FPV Kamikaze
Cheap, low-flying precision threat
A first-person-view drone flown via video goggles, usually carrying an improvised or small explosive payload. The fibre-optic variant is fully immune to electronic jamming.
Learn more in the Drone Academy →Key data
- Altitude
- 7 – 500 ft
- Speed
- 80–150 km/h
- Range
- 5–15 km (RF) / 40–50 km (fibre-optic)
- Cost
- $200 – $1,000
Relevance
- Proven against
- Vehicles, parked aircraft, in flight also helicopters
- Adaptation
- Fibre-optic guidance defeats all RF jamming
News archive 117
Analysed reports from the RU Mil Tracker about this system, newest first. Archive since 2026-07-17.
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Ukrainian maker PUF unveils Ban-One interceptor drone with a claimed peak speed of 370 km/h, marketed against Shahed-type drones
Ukrainian manufacturer PUF (Persha Universalna Firma) has launched Ban-One, a high-speed interceptor drone for countering UAVs, according to a piece in Militarnyi's 'special projects' section (a format that appears to present manufacturer material). Speed was the design priority: the drone engages targets at 190–345 km/h and reaches a peak of 370 km/h. Its…
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Ukraine's CODE 9.2 regiment flies two wounded soldiers out of the grey zone with SkyFall's StarGate drone, one leg nearly 30 km each way under GPS jamming
Ukraine's 475th Separate Assault Regiment (CODE 9.2) says it evacuated two wounded soldiers by air within a single week using the StarGate casualty-evacuation drone built by the Ukrainian company SkyFall. The casualties, Yevhen (call sign Izium, 25) and Artem (call sign Kolobok, 24), had severe limb injuries and were in the grey zone about 5 km from the Rus…
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FSB claims it foiled SBU-directed FPV drone attack on Moscow air defence site and power facility
According to the Russian state news agency TASS (26 October 2026), the FSB says it detained two men from the South Caucasus, born in 1991 and 1998, who were allegedly preparing FPV drone attacks on a "key component" of Moscow's air-defence system and on an electric power facility. The FSB says they acted for Ukraine's SBU. TASS does not name the men, their…
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«От снайперских пар до FPV-дуэлей — чемпионат ВС РФ прошёл в МВО» (Dva Mayora: 'From sniper pairs to FPV duels — Russian Armed Forces championship held in the Moscow Military District')
Milblogger channel Dva Mayora (Two Majors), reposting a post from the channel 'Kot v podsumke', reports that the Russian Armed Forces championship in army tactical shooting all-round competition has concluded in the Moscow region (Moscow Military District). Over five days more than 250 participants in 26 teams competed, drawn from all services and branches…
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«Скеля» проти «Рубікону» та «Судного дня»: історія помсти за «Діксона» (ArmyInform: ''Skelia' versus 'Rubicon' and 'Judgement Day': the story of revenge for 'Dikson'')
ArmyInform republishes a soldier's profile first posted by Ukraine's 223rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment. The soldier, callsign 'Skelia', is now a heavy bomber-drone operator on the Sumy axis. The article is mostly a personal story, but it includes one operational detail about Russian drone units. On 6 January 2026, while Ukrainian troops were moving group…
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«Старлинки Илона Маска на дронах типа "Баба Яга" ВСУ» (Dva Mayora: 'Elon Musk's Starlinks on Ukrainian "Baba Yaga"-type drones')
In a series of posts on 25 October, the Telegram channel Dva Mayora responded to Elon Musk's statement that Ukraine's military had used Starlink for offensive drone strikes and that this "loophole" was closed last week. The channel agrees with Musk that the Ukrainian front would collapse if Starlink were switched off, but calls his claim of ignorance a lie,…
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Massive Ukrainian drone attack on Belgorod hits MegaGRINN shopping centre; one killed, 10–14 injured per regional HQ
A large swarm of Ukrainian drones attacked the city of Belgorod overnight into 25 October 2026, the Kyiv Independent reports, citing local officials and social media footage. Locals reported via the Astrapress Telegram channel and eyewitness videos showed explosions, fires and air defence activity over the city. According to the Ukrainian monitoring channel…
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Ukraine carries out first known aerial casualty evacuation by heavy-lift drone: Heavy Shot Ayudag-6 extracts wounded soldier after 491 days in the grey zone near Kupiansk
On 4 October 2026 Ukrainian forces evacuated a wounded infantryman from the grey zone on the Kupiansk front by heavy drone. Ukrainska Pravda and Reuters (republished by Meduza) both call it the first known operation of its kind. The soldier is Kostiantyn "Magura" Vlasenko of the 2nd Mechanised Battalion, 30th Separate Mechanised Brigade. He had held a posit…
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««Ковер» над столицей: атаки воздушных шаров на аэропорты Москвы» (Rybar: ''Kover' over the capital: balloon attacks on Moscow's airports')
Rybar reports that on 23 October a Ukrainian attack on the Moscow region caused Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky airports to stop all arrivals and departures for several hours. Citing Moscow's mayor, it says 26 UAVs were shot down in the Moscow region since the night, and that according to preliminary information around fifty drones carried o…
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«Ми цей телефон одразу передали куди треба»: як українські бійці натрапили на дані російського командування (ArmyInform: 'We handed that phone straight to the right people': how Ukrainian soldiers came across data on Russian command)
ArmyInform publishes the account of a signals platoon commander (call sign 'Impuls') of the Ukrainian 32nd Mechanised Brigade who spent 40 days with three others on a position near Pokrovsk. According to his account, Russian assault groups used the dense morning fog (visibility 35–40 m) to close in; a group of six assaulted the position and withdrew after U…
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Ukraine's HUR unveils Filin, a new low-cost Russian ground-launched cruise missile with up to 1,200 km range, built with 35 US and 22 Chinese components and a Russian R500 turbojet
On 22 October 2026 Ukraine's military intelligence agency HUR published an interactive 3D model, an assembly breakdown and an electronic-component database of a new Russian cruise missile, the Filin ("eagle owl"), on its War&Sanctions portal. According to HUR, Russia began firing the missile at Ukraine in late summer 2026. It is developed by AO NPO Molniya,…
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Russia hits Kyiv with Iskander-M, S-400, Zircon and Oniks missiles and 210 drones, including cluster-armed Iskanders in the historic centre, hours after the Putin–Witkoff meeting; at least 9 killed across Ukraine
Russia launched a combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine from 18:00 on 21 October 2026 into the morning of 22 October, with Kyiv as the main target. According to Ukraine's Air Force, Russia fired Iskander-M ballistic missiles, S-400 missiles, Zircon and Oniks missiles from Kursk, Bryansk and Rostov oblasts, together with 210 drones: Shahed (110 of the…
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Danish firm MyDefence says about 2,000 of its Wingman passive drone detectors are in service with Ukrainian forces
