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  1. Ukraine Finished the Refinery List. Now It Has to Keep Them Offline. A $50,000 drone flew 2,500 kilometers to Omsk and completed a target list Kyiv worked through for two years. Reach is no longer the problem. What remains is a race between repair crews and strike tempo, and a second front against the tankers that move whatever Russia still refines. Ukraine · Russia · drones
  2. Kraken raises $175M at a $1bn valuation, days after airdropping a drone boat from an A400M A $175 million Series B makes Kraken Technology Group Europe's newest maritime-defence unicorn, a week after its uncrewed K3 SCOUT became the first drone boat parachuted into the sea from a transport aircraft. Europe · Naval · Kraken Technology Group
  3. Quantum Systems Sends Ukraine's National Guard Ten Ground Robots and Ten Driverless Trucks A week after its $1.2 billion raise, the Munich drone maker moves from the air onto the ground in Ukraine, fielding its Mandrill robot and autonomy-fitted Zetros trucks for combat validation with the National Guard. Ukraine · Autonomy · Quantum Systems
  4. Russia fields Volna Kupol Garant jammers against Ukraine's Starlink strike drones Russia has begun fielding Volna Kupol Garant jammers that blank Starlink over 20 square kilometers, the network most of Ukraine's long-range strike drones fly on, Reuters reports, but the complexes radiate a signature loud enough to become targets. Ukraine · Russia · Electronic Warfare
  5. Poland's PGZ to build Anduril's Barracuda-500M cruise missile in Bydgoszcz The July 6 agreement makes Poland the first European producer of Anduril's mass-production cruise missile, with thousands of rounds planned and a route to EU-funded sales under the SAFE scheme. Europe · Policy · Anduril
  6. Trump Hands Kyiv the Patriot License. Then He Offers to Buy Ukraine's Drones. Trump granted Ukraine a license to build Patriot interceptors and said the US would buy Ukrainian drones, while Germany signed to produce Kyiv's Bars missile-drone. In one Ankara afternoon, the four-year one-way arms pipeline became two-way trade. Ukraine · USA · Europe
  7. Warren demands Pentagon AI contracts as Senate NDAA writes rules for military autonomy Sen. Elizabeth Warren gave the Pentagon and seven AI vendors until July 20 to open their classified-network AI agreements, weeks after Senate defense authorizers wrote human-judgment requirements and a nuclear-launch ban for military AI into their draft policy bill. USA · Policy · Pentagon
  8. US hits more than 80 Iranian targets after three tankers struck in the Strait of Hormuz CENTCOM's largest strike wave since June hit anti-ship missile sites and more than 60 IRGC fast boats after attacks on three tankers; Tehran answered at US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait, and the June ceasefire looks dead. Iran · USA · Naval
  9. ATACMS Goes German. The Missiles Kyiv Actually Needs Stay in Arkansas. Lockheed and Rheinmetall will build ATACMS at Unterlüß, the first production line outside the US. The same summit gave the Patriot interceptors Kyiv is dying without only a repair shop. Europe · Ukraine · USA
  10. Forterra says 105 of its robot ATVs have run 1,100 combat missions in Ukraine The first American autonomous ground vehicles in the war have driven 2,500 miles, hauled 777,440 pounds of cargo and evacuated 52 casualties since October, and the Ukrainian units running them want more, cheaper. Ukraine · USA · Autonomy
  11. Surtr raises $4.8M seed for counter-drone software already tested in Kyiv Ukraine's Brave1 pulled the months-old YC startup to Kyiv before it even held an export license, a measure of how much front-line demand now rides on the counter-drone integration layer. Ukraine · USA · Funding
  12. Ukraine's upgraded FP-1 drones hit Russia's largest refinery in the war's deepest strike Fire Point's new FP-1 variant flew roughly 3,000 kilometers to Omsk, closing out the last of Russia's 11 biggest gasoline producers still untouched. Ukraine · Russia · drones
  13. Ukraine's Offense Went Sovereign. Its Defense Is Still Waiting on a Delivery Date. On NATO summit day, Ukraine flew drones 3,000 km to hit Russia's largest refinery and stopped none of 29 ballistic missiles over Kyiv. The split is the war's next phase. Ukraine · Russia · Air Defense
  14. Ukraine's AI-guided midrange drones break Russian jamming, hitting 8 of 10 sorties After SpaceX cut Russian forces' unauthorized Starlink access, upgraded Ukrainian drones evade jamming and keep Russia's supply lines under fire deep behind the front. Ukraine · drones · Starlink
  15. AeroVironment wins a $500M homeland counter-drone contract, pushing Switchblade's maker into base defense The loitering-munition maker's entry into JIATF-401's Domestic Shield program turns a record quarter into a foothold in homeland counter-drone defense. USA · Air Defense · aerovironment
  16. Ukraine's drones strike Russia's Baltic oil ports as Kyiv takes a second mass barrage As Russia killed at least 10 people in its second mass strike on Kyiv in a week, Ukraine's long-range drones hit two of Russia's biggest Baltic oil-export terminals and blacked out the Black Sea Fleet's home port, pressing its campaign to choke Moscow's oil revenue. Ukraine · Russia · drones
  17. Russia Spent 18 Months Flying Drones Over NATO's Bases. Europe's Answer Is €325 Million. A new IISS report maps a covert, sea-launched drone campaign against Europe's rear. Brussels answered the same week with a five-project "drone wall" a fraction of the size of the problem it describes. Europe · Air Defense · Russia
  18. Ukraine asks nearly 40 countries for their Patriot stocks after Russia's deadliest Kyiv strike of 2026 Kyiv's defenses stopped 90 percent of the cruise missiles and drones in Russia's 11-hour barrage. The ballistic missiles that got through are a delivery problem: interceptors Ukraine already bought have not arrived. Ukraine · Russia · Air Defense
  19. Hegseth puts nearly every Pentagon drone program under one new office A June 29 memo hands a single "drone czar" directive and contracting authority over most US unmanned programs, from small quadcopters to sea robots, as Washington races to close a production gap it is losing on volume. USA · Autonomy · DRPM-UxS
  20. Russia mass-deploys an autonomous AI Molniya strike drone in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine's adviser says Stripped of its control antenna, the new Molniya runs on a camera and an onboard computer, defeating the jamming that is Ukraine's cheapest and most scalable defense. Ukraine · Russia · Autonomy
  21. Shijian-21Pro China's Shijian-21 is a geostationary on-orbit servicing demonstrator that docked with and towed a defunct BeiDou satellite in 2022, making it a prominent dual-use space-debris and counter-space reference system. China · Space · space-ew
  22. SEWIP (AN/SLQ-32)Pro The U.S. Navy's shipboard electronic-warfare backbone — a long-running AN/SLQ-32 modernization program that detects, classifies and, in newer blocks, jams radar-guided anti-ship threats. USA · Space · electronic-warfare
  23. R-330Zh ZhitelPro Russia's R-330Zh Zhitel is a truck-mounted electronic-warfare station built to detect, direction-find and jam GNSS, satellite-phone, cellular and selected radio communications. Russia · Space · electronic-warfare
  24. GSSAPPro GSSAP is the U.S. Space Force's near-geosynchronous space-domain-awareness constellation, using maneuverable "Hornet" satellites to inspect and characterize objects in the GEO belt. USA · Space · space-domain-awareness
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