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Turkey’s Bayraktar Kizilelma unmanned fighter scored the first recorded beyond visual range air-to-air kill by a jet-powered UAV during a Black Sea test on 30 November 2025. In the test conducted with the participation of two F-16 fighter jets of the Turkish Air Force, KIZILELMA locked onto the target F-16 using the national AESA Radar MURAD, and achieved a direct hit in its simulated fire test with the national air-to-air missile GÖKDOĞAN. Continue reading
China may have just found a way to take aim at Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite constellation: a massive swarm of special signal-jamming drones. Researchers at Zhejiang University and the Beijing Institute of Technology modelled how roughly 1,000 to 2,000 coordinated jammers could overwhelm the satellite network. Continue reading
Serhii Sternenko, the leader of a volunteer organisation specialising in donating drones to Ukrainian units, said on Sunday that the Sting — a locally built interceptor drone — successfully destroyed several jet-powered attack drones. Continue reading
Project Flytrap 4.5 brings soldiers, industry and technology together in Germany to push the limits of counter-drone solutions to defend NATO’s eastern flank. Continue reading
Quantum Systems has tripled its valuation and raised €180 million in a Series C Extension led by Balderton Capital. This follows its €160 million Series C in May this year, bringing the total amount secured in 2025 to €340 million, which marks the largest private capital raise in Europe’s dual-use sector. This puts the company’s valuation above €3 billion. Continue reading
A U.S. military plane soared over Florida’s Eglin Air Force Base earlier this month and released a drone made by the defence tech giant Anduril Industries to test whether it could take flight and conduct surveillance. The drone – a winged model known as Altius – nosedived 8,000 feet into the ground, according to an Air Force test summary, reported here for the first time. Continue reading
Iran has put into service new booby-traps capable of destroying helicopters and drones. The Jaljaleh anti-drone mine is capable of shooting down airborne targets at an altitude of up to 350 meters. Continue reading
– Thales is giving forces a new edge in electromagnetic warfare (EW) with two new systems built to accelerate radar detection and AI analysis, helping operators act faster across air, land, and sea. The innovations aim to simplify complex intelligence workflows while enabling more precise responses to threats in multi-domain operations. Continue reading