The Danish company MyDefence has supplied Ukraine's Defence Forces with about 2,000 Wingman drone detectors, Militarnyi reports. "There are currently about 2,000 of these devices in Ukraine," said Ulrich Harde, the company's commercial director, describing Wingman as a combat-proven product. MyDefence also cooperates with Ukraine in other counter-drone area…
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«Зверху ми бачили верхівку айсберга» — на Куп’янському напрямку одним дроном знищили склад ракет (ArmyInform: '"From above we saw the tip of the iceberg": in the Kupiansk direction, one drone destroys a rocket depot')
The duty officer of the 'Legion' unmanned systems battalion of Ukraine's 33rd Separate Mechanised Brigade, call sign 'Veresen', told Army TV that his unit used FPV drones to strike a Russian 9P132 Grad-P ('Partizan') light rocket launcher and a rocket store next to it in the Kupiansk direction. According to ArmyInform, the launcher was found and designated…
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«„Залізні птахи“ проти „Шахедів“: батарея перехоплювачів збила дев’ять цілей за пів дня» (ArmyInform: '"Iron Birds" vs Shaheds: interceptor battery downs nine targets in half a day')
Ukraine's 3rd Separate Heavy Mechanised 'Iron' Brigade has released video of its 'Iron Birds' interceptor battery, part of the brigade's anti-aircraft missile battalion, which it says destroyed nine Russian Shahed attack drones in half a day. According to ArmyInform, the video shows most of the nine interceptions. The brigade says the battery also shot down…
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«Расчёт FPV-ПВО «Физрук»» (Dva Mayora: 'The "Fizruk" FPV air-defence crew' — 291st Motor Rifle Regiment SAM battery shows drone-intercept footage on the Zaporizhzhia front)
The milblogger channel Dva Mayora (Two Majors), reposting from the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division's channel 'Stalnaya Sorok Vtoraya', shares a video from the FPV air-defence crew with the call sign 'Fizruk' ('PE teacher'). The post places the crew in the surface-to-air missile battery of the 291st Motor Rifle Regiment of the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Divisi…
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Ukrainian Navy's Sargan 3000 sea drone launches a Wild Hornets Sting interceptor that shoots down a Russian Shahed/Geran at sea
The Ukrainian Navy has published footage of a Sargan 3000 uncrewed surface vessel (USV) destroying a Russian Geran (Shahed-type) attack drone with an interceptor drone launched from the boat. According to Militarnyi, the interceptor was a Sting, made by the Ukrainian company Wild Hornets, and it was launched from a container-based platform on the USV. Eurom…
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Ukraine still lacks a scalable answer to jet-powered Gerans: Brave1 says seven fast interceptor types have scored kills and over 1,000 are on order, while frontline crews and Sternenko's foundation point to speed and cost gaps
Ukrainian units on the front line describe jet-powered Gerans as largely beyond the reach of their current interceptor drones. At the command post of the 'Posipaky' battalion of the 39th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment on the Zaporizhzhia front, commander 'Ramses' told Ukrainska Pravda that jet drones flying at around 500 km/h are simply left alone, because…
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Ukrainian 'Nemesis' drone detachment caused about 70% of a US armored brigade's early casualties at Hohenfels, brigade commander writes
Ukrainian drone operators playing the enemy in a US Army exercise caused about 70% of an American armored brigade's casualties in the first three days, according to an article in Military Review, the US Army's professional journal, reported by Defence Blog. The authors are Col. Michael Ziegelhofer, commander of the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Caval…
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Ukraine's Raid drone regiment strikes rare Russian BREM-1 armoured recovery vehicle in Zaporizhzhia Oblast despite EW and anti-drone cages
Drone operators from the 2nd Battalion of the 413th Regiment of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, known as Raid, have struck a Russian BREM-1 armoured recovery vehicle in the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukrainska Pravda reports, citing the regiment's Telegram channel and a published video. The date of the strike was not disclosed. According to Ra…
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Ukrainian military intelligence says it captured three Russian soldiers infiltrating toward Zaporizhzhia through the dried-up Kakhovka Reservoir bed
Russian sabotage groups are using the dried-up bed of the former Kakhovka Reservoir to move behind Ukrainian lines toward Zaporizhzhia, Euromaidan Press reports, citing Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR). On 19 October HUR said fighters of the Bratstvo Battalion, part of its Timur Special Unit, had found and destroyed Russian sabotage groups and captured…
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Biletskyi: Russia's Rubicon drone unit was not used to being hunted, and its morale fell sharply when Ukraine targeted its pilots in Operation Vivaldi
Brig. Gen. Andrii Biletskyi, commander of Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps and of the 'Center' grouping, told journalists on 19 October that Rubicon, Russia's elite drone unit that specialises in hunting Ukrainian drone pilots, was not used to being hunted itself, and that its morale fell sharply once its pilots realised they were being killed, Euromaidan Press rep…
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«Тяжелые дроны – то, в чем нам нужно наверстывать упущенное» (Dva Mayora: 'Heavy drones — where we need to catch up')
The milblogger channel Dva Mayora (Two Majors) comments on Ukrainian footage of what it calls the first-ever battlefield casualty evacuation by a heavy hexacopter, the Gurzuf Defence from the Ukrainian company SkyFall. According to the post, Gurzuf Defence is the simpler of two evacuation models: the casualty clips himself to the drone with a safety line an…
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Starshield speed cap pushes Wild Hornets to rethink air-launched Sting interceptors and look at Eutelsat; Georgian Legion reports wider Starlink dropouts
Wild Hornets, the Ukrainian maker of the Sting interceptor drones used against Russian Shaheds, is reconsidering how far its future projects should rely on SpaceX's Starlink/Starshield after the speed cap imposed on Ukrainian terminals in mid-October (see e-20261016-08). Spokesman Mike Orliuk told The War Zone on 20 October that current Sting operations are…
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«Гусеницю збито. Рух неможливий» — бійці 225-го полку дев’ять годин витягували підбитий Т-72 (ArmyInform: ''Track shot off. Movement impossible': 225th Regiment troops spent nine hours recovering a damaged T-72')
The recovery platoon of Ukraine's 225th Separate Assault Regiment spent about nine hours pulling a drone-damaged T-72 tank out of its position, according to ArmyInform and Defense Express. Both outlets base their reports on video the regiment published. The tank had been damaged by enemy drone attacks, Defense Express specifies FPV drones. When the recovery…
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Russian FPV drone strikes Ukrainian Protector heavy ground drone near Orikhiv
