• The Hornet Carousel: Why Quantity Matters - July 2026 - link;

• Ukraine’s Black Sea and Sea of Azov Campaign. Operation MoLoChKa - July 2026 - link - *free;

• Ukraine’s Deep-Strike and Middle-Strike Missions: Who Chooses the Targets? - June-July 2026 - link;

• Ukraine’s Behemoth Drone Strikes the Chonhar Bridge - June 2026 - link - *free;

• How Middle-Strike Drones Are Destroying Russian Logistics - June 2026 - link;

• Hornet or Martian-2, Analyzed by Russians: Technical Characteristics of an “Unjammable” Drone - June 2026 - link - *free;

• Ukraine’s Use of Aerostats for Middle-Strike Campaign - June 2026 - link;

• Russian Countermeasures Against Hornet Drones - June 2026 - link;

• Rubikon’s Experience Against Hornet Drones - June 2026 - link;

• Ukraine’s FPV Drone Hits Target at 103 km: A New Record - June 2026 - link - *free;

• Russians Alarmed by Ukraine’s Mysterious “Martian” Drone - May 2026 - link.

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• Brave1 Launches Matchmaking Between Ukrainian and NATO Companies - March 2026 - link

• Drone Warfare Lessons for NATO: The Hedgehog-2025 Exercise - February 2026 - link

• The War in Ukraine and NATO Defence Innovation - February 2026 - link - *free

• PURL Initiative - November 2025 - link - *free

• The Next Drone Threat Comes from the Sea: Is NATO Ready? - October 2025 - link - *free

• NATO sees a major opportunity for joint production and innovation with Ukraine - October 2025 - link

• DELTA system became the primary operational platform during NATO’s REPMUS 2025 - September-October 2025 - link

• 30th Ramstein meeting - pledges - September 2025 - link - *free

• How NATO’s Security Assistance and Training Mission Supports Ukraine - September, 2025 - link - *free

• Start of PURL - August 2025 - link - *free

• “Priority Ukraine Requirements List” (PURL) created - July 2025 - link - *free

• 29th Ramstein meeting - July 2025 - link

• NATO limits public disclosure of military aid for Ukraine - June 2025 - link

• NATO and Conventional Arms Control: Military Transfers to Ukraine - January 2025 - link - *free

• Ukrainian Drones in Germany: Frontline Robotics-Quantum Systems Joint Venture - April 2026 - link

• Pan-European anti-ballistic shield - Project Freya by Fire Point - April 2026 - link - *free

• “Ukrainian Housewives with 3D Printers”: CEO of Rheinmetall on Ukraine’s Drone Producers - March 2026 - link - *free;

• Ukrainian Drone Tech + German Automation: Quantum Frontline Industries - December 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine and the Netherlands to launch joint drone manufacturing - December 2025 - link

• Ukraine and Greece Launch Naval Drone Production - November 2025 - link

• Ukraine–France Strategic Agreement: Rafale and SAMP/T - November 2025 - link

• Ukraine Picks the Gripen - October 2025 - link - *free

• Launch of Brave-Norway Program - October 2025 - link

• UK-Ukraine: LYRA, OCTOPUS - October 2025 - link

• Ukraine and Europe: Expertise Exchange in Counter-Drone Measures - September-October 2025 - link

• European Drone Wall & Ukraine’s Drone Line - September 2025 - link

• Bayraktar TB2 Drones and Ukraine-Türkiye Strategic Defence Partnership - September, 2025 - link - *free

• 30th Ramstein meeting - pledges - September 2025 - link

• Fire Point will establish a plant in Denmark to produce solid fuel for its missiles - September 2025 - link

• Ukrainian defense enterprises are set to receive around €1.4 billion in investments under the “Danish model.” - August 2025 - link

• Start of PURL - August 2025 - link - *free

• BraveTech EU initiative - July 2025 - link

• Ukraine launches joint drone production with European allies - June 2025 - link - *free

• Germany’s role in supplying military aid to Ukraine - April 2025 - link - *free

• UK-Ukraine defence technology production hub - April 2025 - link

• Ukrainian Stetman signed an agreement with Swedish ReQuTech for licensed mass production of satellite terminals in Ukraine - April 2025 - link

• European allies discuss the deployment of peacekeeping troops to Ukraine - February 2025 - link

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• “Our Goal Is to Replace All UAV Operators”: Ukraine’s Swarmer on Responsibility in Swarm Tech - April 2026 - link - *free

