Ukraine's Soviet-era 'Shahed hunter' turboprop plane is launching interceptor drones from the sky

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A Sting interceptor launches from the wing of an An-28.
Ukrainian drone makers have been launching their interceptors from An-28s in combat.

Wild Hornets

Russians turned a recon drone into an extended-range mothership for its FPV quadcopters

Tech Insider : Business
Russian soldier holds an Orlan-10.
Russian troops use the Orlan-10 primarily as a reconnaissance drone, but it was recently seen carrying FPV quadcopters under its wings.

Russian Defense Ministry / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images

Why Lockheed Martin's $2 trillion F-35 program is so expensive

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F-35 flying in the air
Lockheed Martin's F-35 is one of the most advanced aircraft ever designed. Buying and keeping them flying for decades is estimated to cost the US government $2 trillion.

Leon Neal/Getty Images

Ukraine teamed up its sea and interceptor drones for the first time to down a Russian Shahed

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A delta-wing drone is seen from behind. An interceptor drone rises out of a cubby on a sea drone.
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces said it destroyed a Shahed using an interceptor launched from a sea drone.

Unmanned Systems Forces

Inside the Army's extreme test lab, inventing futuristic food, gear, and warfighters

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A soldier aiming a gun at a virtual screen with digital people walking toward him.
Soldiers train on digital screens at Natick.

Business Insider

Ukraine has been secretly launching rockets into space from an 'air spaceport' flying at 26,000 feet, lawmaker says

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Fedir Venislavskyi speaks with a microphone.
Fedir Venislavskyi, People's Deputy, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, speaks during a briefing in 2024.

Novyny LIVE/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

The West is preparing for cheap drone attacks, but many businesses and civilians can only watch, not stop them

Tech Insider : Business, Sports, Technology
A Ukrainian man holds a Chuika detector.
The Chuika detector alerts the user to the presence of a nearby drone and sometimes shows them the UAV's video feed.

Blue Bird Tech

Why Ukraine's drone defense playbook may not fully translate for countries facing Iranian threats in the Middle East

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Two air defense interceptors sit on the ground in a wooded area with a khaki-gloved hand touching one of them
Ukraine has developed impressive air defense practices, but the Middle East can't copy all of them directly.

Nikoletta Stoyanova/Getty Images

The US Army surged its largest counter-drone training deployment to the Middle East during the Iran war

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US soldiers carry an AS3 interceptor, part of a modular American-made AI-powered counter-drone system Merops, during a presentation at a polygon in Nowa Deba, Poland, November 18, 2025.
The US Army has surged dozens of Merops counter-drone systems to the Middle East during the Iran war.

Kacper Pempel/REUTERS

Marines say the best attack drone pilots might be dirt bikers, not gamers

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A Marine with 1st Marine Division handles a Parrot Amari AI drone during a training exercise in Singapore, March 26, 2025.
A Marine with 1st Marine Division handles a Parrot Amari AI drone during a training exercise in Singapore, March 26, 2025.

Cpl. Tyler Wilson/US Marine Corps

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