Russian channels have released video of an FPV drone striking a Protector, one of Ukraine's largest uncrewed ground vehicles, while it was hauling logs near Orikhiv in Zaporizhzhia region, Defence Blog reports. The drone hit the cargo bed; the front of the vehicle, where the control and communications equipment sits, was covered by a mesh cage, and the stri…
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«Не звикли, що полюють за ними»: операція «Вівальді» показала головну ваду російського «Рубікону» (ArmyInform: '"Not used to being hunted": Operation Vivaldi showed the main flaw of Russia's Rubikon')
ArmyInform reports that, according to Ukrainian commanders, Operation Vivaldi exposed the main weakness of Rubikon, Russia's elite drone unit: its operators are used to hunting Ukrainian drone pilots, not to being hunted themselves. Brig. Gen. Andrii Biletskyi and Yaroslav Levenets, commander of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, describe Rubikon as special…
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Jet-powered Shaheds push Ukraine's big cities into near-permanent air-raid alerts: Kyiv spent a third of September under alert, as a jet drone can cross the capital in eight minutes
Since September 2026, following the large-scale appearance of jet-powered Shahed attack drones, Russia's strikes on Ukraine's rear have entered a new phase of escalation, Ukrainska Pravda writes in a survey compiled with local outlets in Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Dnipro. Targets now regularly include metals plants and other industry, retail warehouse…
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«Поранений, вбитий: російський реактивний дрон збили з другого разу» (ArmyInform: 'Wounded, then killed: Russian jet drone shot down at the second attempt')
ArmyInform reports on a combat video posted on 19 October by Ukraine's 78th Air Assault Brigade. In it, operators of the brigade's "Redneck" unit shoot down a Russian BM-35 ("Italmas") delta-wing kamikaze drone, which the article calls jet-powered and says Russia uses against frontline and rear-area cities. A first FPV interceptor drone hit the BM-35 and da…
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«Срочники идут в БАРС: „Мы хотим стрелять, мы хотим на пулемёт“» (WarGonzo: 'Conscripts join BARS: "We want to shoot, we want to be on the machine gun"')
The milblogger channel WarGonzo reports that young conscripts in Russia's Belgorod region are asking to join BARS units (the Combat Army Reserve, volunteer reservist formations) in order to "defend the Russian sky from Ukrainian drones" — the headline quotes them as wanting to shoot and to man a machine gun. According to the post, the recruitment of conscri…
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«"Птичка" в воздухе – "глаза" воина» (Krasnaya Zvezda: 'A "little bird" in the air is the warrior's "eyes"')
Krasnaya Zvezda, the Russian Ministry of Defence newspaper, profiles a contract soldier with the call sign 'Skif', a technical specialist supporting multirotor drone crews in the 10th Guards Tank Regiment of the 'Yuzhnaya' (South) Group of Forces. Before enlisting he studied information security, worked for an internet provider and repaired phones; he first…
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Russia's Gerbera-2 decoy drone now carries a 10-kg warhead plus an incendiary bag
Russia has begun fitting its Gerbera-2 strike and reconnaissance drones with a 10-kg high-explosive fragmentation-incendiary warhead plus an additional package of incendiary mixture, carried in a separate soft plastic tank behind the main warhead, Euromaidan Press reports citing Militarnyi (18 October). The set-up appears intended to start fires at the poin…
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From nets to tunnels: Ukraine's 93rd Brigade moves troops underground to evade drones
Militarnyi, drawing on a TSN television report, says troops of Ukraine's 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade are using underground tunnels to reach their positions on the Kramatorsk axis in Donetsk region. With enemy drones constantly overhead and the danger growing closer to the front, anti-drone nets stretched over roads no longer offer reliabl…
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«Внимание, товарищи! Противник использует новую тактику действий на оптоволоконных дронах» (WarGonzo: 'Attention, comrades! The enemy is using a new tactic with fibre-optic drones')
The Russian pro-war Telegram channel WarGonzo warns of what it calls a new enemy tactic with fibre-optic drones. According to the post, a fibre-optic 'Baba Yaga' (the Russian nickname for Ukrainian heavy multicopter drones) flies into the Russian rear and lands there, carrying on board a fibre-optic FPV drone with its own separate spool. Both spools, the ch…
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«Не відправили навіть піхоту: на Харківщині окупанти намагались «захопити» Колодязне дроном-прапороносцем» (ArmyInform: 'They didn't even send infantry: in Kharkiv Oblast the occupiers tried to "capture" Kolodiazne with a flag-carrying drone')
ArmyInform, citing a Telegram post by Ukraine's 3rd Separate Heavy Mechanized ('Iron') Brigade, reports that Russian forces tried to 'capture' the village of Kolodiazne in Kharkiv Oblast using only a drone carrying a Russian tricolour, without sending any infantry. According to the brigade, there were no Russian troops in the village, only Russian drones fl…
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«БЧ нельзя таран» (Dva Mayora: 'Warheads forbidden, so ramming')
The milblogger channel Dva Mayora criticises Russia's counter-drone approach over its own territory. It notes that the MoD reported large numbers of drones shot down, yet Ukrainian strikes still got through, and points to an MoD statement of 16 October (and earlier ones) stressing that long-range Ukrainian FP-type drones were downed by aerial ramming. Accor…
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BTR-82A gets factory-installed anti-drone cage armour
According to the Ukrainian outlet Militarnyi, the Russian BTR-82A armoured personnel carrier is now being fitted with a factory-installed protection kit against FPV drones and debris. The kit was reportedly developed at the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant and was spotted during exercises in Belarus. It uses a reinforced frame carrying metal grilles over the…
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Ukraine's 155th Mechanized Brigade says it repelled the largest Russian motorcycle assault of the year near Pokrovsk
Ukraine's 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade says it repelled, together with neighbouring units, the largest Russian motorcycle assault in its area of responsibility near Pokrovsk (Donetsk region) since the start of the year, Militarnyi reported on 17 October 2026, citing the brigade's press service. According to the brigade, Russian troops tried to reach Uk…
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«FPV зайшов у хвіст — НРК вистрілив сіткою: «Волинські бобри» показали захист наземного дрона» (ArmyInform: 'FPV got on its tail, the UGV fired a net: "Volyn Beavers" show ground drone protection')
According to ArmyInform, footage released by Ukraine's 100th Separate Mechanized Brigade shows a Russian FPV drone closing in on a Ukrainian unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) from behind. As the FPV approached, the UGV fired an anti-drone net. The drone became entangled, fell to the ground, and the UGV continued on its route. The incident shows a Russian TTP th…
