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A well-known Ukrainian expert on military radio technologies and consultant to the AFU, Serhiy "Flash" Beskrestnov, has published a series of photos from the downed Russian Gerbera, a decoy UAV that is actively used by the Russian military to overload air defence systems by creating additional decoys during Shahedi attacks.""" Inside the drone's body, they found original production inspection checklists with signatures of workers, dates of completion of stages and technical parts that were left over after assembly.
The Fourth Law (TFL), a Ukrainian defence company, has announced the first round of funding from investors from the EU, the US and Canada and presented its latest development, the TFL-1 autonomy module. This solution allows FPV drones to operate more efficiently in real-world combat conditions, compensating for the weaknesses of classic operator control, especially in the EW zone and GPS signal loss.
US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth has issued sweeping orders to speed up drone production and deployment, calling the drones critical to winning the war against Russia and China. From now on, corps-level commanders will be able to procure, test and use drones on their own, without waiting for months of approvals.
The Turkish company Solid AERO has introduced Talay, the world's first multifunctional maritime UAV that uses the Wing-In-Ground (WIG) effect. Thanks to this technology, the vehicle is able to fly just 3 metres above the sea surface, remaining virtually invisible to most coastal radars.
Amid the growing threat of drone swarms and cheap kamikaze UAVs, French startup Harmattan AI has introduced Gobi, a high-speed interceptor drone that can neutralise enemy UAVs in less than a minute after launch. It is a compact (38×38×28 cm) and lightweight (less than 2 kg) device that launches without delay and hits the target with a direct kinetic strike. Its speed reaches 250 km/h and the impact energy exceeds 4,500 J, which is enough to disable even manoeuvrable and armoured drones.
In Kyiv, several Russian Gerber drones with a non-standard configuration - cameras on a hanger, a CRPA antenna and a radio modem - were shot down. This was brought to the attention of a well-known Ukrainian radio technology expert, Serhiy "Flash" Beskrestnov, who stated that a radio repeater for Russian UAVs was likely to be located near the capital.
In Denmark, in the presence of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Defence Minister Rustem Umerov and Swift Beat CEO Eric Schmidt signed a memorandum of strategic partnership. The goal is to scale up the production of unmanned systems and prioritise the supply of modern drones to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
DeViro's latest Bulava strike and reconnaissance drone is successfully performing combat missions at the front and deep in the rear of the occupiers. According to the Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, this system has an advantage over the Russian Lancet.
Russia has presented its modification of the Iranian Shahed-238 drone with a turbojet engine, which has probably already been used during the attacks on Kyiv.
The Verkhovna Rada is considering the possibility of temporarily restricting mobile internet in certain parts of Ukraine during the Shahed attacks to make it harder for enemy drones to navigate.
Ukraine's Volyniak hexacopter, which has been destroying Russian equipment since the start of the full-scale war, has now been officially approved for use by the Defence Forces.
The French Ministry of the Armed Forces has approached Renault with a proposal to join the production of drones in Ukraine as part of defence cooperation with an unnamed French military company. Renault confirmed: "we have been approached, we have talked, but there is no official decision yet - we are waiting for details."
Volunteer Yuriy Biryukov reported the creation of a prototype of a new generation of enemy drone detector capable of not only detecting radio signals but also receiving video feeds from Russian army FPV drones. This is a significant technological step up from the previously known developments called Tsukorok, Vanilla Tsukorok and Aspirin-2.
Russia is trying to conceal the losses of strategic aviation after a large-scale SBU attack by replacing destroyed bombers on satellite images and downplaying the losses.
The Montenegrin government has approved the launch of a drone production project in cooperation with US companies. The first batch is to be delivered to Ukraine.