• Mass Shooting Incident in Ukraine - April 2026 - link - *free

• Drones Against Civilians: How Russia Uses UAVs to Kill and Terrorize - January 2026 - link - *free

• Proliferation and Control of Arms and Ammunition in Wartime Ukraine: SAS Report - December 2025 - link

• Improvised weapons production in Ukraine and Russia: FPV drones (my presentation at UNIDIR) - December 2025 - link - *free

• Crime by Drone: a New Paradigm for Organized Crime (report by GI-TOC) - October 2025 - link - *free

• Russian snipers are using Canadian rifles despite sanctions. - October-November 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine’s parliament adopted a draft law, which improves the legal regime for trophy weapons - October 2025 - link

• Russia no longer considers itself bound by a moratorium on the deployment of nuclear-capable intermediate-range missiles - September 2025 - link - *free

• Spanish firm supplied a used CNC forging machine to the Russian company - July 2025 - link - *free

• “Deadly Drones: Civilians at Risk From Short-Range Drones in Frontline Areas of Ukraine” - June 2025 - link

• Russian defense companies imported over $10 million worth of metalworking tools from Israel - April 2025 - link - *free

• Investigation: We tried to buy American chips as a Russian defense manufacturer — and it worked - March 2025 - link

• Future trends in arms trafficking from the Ukraine conflict - GI-TOC report - February 2025 - link - *free

• NATO and Conventional Arms Control: Military Transfers to Ukraine - January 2025 - link - *free

• Russian snipers continue to receive Western rifles and ammunition every year - December 2024 - link - *free

• Russian producers of Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile use Western components - December 2024 - link - *free

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• Can Ukraine Get Rid of Chinese Cameras? - April 2026 - link

• Fiber Optics Are Getting More Expensive — So Are Drones - April 2026 - link

• Thermal Imaging Cameras in Ukraine’s Interceptor Drones: Odd Systems - March 2026 - link - *free

• Components of Freedom: How Ukraine Localizes Drone Component Production - December 2025 - link

• Ukraine doubles down on weapons-component production - December 2025 - link

• FPV Drone Localization in Ukraine - August 2025 - link - *free

• Ukrspecsystems Launches Store for Its Own Drone Components - May 2025 - link

• Tactical Medicine on a Smartphone: LifesaverSIM Medical Simulator - April 2026 - link - *free

• Training Drone Operators in Wartime Ukraine: Dronarium Academy - April 2026 - link - *free

• Why Ukraine Needs Private Military Companies, and What Options Exist - March - April 2026 - link

• Drone Piloting Should be as Remote and Protected as Possible: 412 Nemesis Brigade - March 2026 - link;

• Importance of Operator Training for Interceptor Drones: Kruk Drones UAV Training Center - March 2026 - link - *free;

• What Solutions Do Frontline Drone Workshops Need? - December 2025 - link

• Ukraine needs more chief designers in defence tech - December 2025 - link

• Ukrainian Servicemen Should Start Training Other Armies - October 2025 - link

• (Un)Manned Warfare: 80% of Drone Success Depends on Pilot Skill - October 2025 - link - *free

• A new facility built by Norway to train Ukrainian military personnel has opened in Poland - September-October 2025 - link

• How the Ukrainian FPV Drone Workshop Operates on the Frontline - March 2025 - link - *free

• War in the Sky: How the Ukrainian Drone Fight Club Trains Future UAV Operators - January 2025 - link - *free

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• Pentagon Considers Redirecting Military Aid from Ukraine to the Middle East - March 2026 - link

• Starlink Issue Resolved. New Challenges Ahead - February 2026 - link - *free;

• Ukraine-U.S. Partnership in the Unmanned Tech Sector - February 2026 - link - *free

• Is the Starlink Whitelist an Effective Solution? - January-February 2026 - link

• Ukraine Works with SpaceX to Limit Russian Use of Starlink - January-February 2026 - link - *free

• Brave1 Dataroom: Brave1 and Palantir Collect Data for Interceptor Drones - January 2026 - link

• Canada’s Military Assistance to Ukraine in 2025: Key Trends - December 2025 - external link (NATO Association of Canada) - December 2025 - *free

• 28-point Russia-US peace plan - November 2025 - link

• The Ukrainian startup OSIRIS AI has secured investment from the U.S. - November 2025 - link

• The Pentagon gave the green light to proceed with supplying Ukraine with Tomahawks - October 2025 - link - *free

• US and Tomahawks - October 2025 - link - *free

• Drones Define the Battlefield. Is Canada Ready? - October 2025 - external link (Canadian Defence Review) - *free