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«Крутіть педалі, поки FPV не дали»: росіяни повезли ПТРК до переднього краю велосипедом (ArmyInform: '"Keep pedalling until the FPVs get you": Russians took an ATGM to the front line by bicycle')
According to ArmyInform, the Ukrainian unmanned systems battalion Signum published video on its Telegram channel of FPV drones striking Russian infantry and vehicles while they were still on the way to the front line. In one case, Russian troops were moving ATGM (anti-tank guided missile) tubes and other equipment by bicycle. The battalion said Russian vehi…
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Ukraine makes anti-drone road nets a national standard in defensive-lines strategy through 2028, in response to Russian FPV hunting of logistics
According to Ukraine's Defence Ministry, the Ukrainian government has approved a Strategy for the Engineering Equipment of Defensive Lines through 2028. One of its priorities is stronger anti-drone protection of logistics routes. The ministry says the strategy turns the existing, largely ad hoc road-protection efforts into a single national standard, with d…
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«Из миномётчиков в дроноводы» (Krasnaya Zvezda: 'From mortarmen to drone operators')
Krasnaya Zvezda profiles a serviceman with the call sign "Shustry", now deputy commander of a UAV platoon in the 10th Tank Regiment. He joined in January 2023 as a member of an 82-mm mortar crew, became gunner and then crew commander, and fought on the Avdiivka, South Donetsk, Kurakhove and Kostiantynivka axes. According to the paper, his mortar crews incre…
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Ukraine Destroys $20M russian Mi-28NM Attack Helicopter with FPV Drone (Video) (Defense Express)
According to Defense Express, air defence personnel of Ukraine's 115th Brigade destroyed a Russian Mi-28NM attack helicopter with an FPV drone. The strike was shown in a video published on Wednesday 14 October. The claim comes from the brigade's own statement: the helicopter was reportedly intercepted and hit by operators of the brigade's Prybultsi Battalio…
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«[…] выложили старый видос, где они повредили дроном Ми-28 летом» (Fighterbomber: 'Ukrainians posted an old video of damaging a Mi-28 with a drone in the summer')
This is the personal/editorial voice of the Russian pro-war Telegram channel Fighterbomber, not a position of the Russian MoD; milbloggers can contradict each other and the MoD, and the content has not been independently verified. In a short post on 14 October, the channel responds to the Ukrainian video of a Mi-28 being hit by an FPV drone. According to Fi…
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«Броня гуляє по 40 хвилин на полі бою»: у ДШВ попередили про загрозу на фронті (ArmyInform: 'Armour roams the battlefield for 40 minutes: Air Assault Forces warn of a threat at the front')
According to Colonel Volodymyr Polevyi, head of communications of the 7th Rapid Response Corps of Ukraine's Air Assault Forces (DShV), speaking on Army TV, Russian forces are accumulating armoured vehicles on the Huliaipole axis. He said it is hard to say whether this is linked to covert mobilisation. Besides the 35th and 5th Combined Arms Armies, he said u…
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«Ланцети», «Орлани» і «Князь»: Пілоти Signum за ніч знищили 25 російських безпілотників різних типів (ArmyInform: Lancets, Orlans and 'Knyaz' – Signum pilots destroyed 25 Russian drones of various types overnight)
Ukrainian state outlet ArmyInform reports that drone pilots of the Signum unit of the 57th Separate Motorised Infantry Brigade shot down 25 Russian UAVs of various types during one night of 'air patrol' over Ukrainian territory, and released video of the engagements. The list given is eight Zala, four Lancet, five Supercam, four 'KVO', one Merlin, two Orlan…
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«Минобороны России создана платформа для обучения нейросетей военного назначения» (Dva Majors / WarGonzo: Russian MoD creates a platform for training military neural networks)
This entry reflects the personal and editorial voice of the Russian pro-war Telegram channels Dva Majors and WarGonzo, not a Russian MoD position in itself. Milbloggers can contradict each other and the MoD, and the content is not independently verified. Both channels relay an announcement by the Russian Ministry of Defence, so the core claim also comes fro…
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«Турель под ударом» (Rybar: Turret under attack – FPV drone versus an air-defence system)
This is the personal and editorial voice of the Russian pro-war Telegram channel Rybar, not a position of the Russian Ministry of Defence. Milbloggers can contradict each other and the MoD, and the content has not been independently verified. Rybar claims that Russian units carried out another FPV drone strike on the city of Kharkiv, this time hitting a Sky…
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Ukraine's drone force claims it has killed or wounded more than 100,000 Russian troops this year, as drones account for an estimated 96% of Russian battlefield losses and Kyiv's FPV orders already exceed all of 2025 by 54%.
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) said on Telegram that its units have killed or wounded more than 100,000 Russian troops since the start of 2026, and more than 150,000 since the force was created on 11 June 2025. The force says it counts only hits that its own pilots confirm on video in the military's Delta system. USF commander Robert "Madyar" Brovd…
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«Налёт шаров» (Rybar: Balloon raid)
Caveat: this is a post by Rybar, a Russian pro-war Telegram channel (milblogger). It is a personal/editorial voice, not a position of the Russian Ministry of Defence; milbloggers can contradict each other and the MoD, and the claims below have not been independently verified. The post uses dismissive language about the Ukrainian leadership.
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Analyst Clément Molin counts 770 confirmed Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian supply trucks in September and warns that winter will make supplying Crimea even harder
French open-source mapper Clément Molin, who follows Ukraine's counter-logistics campaign closely, counted 770 confirmed Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian trucks in September in the logistics zone behind the front line. His count includes only hits confirmed by video or photographs, so the real number is likely higher. His monthly figures are 214 in May, 5…
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«На висоті 5500 метрів: «Маямі» з 92-ї бригади збив російський Supercam» (ArmyInform: At an altitude of 5,500 metres: 'Miami' of the 92nd Brigade shoots down a Russian Supercam)
According to the 92nd Separate Assault Brigade named after Koshovyi Otaman Ivan Sirko, a soldier with the call sign 'Miami' from the brigade's interceptor-drone battery 'Stervyatnyky' ('Vultures') shot down a Russian Supercam reconnaissance UAV at an altitude of 5.5 km. The interception was made with a Ukrainian interceptor drone, i.e. a drone used to destr…
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Ukrainian firm Phantom Defense says its counter-drone EW systems were tested at Fort Carson in the Pentagon's Drone Dominance programme
Ukrainian defence tech company Phantom Defense says its electronic warfare (EW) systems were tested in the United States during the second stage ("Gauntlet II") of the Pentagon's Drone Dominance programme, at Fort Carson in Colorado. According to the company's press service, speaking to Ukrainska Pravda, Phantom Defense was one of three manufacturers engage…
