Two Russian ballistic missiles hit a defense-industry expo near Kyiv, killing at least 10, a day after Zelensky and Raytheon agreed to co-produce Patriot interceptors. The strike is the risk statement for Ukraine's air-defense industrial plan.
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Anduril in talks at $100 billion, two months after its $61 billion round
Reuters says investors are weighing a two-stage deal that would price the nine-year-old drone maker near Lockheed Martin's market value, a day after Bloomberg reported its Rheinmetall partnership shrank.
USA · Funding · Anduril
Fire Point's Flamingo burns the plant behind Russia's ejection seats
One Kirov factory supplies K-36DM escape seats for Russia's fighter fleet and feeds the Tor missile line. Ukraine reached it with a domestic cruise missile at roughly 1,200 kilometers.
Ukraine · Russia · Air
Ukraine puts AI turret batteries over its energy grid
Several experimental batteries of AI robotic gun turrets are already guarding Ukrainian energy sites, the deputy commander-in-chief says, at $35,000 to $160,000 a turret against interceptors that cost far more.
Ukraine · Air Defense · counter-drone
Russia's big three marketplaces now write drone strikes into the fine print
Ukraine's long-range drone campaign has moved from refineries into e-commerce logistics, and Wildberries, Ozon and Yandex Market have all rewritten seller contracts to push the loss onto merchants.
Ukraine · Russia · drones
NODA AI takes $10M to keep Pentagon robot fleets fighting after jammers cut the link
A $10 million award buys the Pentagon an orchestration layer rather than another airframe, software meant to hold a commander's intent across drones, boats and ground robots from any maker after electronic warfare kills the link.
USA · Autonomy · NODA AI
US and Ukraine sign a first drone framework, weeks after the shipments started
A bilateral statement of intent opens a formal export channel for Ukrainian land, air and maritime drones into Pentagon testing, though neither government has confirmed it and it commits nobody to buy anything.
Ukraine · USA · Autonomy
One Kirov factory supplies K-36DM escape seats for Russia's fighter fleet and feeds the Tor missile line. Ukraine reached it with a domestic cruise missile at roughly 1,200 kilometers.
Several experimental batteries of AI robotic gun turrets are already guarding Ukrainian energy sites, the deputy commander-in-chief says, at $35,000 to $160,000 a turret against interceptors that cost far more.
Ukraine's long-range drone campaign has moved from refineries into e-commerce logistics, and Wildberries, Ozon and Yandex Market have all rewritten seller contracts to push the loss onto merchants.
The Houthi strike on two Saudi tankers turned the Red Sea into a second front alongside the Strait of Hormuz and pushed Brent past $100. The drones and missiles doing it cost a fraction of what it takes to stop them, and that gap is the story.
A decade of documented contact, one EU finding of intelligence collusion and a live corruption case establish Russian access and cultivation, not Kremlin financing or command of the party. The variable the whole file turns on is German weapons for Ukraine.
Six days of protests cost Zelensky both his commander-in-chief and his chief of the General Staff. The new command team carries Mykhailo Fedorov's reform agenda without Fedorov, who is still refusing to come back.
Helsing, Quantum Systems and Stark raised $3.5 billion between them this summer. The deal terms underneath show all three scaling on production capacity they do not own.
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