• Discussions about Tomahawks are still ongoing - October 2025 - link - *free

• U.S. will provide Ukraine with intelligence for long-range missile strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure - September-October 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine-U.S. Drone Deal - September-October 2025 - link

• American Shield AI together with Ukrainian firm Iron Belly developed a long-range strike drone - September 2025 - link

• Global Starlink Outage: How Important This Is for Ukraine - September, 2025 - link

• ERAM for Ukraine - August 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine offered to purchase $100 billion worth of U.S. weapons - August 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine and the Future of Drones: U.S. Interest in Ukrainian Systems - August, 2025 - link - *free

• Canada’s Drone Blind Spot, and What It Can Learn from Ukraine - July, 2025 - link - *free

• Deployment of 17 Patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine (announcement by Trump) - July 2025 - link - *free

• U.S. military supplies to Ukraine resumed after a pause - July 2025 - link - *free

• On July 1, the Pentagon halted shipments of some air defense missiles - July 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine-US: agreement on the joint production of drones - July 2025 - link

• Trump administration is redirecting anti-drone technology intended for Ukraine to U.S. forces - June 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine’s requests to directly purchase more Patriot systems and missiles from the US - May 2025 - link - *free

• US-Ukraine minerals deal agreement signed - April 2025 - link - *free

• The United States reached separate deals with Ukraine and Russia to pause their attacks at sea and against energy targets. - March 2025 - link

• Two Ukrainian Companies Selected to Develop Drones for the US Army in Artemis Program - March 2025 - link - *free

• The United States resumed the supplies of military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine - March 2025 - link - *free

• US-Ukraine meeting in Saudi Arabia - March 2025 - link

• US-Ukraine minerals deal debates - February 2025 - link

• What the Pentagon might learn from Ukraine about fielding new tech - February 2025 - link

• Canada’s Military Assistance to Ukraine in 2024 - December 2024 - link - *free

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• Ukrainian and Russian Ground Robots Have Already Met in Combat: Ratel Robotics - April 2026 - link - *free

• Ground Drones in 2026: What to Expect - February 2026 - link - *free

• Ground Drones as Mini-Artillery Systems: DevDroid - January 2026 - link

• Russians are using ground drones to facilitate river crossings - December 2025 - link

• “Iron Brothers-in-Arms”: Key Trends in Ukraine’s Ground Robotics - September 2025 - link - *free

• Ground Drones as Bombs: How Ukraine Is Deploying UGVs on the Battlefield - August 2025 - link

• Robots Over Soldiers? The Price of War Priorities - August 2025 - link

• Ground Drones in Ukraine: From Mine-Laying to Air Defense - July-August 2025 - link

• TerMIT Drone and the Future of Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Ukraine - July 2025 - link - *free

• First Confirmed Successful Assault by Unmanned Systems: No Infantry, No Losses - July 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine’s Military Marketplace: Robotic Complexes - May 2025 - link - *free

• Ukrainian government agencies are massively contracting ground drones - April 2025 - link

• Russia accelerates ground drone development and unveils humanoid robot project - April 2025 - link

• Ukraine is Robotizing Its Military: How an Army of 15,000 Ground Drones Will Replace Soldiers on the Frontline - April 2025 - link

• “The enemy doesn’t understand what it is.” What Ukrainian robots, listed in the NATO catalog and significantly cheaper than Western counterparts, are doing on the frontlines - January 2025 - link - *free

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• Ukraine’s DELTA became the primary operational platform for multinational forces during NATO’s REPMUS 2025 exercise in Portugal - October 2025 - link

• DELTA System — From Civic Initiative to Total Battlefield Control - September 2025 - link - *free

• DELTA, UAVs, and Real Combat: Lessons from Ukraine for Allies - August 2025 - link

• DELTA will be implemented at all levels of command within Ukraine’s Defense Forces - August 2025 - link

• Combat Software in the Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - June 2025 - link - *free

• DELTA and Avengers are among the most advanced warfare software systems - June 2025 - link

• DELTA system is presented at the London Defence Conference - May 2025 - link

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Ukraine’s defence ecosystem includes over 900 enterprises. Every such facility is considered a legitimate target by Russia, and many of them have been attacked multiple times.

I have decided to dedicate one of my final posts of 2025 to the Ukrainian defence industry. This year, I conducted several insightful interviews and included comments from many manufacturers, and I hope to feature even more in the coming year.

Below is a list of relevant articles and sections that highlight the innovations Ukrainian manufacturers introduced in 2025 and the conditions under which they operated.