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China's military is preparing for Ukraine-style drone war
Defence Blog reports on a CSIS commentary published on 7 October by Lilly Min-Chen Lee (Taiwan's Research Institute for Democracy, Society and Emerging Technology) and Kateryna Bondar (CSIS Wadhwani AI Center), based on more than 90 Chinese-language sources from 45 outlets (July 2022 – August 2026), including PLA Daily and journals of China's state missile,…
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«Ходунки, які лізуть у щілину як таргани»: у 58-й бригаді розкрили тактику російських інфільтраційних груп (ArmyInform: 'Walkers that crawl into cracks like cockroaches': 58th Brigade describes Russian infiltration-group tactics)
Vasyl Leshchenko, commander of an assault company of the unmanned-systems battalion of Ukraine's 58th Separate Motorised Infantry Brigade, told the national telethon that on the southern Slobozhanskyi direction around Kozacha Lopan (Kharkiv region) Russian forces are trying to bypass Ukrainian flanks with small infiltration groups and large numbers of FPV d…
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«Безпілотна естафета» на «нуль»: як НРК, «Вампір» і малі дрони доставляють вантажі піхоті (ArmyInform: An 'unmanned relay' to the zero line: how UGVs, the 'Vampire' and small drones deliver supplies to infantry)
ArmyInform, based on a photo report by Ukraine's 93rd Separate Mechanised Brigade 'Kholodnyi Yar', describes how food and water reach front-line infantry in an 'unmanned relay'. From early morning twilight, fighters of the Corvus company of the brigade's rifle battalion load supplies onto a ground robotic system (UGV), which drives them to the operators of…
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В режиме свободной охоты (Krasnaya Zvezda: In free-hunt mode)
Krasnaya Zvezda profiles 'Altai', deputy commander of the FPV drone group of the 58th Separate Guards Special Purpose Battalion, which now fights on the Druzhkivka axis. The article opens by saying that the main weight of the fighting has shifted from the front edge to the near rear, where drones dominate and target the opposing sides' lines of communicatio…
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Ukrainska Pravda column: Russia's army adapts tactics under pressure but its top-down command culture persists, citing Voyennaya Mysl studies
In an opinion column in Ukrainska Pravda (8 October 2026), Liubov Tsybulska, a Ukrainian strategic-communications and hybrid-threats expert and director of the NGO Join Ukraine, compares Russian and NATO officer training, drawing on a Join Ukraine study of how Russia prepares officers for war. She contrasts NATO mission command, a professional NCO corps and…
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Russian firm DOFA-Tek unveils DF-1 'Roscherk' jet-powered drone interceptor (claimed 500 km/h)
According to the Russian state news agency TASS, the Russian company DOFA-Tek presented a jet-powered drone interceptor, the DF-1 "Roscherk", at the All-Russian Drone Congress 2026 in St Petersburg (7–9 October). The company claims a top speed of 500 km/h, a range of about 250 km and an endurance of up to 50 minutes. It is a disposable interceptor that can…
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Ukrainian FPV commander recalls drone kill on Russian UR-77 mine-clearer carrying over two tons of explosives
"Skipper", an FPV company commander in Ukraine's 413th Raid Unmanned Systems Regiment, told Army TV that his proudest strike was destroying a Russian UR-77 mine-clearing vehicle with a cheap FPV drone during Ukraine's 2023 counteroffensive. According to his account, the vehicle detonated after a second hit, and the blast was so large he thought it was "a sm…
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U.S. orders additional 1,320 Ukrainian F10 strike FPV drones under Drone Dominance Program
The U.S. military has ordered an additional 1,320 F10 strike FPV drones from the Ukrainian manufacturer F-Drones, the company told Militarnyi. The order falls under the Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program, a $1 billion, two-year effort to procure small strike drones, with more than 200,000 drones planned by 2027. According to Militarnyi, F-Drones ranks secon…
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550 метров из автомата: боец «БАРС-Курск» сбил дрон на запредельной дистанции (WarGonzo: 'BARS-Kursk' fighter downs a fibre-optic drone at 550 m with an assault rifle)
WarGonzo reports that a fighter with the call sign 'Rovny' from the 'Araba' volunteer detachment of the 'BARS-Kursk' brigade shot down a Ukrainian drone at a range of 550 metres with a standard-issue AK-74 assault rifle. According to the post, the drone was small, fast and flying at an altitude of about 70 metres; the channel attributes the hit to skill, co…
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Прокладывая маршруты «птицам» (Krasnaya Zvezda: Plotting routes for the 'birds')
Krasnaya Zvezda, the Russian MoD newspaper, profiles a serviceman with the call sign "Bayun" of the 58th Guards Separate Special Purpose Battalion ("Southern" group of forces), who serves as navigator in an FPV-drone crew. The article says the war has changed the nature of fighting and that many tasks are now solved with unmanned systems, yet a single FPV s…
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Russia's Spektr design bureau says it will start mass production of carbon-nanotube propellers for 500+ km/h FPV air-defence (interceptor) drones
Andrey Bratenkov, executive director of the Novosibirsk-based Spektr Design Bureau, told TASS that the bureau is preparing to launch mass production of a line of propellers for FPV air-defence drones, interceptors said to reach speeds above 500 km/h. Two sizes are planned: 12x12-inch and 7x12-inch.
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«Делюсь результатами работы «Барс-Белгород» за 2 недели с 18 сентября по 4 октября» (WarGonzo: Bars-Belgorod claims 382 Ukrainian drones downed in two weeks)
This is a post from the Russian pro-war Telegram channel WarGonzo (a milblogger), not an official Russian source. It represents a personal/editorial voice; milbloggers can contradict each other and the Russian Ministry of Defence, and the figures below have not been independently verified.
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«От тактики роевого применения дронов до атак безэкипажных танков» (Krasnaya Zvezda: From swarm drone tactics to uncrewed tank attacks — Tsentr-2026 wrap-up)
Krasnaya Zvezda, the Russian Defence Ministry's newspaper, published an overview of the main phase of the strategic command-staff exercise Tsentr-2026, which ended on 2 October at the Central Military District's 255th Chebarkul range, watched by President Putin and with Defence Minister Belousov reporting. According to the paper, more than 6,000 troops took…
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«Мамонт» на трассе «Новороссия»: тяжёлые FPV ВСУ против нашей логистики (Two Majors: balloon-delivered heavy Ukrainian FPV drones with Starlink attack the R-280 'Novorossiya' highway)
This is based on two posts from the Russian pro-war Telegram channel Два майора (Two Majors), a milblogger, not an official Russian source. It represents a personal/editorial voice; milbloggers can contradict each other and the Russian Ministry of Defence, and the claims below have not been independently verified.
