Alta Ares, a Franco-Ukrainian maker of AI drone interceptors used in Ukraine, raised €50 million to scale production as demand for cheap air defense climbs.
Ukraine's defense ministry says a Brave1-backed interceptor automates 95% of a Shahed intercept, leaving the operator to pick the target and clear the shot.
A Russian drone hit the receiving building of the Holtec-built dry-cask site that freed Ukraine from shipping its nuclear waste to Russia, metres from where spent fuel sits.
The Dancer 4.5.0 matches the speed of Russia's newest Shahed variants and keeps re-engaging after a miss, the gap that has limited cheap drone-on-drone defense.
Ukraine's drone forces say they have wrecked Shahed launchers and logistics at the occupied airfield, hitting Russia's drone campaign at the launch site instead of in flight.
Iran-origin, Russia-built long-range one-way attack drone — the saturation-strike icon of the Ukraine war, fired in mass nightly salvos to exhaust air defenses and strike infrastructure at a cost-exchange ratio that has rewritten the economics of strategic bombardment.