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Defense & Combat
Russia Hits Nine Ukrainian Oblasts in a Single Night, Blacking Out Power From Kyiv to Kharkiv
A 161-drone barrage mixing Shaheds, jet-powered variants, Gerbera decoys and a loitering S8000 Banderol struck nine Ukrainian oblasts overnight September 11, knocking out power and hitting a chemical plant deep inside Russia in return.
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Defense & Combat
Germany Formally Blames Russia for Leipzig Airport Drone Attack, Shuts Bonn Consulate
Berlin has formally attributed the August 4 explosive drone found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport to Russia, closing Moscow's Bonn consulate and drawing NATO and EU statements of solidarity.
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Defense & Combat
Green Berets Run First-Ever NATO Ally Drone Drill With Polish Special Forces in Germany
US Army Green Berets put Polish special forces through a new Ukraine-inspired drone infiltration exercise in Bavaria — the first time any NATO ally besides the US has run the drill, with plans to scale it across the alliance.
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Defense & Combat
Cutting Out the Ground Station: P-8 Crews Task MQ-4C Triton Drones Directly in First Automated Navy MUM-T Demo
In a Boeing/Northrop Grumman demo, a P-8A Poseidon crew tasked an MQ-4C Triton via machine-readable UCI messages — the drone planned its own transit, worked its sensors, processed data with AI and reported back over satellite relay, no ground control station required.
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Defense & Combat
Romania Downs String of Suspected Russian Drones in Three-Day NATO Airspace Breach
Romania scrambled F-16s and NATO Eurofighters to shoot down at least three suspected Russian Shahed-type drones over three straight days, prompting a diplomatic expulsion and a stark 2026 tally: 19 incursions and counting.
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Defense & Combat
China's Type 076 'Sichuan' Becomes the World's First Amphibious Assault Ship to Catapult-Launch Combat Drones
New close-up footage of China's first Type 076, Sichuan, confirms an electromagnetic catapult and arresting gear tuned for fixed-wing UAVs — a drone-carrier capability no U.S. or NATO amphibious ship currently fields.
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Defense & Combat
MALE and HALE UAV Deliveries in 2026: Who's Shipping What
A reference guide to medium- and high-altitude long-endurance drone deliveries in 2026: MQ-9B handovers across Europe and Asia, NATO's Triton letter of intent, Baykar's Akinci production surge, China's Wing Loong assembly lines, Israel's Heron Mk II squadron, and the Eurodrone that still isn't shipping.
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Defense & Combat
NATO Allies Sign Letter of Intent for Up to Five MQ-4C Triton Drones to Watch the High North
Denmark, Finland, Germany, and Norway signed a letter of intent in Ankara to jointly buy up to five Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton drones, extending NATO's high-altitude maritime surveillance net over the Atlantic, Baltic, and Arctic approaches.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's Drone Fleet Hits 36 Shadow-Fleet Tankers in Four Days, Squeezing Crimea and Russian Fuel Supplies
Ukraine's 414th Brigade under Robert 'Magyar' Brovdi struck 36 vessels — mostly Russian shadow-fleet tankers — in four days using Fire Point FP-1/FP-2 drones, choking Crimea's fuel lines as Washington quietly updates its own Russia sanctions licenses.
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Defense & Combat
Denmark, Finland, Germany and Norway to Buy Up to Five MQ-4C Tritons for NATO's ISR Fleet
Four NATO allies announced in Ankara that they will procure up to five Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton drones, NATO's first Triton buy, to bolster alliance-owned maritime surveillance in the High North.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's Long-Range Drone Campaign Escalates as Russia Retaliates on Kyiv
Ukraine hit Russian oil, naval and defense sites with two massive drone barrages in 48 hours; Russia answered with 351 drones and 68 missiles on Kyiv, killing at least 12 as Zelensky pressed NATO for more interceptors.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's Magura Naval Drone Sinks a Target Ship in the Philippines — Its First Indo-Pacific Combat Debut
U.S. Green Berets used a Ukrainian-built Magura drone boat to sink a target vessel during Balikatan 2026, marking the first Indo-Pacific deployment of battle-tested Ukrainian naval-drone technology.