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Tsentr-2026: Shturm robotic tank debut falters in the mud while T-90M's Arena-M downs drones in staged attack
During the Tsentr-2026 strategic exercise (28 September – 3 October, more than 47,000 troops according to the Russian Defence Ministry), Russia used uncrewed tanks from Uralvagonzavod's Shturm heavy robotic assault system in drills for the first time. The ministry said on 2 October that President Putin was shown the vehicles at the Chebarkul range in Chelya…
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"Droneports": Ukrainska Pravda and OSINT group CyberBoroshno map Russia's purpose-built Shahed/Geran launch bases, such as Tsimbulova, and explain why hardened, dispersed layouts make them so hard to destroy
In an investigation with the Ukrainian OSINT community CyberBoroshno, Ukrainska Pravda describes how Russia moved from launching Iranian-supplied Shaheds off existing military airfields (from autumn 2022, in Crimea and Bryansk and Kursk oblasts; known sites included Cape Chauda, Yeysk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk, Seshcha and positions near Balaklava) to a ne…
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Russian infiltrators in Kharkiv Oblast border villages draw a Ukrainian tank-drone counterattack: two spike-armoured 'hedgehog' tanks under a layered drone escort strike infiltrators in Vilkhuvatka and withdraw intact
Euromaidan Press (David Axe) reports that Russian infiltrators have been slipping into villages and towns along Ukraine's north-eastern border with Russia. The outlet assesses that the aim is likely to pull Ukrainian troops away from the larger battles farther south around Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. Ukraine wants to clear these small groups without tying dow…
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«Про це знає їхнє вище командування»: що стоїть за тактикою інфільтрації росіян між позиціями
ArmyInform reports remarks by Ruslana Bohdan, communications officer of Ukraine's 57th Separate Motorised Infantry Brigade (named after Kost Hordiienko), made on Army TV about the South-Slobozhanskyi (south Kharkiv) direction. According to Bohdan, Russian troops keep trying to slip through the gaps between Ukrainian positions. She stresses that these are no…
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От управляемой ракеты до FPV-дрона
Krasnaya Zvezda profiles a soldier with the call sign 'Doc' from the anti-tank battalion of the 238th Guards Artillery Brigade (Southern group of forces), a construction worker mobilised in 2022 who was first trained as a medic. The paper uses his career to illustrate its argument that the war has thinned out combat formations: tasks once handled by a plato…
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Майже 80 років і 9 тисяч кілометрів — до зустрічі з FPV: «Скіфські Грифони» уразили російський Т-54
The Ukrainian 423rd Separate Unmanned Systems Regiment 'Scythian Griffons' published video on 29 September 2026 of an FPV drone strike on a Russian T-54 tank in the Russian rear. According to ArmyInform, the tank had been fitted with additional protective structures against aerial attack, which the drone nevertheless penetrated. No location is given.
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МОГам на Запорожье дадут в помощь установку с ИИ и тормозами от велосипеда
WarGonzo (Telegram, 29 Sep 2026) reports that Timur, call sign 'Santa', commander of the repair company of the 70th regiment of the 42nd Guards Division (Zaporizhzhia axis), showed WarGonzo correspondent Dmitry Seleznev an experimental counter-UAV installation built by his unit. It is described as an automated, AI-equipped firing position with two machine g…
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Россия впервые представит экспортную версию БПЛА «Гарпия-А1» в КНР и Вьетнаме
Topwar (Voennoye Obozreniye, 29 Sep 2026) reports that the Almaz-Antey air and space defence concern plans to show the export version of its long-range 'Garpiya-A1 (E)' (Harpy-A1) unmanned strike system for the first time at the Vietnam Defence Show in Vietnam and at Airshow China. The drone is Almaz-Antey's own development.
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Советник Зеленского рассказал, как ВС РФ удаётся снимать попадания беспилотников
Topwar reports on an explanation by Zelensky adviser Sergey "Flash" Beskrestov of how Russian forces filmed a drone strike on the Inkom business centre in Kyiv. He rejected speculation that satellites or reconnaissance FPV drones were used.
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Ночные «Герани»: удары по Киеву, Николаеву и Одесской области
The Russian milblogger channel Rybar reports that Russian forces carried out an all-night strike on Kyiv and Kyiv oblast in the night leading into 27 September 2026, mainly with Geran-5 drones. It says port, logistics and maritime targets in several other regions were also hit. Rybar lists these targets: a Vodafone data centre in Kyiv, which it says provide…
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Syrskyi: Ukrainian active protection systems for armoured vehicles intercept 60–80% of FPV drones in testing
Oleksandr Syrskyi, whom Militarnyi describes as the former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, told LB.ua in an interview that Ukrainian active protection systems (APS) for armoured vehicles can already intercept between 60% and 80% of FPV drones. He said Ukraine and Russia are both developing systems to shield armour from drone attack, and t…
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Когда дронов слишком много
The Russian milblogger channel Rybar says a new compilation by war correspondent Alexander Kots illustrates "another systemic problem" for the Russian armed forces: the number of drones fielded by the opponent keeps growing, and so does the range of UAV types in use.
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«Мы не убегаем от FPV-дронов, мы на них охотимся»: мобильная огневая группа «БАРС-Курск» (группа Араба)
WarGonzo highlights a mobile fire group (MOG) of the volunteer brigade 'BARS-Kursk' (Group North) commanded by Yevgeny Lobaev, call sign 'Arab'. He is the son of the arms designer Vladislav Lobaev and originally joined the brigade as an instructor. The group operates on what it calls one of the hottest stretches of the Kursk border area. Its task is to shoo…
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Казахстан проводит масштабные стратегические учения «Батыл Тойтарыс – 2026»
Voennoye Obozreniye reports that CSTO member Kazakhstan is holding the strategic command-staff exercise 'Batyl Toitarys 2026' in September. Around 7,000 troops and some 2,000 weapons and vehicles are said to take part. The exercise has four components: land ('Aibalta 2026'), air ('Ashyk Aspan 2026'), naval, on the Caspian ('Khazar'), and territorial/inter-a…
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«Гость» и «Грош» оберегают пехоту
Krasnaya Zvezda reports that snipers from the Far East in the Group of Forces 'East' on the Zaporizhzhia axis now spend most of their time shooting down drones rather than enemy soldiers. Their main targets are FPV drones and heavy 'Baba Yaga' hexacopters. The sniper pair, a deputy platoon commander callsigned 'Gost' and a mobilised soldier from Buryatia ca…
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Ukrainian drone reportedly kills commander of Russia's 8th Artillery Regiment, a 2014 defector, in Kherson region
