that combines sensors, battle management, electronic warfare, and kinetic defeat.
- counter-uas
- electronic-warfare
- defense
2026-05-16
Drone Swarms and the Future of Autonomous Warfare
Drone swarms are not simply many drones flying together. The real shift is command-and-control, human-machine teaming, attritable mass, and the ability to coordinate dozens or hundreds of platforms under one operational intent.
- military
- autonomy
- swarms
2026-05-16
Military Drone Trends That Will Dominate 2026
Military drone trends in 2026 are no longer only about new aircraft. The dominant themes are scale, attritable mass, launched effects, counter-drone integration, faster procurement, and doctrine rewrites.
- military
- drones
- autonomy
2026-05-15
Fiber Optic Drones and Why They Cannot Be Jammed
Fiber optic drones are not invincible, but they break one of the most comfortable assumptions in counter-UAS: that cutting the RF link is enough. By 2025–2026, that assumption no longer holds.
- fiber-optic
- fpv
- ew
2026-05-15
How FPV Drones Changed Modern Warfare
FPV drones are no longer a cheap improvisation. They changed strike economics, ISR workflows, electronic warfare, and frontline tactics in 2025–2026.
- fpv
- warfare
- military