The US Air Force is taking notes from Ukraine's shock Operation Spiderweb to protect its strategic bombers

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Inside an airbase shelter, an aircraft sits on a runway and people stand around it. The background is a blue sky with a line of clouds.
Ukraine's operation Spiderweb against Russian aircraft could provide lessons for major military powers.

US Air Force photo by Senior Airman Omari Bernard

Ukraine unveiled what appears to be a new Neptune missile upgrade — a larger, more lethal take on the homegrown weapon

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An image of Ukraine's R-360
Ukraine's R-360 "Neptune" missile with an extended range.

Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security

NATO and Ukraine are teaming up to fight Russia's hard-to-kill weapons

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A Russian Su-34 bomber drops a glide bomb to strike Ukrainian positions in August 2024.
A Russian Su-34 bomber drops a glide bomb to strike Ukrainian positions in August 2024.

Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP

Ground drones are being used in at least 8 ways in Ukraine. A robotics operator thinks one is the most promising.

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A small wheeled robot fitted with a grenade launcher rolls on a dirt ground with a grey sky and a man behind it
Ukraine is using ground robots for a variety of uses, including firing RPG-7 grenade launchers as pictured and blowing up Russian positions.

Stringer/REUTERS

Satellite images show Russia's got a new front-line drone launch site that cuts Ukraine's reaction time but puts the base at risk

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Launch rails and drone storage sheds are seen at the Donetsk airport on August 17.
Russia built a new drone launch site at an airport in the occupied Donetsk region.

Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies

It looks like jam-proof drones, a Ukraine war battlefield scourge, showed up at the US Navy's Silent Swarm exercise

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A small, black fiber-optic first-person view drone sits on rocks at a beach, with waves and a blue sky in the background.
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US Air National Guard photo by 1st. Lt. Elise Wahlstrom

Price hike on US weapons sales to Europe may pay for American 'air cover' for Ukraine, Treasury says

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Exercise Artemis Strike is a German-led tactical live fire exercise with live Patriot and Stinger missiles at the NATO Missile Firing Installation in Chania, Greece from Oct. 31-Nov. 09.
The US Army is learning from Ukraine's use of the Patriot surface-to-air missile system.

US Army Europe

A Ukrainian weapons maker is building a new unjammable drone with a 100-kilometer reach. It says 'the war has changed.'

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An FPV drone controlled via a fiber-optic cable flies during Ukrainian military training on January 29, 2025, in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
Fiber-optic drones have emerged as one of the deadliest threats on the battlefield in Ukraine.

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Ukraine says its forces bombed a Russian ship carrying Iranian ammo as it ramps up deep-strike operations

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The Port Olya 4 passes through the Suez Canal in Egypt.
The Russian cargo vessel Port Olya 4.

REUTERS/Catherine Cartier/File Photo

Russia improved its missiles. Now, Ukraine's Patriots are struggling to consistently shoot them down, defense intel says.

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A Patriot missile system fires at a live-fire missile range near Capu Midia, Romania, Jun. 19, 2019 during exercise Shabla 19.
The US Army is learning from watching how Ukraine uses its Patriot air defense systems.

Capt. Aaron Smith/174 Air Defense Artillery Brigade

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