Colonel Aleksandr Isaev, commander of the Russian 8th Artillery Regiment, was killed on 19 September 2026 in Kherson region, according to the Ukrainian project "Book of Executioners of the Ukrainian People". It says he was hit by a drone of the Ukrainian Defence Forces. Most reports describe an FPV drone, and Militarnyi says it was reportedly a Bulava. Acco…
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Danish-Ukrainian startup BlueShadow plans armed sea-drone swarms to shoot down Russian attack drones over Odesa
BlueShadow, a Danish maritime-defence startup, is building a system called BlueDragon to protect Odesa against Russian attack drones. Euromaidan Press, citing Defender Media, reports that BlueDragon would use autonomous swarms of armed sea drones to shoot down Russian attack drones. The company also says it has built an open software platform that can help…
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Як працює 413-й полк «Рейд»: Євген Карась про знищення С-400 та діпстрайки по росії
In a radio interview on Army FM on 23 September 2026, Yevhen Karas (callsign "Vortex"), commander of the 413th Separate Unmanned Systems Regiment "Raid" of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, said the regiment destroyed a Russian S-400 air defence system together with four missiles that had been used against Kyiv, adding that many had doubted such a system c…
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Russia adapts to Ukraine's middle-strike drone campaign with mobile fire groups, Rubicon interceptors and Starlink jammers
According to a Kyiv Independent field report from the southern front, Russian forces have adapted to Ukraine's expanded "middle strike" campaign. That campaign uses drones against targets from roughly 35 km (the end of FPV range) out to about 300 km behind the line. Within weeks of the campaign being scaled up in the south, Russia changed logistics routes a…
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«Паук» слушает небо: акустическая система обнаружения БПЛА
Voennoe Obozrenie (Topwar), in a piece by Kirill Ryabov, describes 'Pauk' ('Spider'), a Russian acoustic system for detecting drones. It is a domestic development by a resident company of the 'Ushkuynik' science and industry centre; the company itself is not named. The system was first reported by the Russian daily Izvestia on 22 September. Instead of radar…
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Omsk's Transmash Plant Develops Own Anti-Drone Armor for T-80BVM Tanks
Omsk's Transmash plant (part of Uralvagonzavod) has developed its own anti-drone protection kit for T-80BVM tanks, distinct in design from the arrangement used on T-72B3M/T-90M tanks built at Uralvagonzavod's Nizhny Tagil plant. The Omsk variant combines a large "mangal" (cope-cage-style false roof) on metal supports, angled metal-grid screens around the hu…
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Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps Claims It Crippled Russia's Elite Rubicon Drone Unit
Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps claims to have significantly degraded Russia's elite Rubicon drone unit as part of Operation Vivaldi, the corps' counteroffensive north and east of Lyman in northern Donetsk Oblast. According to the corps, Ukrainian forces destroyed Rubicon's command infrastructure, logistics networks, ammunition storage and drone launch facilities…
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Aerial Helpers of the Storm Troopers
This item comes from Krasnaya Zvezda ("Red Star"), the official newspaper of the Russian Ministry of Defence, and is single-source: none of its claims have independent confirmation. As a Russian MoD state outlet, the content is by definition one-sided and propagandistic, intended to portray Russian forces favourably — it must therefore be treated with consi…
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Ukraine Receives Australian Slinger 30mm Anti-Drone Systems
Ukraine's armed forces have received Slinger anti-drone modules from the Australian company Electro Optic Systems (EOS), based in Canberra. The system is a remotely operated weapon station built around the 30 mm Bushmaster M230LF cannon, purpose-built to detect and destroy low-flying drones ranging from FPV kamikaze drones to reconnaissance UAVs.
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For First Time, Foreign Government Directly Funds a Ukrainian Drone School: Canada Backs Prytula Foundation
Canada is funding a 24-month drone-operator training course in Ukraine through its Military Training and Cooperation Program (MTCP), delivered by the Serhii Prytula Foundation. According to the report, this marks the first time a foreign government has directly funded a Ukrainian drone-training school, rather than only supplying equipment or channeling supp…
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Ukrainian radio relay survives 10 Russian strikes, keeps transmitting after building collapse
HIMERA B1 is a Ukrainian-made autonomous radio repeater that extends the range of battlefield mesh radio networks. It uses AES-256 encryption and pseudo-random frequency hopping to resist interception, direction-finding and jamming. The manufacturer, Himera, was founded by a volunteer from Kyiv Oblast's territorial defense who identified critical battlefiel…
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Ukrainian Drone Worth Hundreds of Dollars Destroys russian Air Defense System Worth $10 Million (Video)
According to Defense Express, the Phoenix unit of Ukraine's Pomsta Brigade destroyed a Russian 9K33 Osa air defense system deep behind Russian lines using an FPV drone. The source, citing Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs, estimates the drone's cost at several hundred dollars and the destroyed Osa system's value at roughly $10 million.
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Oklahoma National Guard Trials Ukraine-Style Cage Armor on Convoy Vehicles
During Exercise Thunderstruck 3.0, held September 12 at Camp Gruber Training Center, Oklahoma National Guard convoy vehicles were photographed and filmed fitted with welded wire-mesh cage screens against first-person-view (FPV) drones. This is the same basic principle behind the improvised 'cope cages' that Ukrainian forces began welding onto tanks and truc…
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Russia's New T-90M and T-72B3M Tanks Arrive With Upgraded Anti-Drone Protection
Russian state manufacturer Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) — the sanctioned tank plant in Nizhny Tagil — has delivered a new batch of T-90M "Proryv" and T-72B3M tanks to Russian forces, according to parent company Rostec. The delivery was timed to coincide with the 80th observance of Russia's "Tank Crew Day." As with previous batches, Russia disclosed neither the quan…
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France Tests Tethered Balloon to Protect Nuclear Rafale Airbase From Drone Strikes
The French Air and Space Force trialled a tethered balloon (aerostat, 12 by 7 metres) as a drone-detection sensor platform at 113th Airbase Commandant Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Saint-Dizier-Robinson from 31 August to 4 September 2026. Hovering at roughly 200 metres, the balloon carried an EO/IR camera paired with an AI-based threat-detection algorithm fee…
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Ukraine strikes two Pantsir-S1 systems, radar station, drone facilities and engine plant
On 11 September 2026, Ukraine's General Staff reported a series of simultaneous precision strikes on multiple Russian targets. Two Pantsir-S1 gun-missile air defense systems were knocked out near Taganrog in Russia's Rostov region, and an enemy radar station was hit near Berezki in Bryansk region; the specific radar type was not identified in reporting.
