Russian Shahed drones are flying with detached access panels, bent wingtips, and missing nose fairings, indicating systemic assembly failures. Russia's Alabuga drone factory in Tatarstan employs unskilled migrant workers, relies on inferior Chinese components and prioritizes volume over quality.
General Atomics is looking to equip the U.S. Navy’s planned Trump-class battleships / BBG(X), according to company leadership at Sea Air Space 2026. During the initial concept debut of USS Defiant (BBG-1) in December, the Navy plans to arm the battleships with several advanced systems that the American
“In practice, forces are using various improvised solutions—fishing nets, camouflage nets, even soccer nets, along with drills involving small-arms fire at drones”
“What’s pretty notable here is that this is not just about regulating use but also about controlling the entire lifecycle—sales, transport, and storage—of drones,”
This breakthrough in hardware brings fixed-site scanning power to the palm of an operator’s hand. Additionally, the OEM module version can fit in the payload of a UAV for regional scale scanning