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Polish Lubawa Unveils Net Screen Against FPVs and Grenade Launchers
Polish manufacturer Lubawa S.A. has unveiled a lightweight net screen ('Lekka osłona siatkowa') at the MSPO 2026 defense exhibition in Poland, designed to protect vehicles against both shaped-charge RPG rounds (PG-7V and PG-7VM type) and FPV drone strikes. The screen consists of a frame made from composite material or aluminum alloy, with tear-resistant, we…
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Moscow Military District to form reservist drone-interceptor units for capital air defense
On 9 September 2026 the exiled Russian outlet Meduza, citing the state news agency TASS, reported that the Moscow Military District will form dedicated drone-interceptor units manned by reservists to reinforce the air defense of "critically important facilities" around the capital. The units are to operate high-speed interceptor drones (FPV interceptors) as…
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Ukraine's National Guard says fiber-optic drones rose from 20% to 70% of its drone war
Ukraine's National Guard has rapidly rebuilt its FPV drone force around fiber-optic control. According to National Guard commander Oleksandr Pivnenko, speaking in a YouTube interview on the LB Live channel on 9 September 2026, the share of fiber-optic ("wired") drones in the Guard's drone employment has risen from roughly 20% to roughly 70%. These figures a…
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Ukrainian Abrams reportedly survives 20 FPV drone hits with improvised cage-and-hedgehog armour
Defense Express reports that two Ukrainian video materials appeared in open access at roughly the same time, both dealing with improvised anti-drone protection fitted to M1A1 Abrams tanks in Ukrainian service. In an interview by the outlet Hromadske with crews of the 425th Separate Assault Regiment "Skelia," the tankers describe an episode in which one of t…
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Почему танки перестали доминировать на поле боя? (Rybar video essay)
Rybar published a short video essay (2:21) from its #ИсторияПодвига series, forwarded from the affiliated channel Тактикарь, asking why the tank no longer dominates the battlefield. Rybar first sketches the classic role: since the early twentieth century the tank was the "steel fist" of armies — it broke through defensive lines, supported infantry and serve…
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Ukrainian "Lupinis-10" AI-guided FPV drone destroys Russian drone catapult launcher
SINGLE SOURCE — Ukrainian publication (Ministry of Defense, ArmyInform). Per the 58th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade "Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky," the unit destroyed a Russian drone while it was still on its catapult launcher, ready for take-off. The strike used a Lupinis-10-TFL-1: a Ukrainian FPV attack-drone system made by The Fourth Law (with Odd Systems)…
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Перехват «Бабы Яги»: операторы БпЛА группировки войск «Север» перехватили украинский гексакоптер в полёте
The Russian milblogger channel WarGonzo (reposting the Telegram channel of the 44th Army Corps) reports that UAV operators of the Russian «Sever» (North) group of forces intercepted a Ukrainian «Baba Yaga» heavy multirotor bomber — a hexacopter — while it was in flight. Per the post, after «a precise hit» it lost control and crashed. The post does not spell…
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Russian artillery brigades stand up organic counter-battery UAV subunits, Izvestia reports
The pro-military Russian outlet Topwar (author Kirill Ryabov), on 7 September 2026, relays a 4 September 2026 Izvestia report citing unnamed sources that artillery brigades of the Russian Ground Forces have stood up their own organic UAV subunits dedicated to counter-battery warfare (RU: “подразделения БПЛА контрбатарейной борьбы”). The subunits are said to…
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Самый опасный враг сегодня – в небе
SINGLE SOURCE — Krasnaya Zvezda is the official newspaper of the Russian Ministry of Defence (a state outlet); the account and claims below reflect the Russian MoD position and are not independently verified.
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Russian milbloggers push for networking mobile fire groups (MOG) as frontline counter-drone air defence
MILBLOGGER — this rests on two personal/editorial pro-Russian Telegram channels (Rybar and WarGonzo), not an official Russian MoD position. Milbloggers routinely contradict each other and the ministry, inflate claimed results, and pursue their own agendas (Rybar openly promotes allied channels and a named manufacturer); the figures below are not independent…
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Finland's Patria to Partner With Ukraine's General Cherry on Drone Production
On 24 August 2026, Defense News reported that Finnish defense manufacturer Patria has signed a letter of intent with Ukrainian drone maker General Cherry to jointly develop unmanned systems and establish drone production in Finland. General Cherry, co-founded by Stanislav Hryshyn, makes one-way FPV strike drones and interceptor drones among other products,…
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Russian Ground Robot Operator Claims Extended Control Range for Kuryer UGV
SINGLE SOURCE — Russian state media (TASS). According to TASS, the crew commander of a ground robotic system, callsign "Burya", from the 75th Separate Unmanned Systems Regiment (Battlegroup South), claims Russian troops are independently upgrading unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in the field, including the Kuryer platform, to extend their control range. The…
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Ukrainian Border Guards Destroy Russian Giatsint-B Howitzer with FPV Drones
SINGLE SOURCE — Defense Express (Ukrainian defense media). According to Defense Express, drone operators from the Apex unit, part of the Forpost Border Guard Brigade, destroyed a Russian 2A36 Giatsint-B howitzer on the South Slobozhanske axis on 19 August. The gun was first detected while providing fire support to Russian troops in the area, after which the…
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«Теперь российские FPV-дроны видимы»: комплекс активной защиты SOVA-1.0 для ВСУ
Russian pro-Kremlin outlet topwar.ru reports that Ukrainian company Tactical Technology has developed an integrated active protection complex (APS) called SOVA-1.0 for use by Ukraine's armed forces (ZSU) against Russian FPV drones. The system reportedly combines four detection methods: RF detection via the FlyOff software with directional antennas (range up…
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«Рубікон», «Ланцети» і рої FPV: як росіяни штурмують Покровський напрямок
Sergeant Oleksiy Hodzenko, spokesman for the "Korsar" unmanned systems battalion of Ukraine's 38th Separate Marine Infantry Brigade (named after Hetman Petro Sahaidachny), described fighting in the Pokrovsk direction in a broadcast on Army TV on 29 July 2026. He said Russian forces continue attacking with small infantry groups that try to infiltrate Ukraini…
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Ukraine Destroys Msta-B, Giatsint-B and BM-21 Grad Systems, FPV Drone Cache Near Dobropillia
According to Defense Express (22 July 2026), Ukraine's Phoenix border guard unit reportedly destroyed a cluster of Russian artillery and rocket systems on the Dobropillia axis in Donetsk Oblast: a 2A65 Msta-B 152mm self-propelled howitzer, a 2A36 Giatsint-B 152mm towed field gun, and a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher — the latter reportedly engaged whil…
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Those Who Shouldn't Have Are Muscling Into the Niche: The French Aerosol Drone-Defense System S-KAPS Counter Drone
Russian military commentary outlet Topwar, in an article titled (in Russian) "В нишу лезут те, кому не следовало..." ("Those who shouldn't have are muscling into the niche..."), describes the French S-KAPS Counter Drone system, developed by a consortium of Lacroix, Bertin Technologies and MC2 Technologies. Rather than destroying drones, the system masks arm…
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Стрелок под бронёй: что турецкий SARP меняет в войне дронов, а что нет
SINGLE SOURCE — Russian publication (Topwar.ru). The article analyzes the Turkish ASELSAN SARP remote weapon station (RWS) and concludes it represents an evolutionary, not revolutionary, change in drone warfare. RWS technology predates quadcopters by decades — the concept traces back to remotely-operated turrets on the B-29 bomber — and modern iterations su…
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Ukraine's Phoenix Drone Unit Destroys russian T-72 and T-62 Tanks, Artillery, and Personnel
SINGLE SOURCE — Ukrainian publication. Defense Express reports, based on video material from Ukraine's 'Phoenix' drone unit, the destruction of Russian T-72 and T-62 tanks, artillery pieces, and personnel in an unspecified front sector. The article presents this as an operational success for specialized FPV/reconnaissance drone units.