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• Ukraine Seeks Local Developers of Mesh Modems - April - May 2026 - link;

• 5 Main Problems of Ukraine’s Defence Tech - March - April 2026 - link

• Ukrainian Drone Tech + German Automation: Quantum Frontline Industries - December 2025 - link - *free

• STING Interceptor Shots Down Jet-Powered Shahed (comments from Wild Hornets + Odd Systems + The Fourth Law) - December 2025 - link - *free

• Ukrspecsystems has secured a location at an airfield in the United Kingdom - December 2025 - link

• Drone Customization to Military Units’ Needs: The Example of TAF Industries - November 2025 - link

• Ukraine Starts Mass Production of Domestic Mavics - November 2025 - link - *free

• STING Interceptor Drone by Wild Hornets: When Civil Society Powers Defence - October 2025 - link - *free

• Inside Fire Point: Drones, Missiles and Politics: summary of the interview - October 2025 - link

• “We Can Already Turn the Cheapest FPV into a Super-Smart Drone”: Sine. Engineering - October 2025 - link

• “We Can Produce 150,000 FPVs per Month”: Ukrainian TAF Industries - October, 2025 - link - *free

• 10 Years of Ukrainian Defense Tech: Summary of the Report - October, 2025 - link

• Good Radios Save Lives: HIMERA Tactical Communications in Ukraine - October 2025 - link - *free

• Security Risks Drive Force Relocation — New Tech Force in UA Survey - October 2025 - link

• Successful Interceptors and Jam-Resistant FPVs: United Unmanned Systems - September-October 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine’s Pursuit of Drone Autonomy: NORDA Dynamics - October, 2025 - link - *free

• Autonomous Technologies in Ukraine: New Developments (Amazing Drones, Swarmer, The Fourth Law) - September 2025 - link

• HIMERA Walkie-Talkies for Secure Military Communication - September, 2025 - link

• “Most of the Defense Innovations are Invented by Soldiers”: Summary of the Interview with Ukrainian Armor - September 2025 - link

• Game Changer: How Will Opening Drone Exports Affect Ukrainian UAV Manufacturers? - September 2025 - link

• War-Driven: The Rise of Ukrainian Defence Tech and the Private Industry Behind It - August 2025 - link

• Trypillian: Inside the British-Ukrainian Defence-Tech Startup - August 2025 - link

• Osa FPV Drones and Operation Spiderweb (First Contact) - August 2025 - link

• FPV Drone Localization in Ukraine - August 2025 - link - *free

• 50,000 FPV Drones Monthly and 10x Revenue Growth: Ukraine’s “General Chereshnya” - July 2025 - link

• TerMIT Drone and the Future of Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Ukraine (Tencore) - July 2025 - link - *free

• FPV Drone with Mortar Round: Innovation from Ukrainian Armor - July 2025 - link

• Last Mile automatic guidance modules by TAF Drones - June-July 2025 - link - *free

• Why Ukraine’s Arms Producers Are Fleeing Abroad? - June 2025 - link

• Seeing through enemy eyes: Ukraine developed a drone video signal detector: Chuyka - June 2025 - link

• GOR: Top-Rated Reconnaissance Drone by Airlogix - June 2025 - link - *free

• Why Ukrainian Arms Manufacturers Need the Next Level of Investment Maturity - May 2025 - link

• Ukroboronprom signs agreements with Rheinmetall, Escribano Mechanical & Engineering - May 2025 - link

• Drone Space Labs: Ukrainian UAV Producer - May 2025 - link - *free

• Ukrspecsystems Launches Store for Its Own Drone Components - May 2025 - link

• Ukraine’s Military Marketplace: Robotic Complexes (ground drones) - May 2025 - link - *free

• Fiber-Optic Drones: Challenges Faced by Ukrainian Manufacturers - May 2025 - link

• Vyriy Drone CEO on Ukraine’s FPV production trends, localization, and decentralized procurement - May 2025 - link

• “All known Ukrainian drone manufacturers are already standing at booths under foreign flags”: Interview with the Founder of Octava Defence - April-May 2025 - link

• The first 1,000 FPV drones assembled exclusively from local components - Vyriy Drone - March 2025 - link

• The transformation of Ukraine’s arms industry amid war with Russia - March 2025 - link

• Situation with the ammunition production in Ukraine: Ukrainian Armor - March 2025 - link

• Vyriy Drone Produces Up to 20,000 FPV Drones Per Month – How They Became a Top-3 Manufacturer in Ukraine Using Toyota’s Approach - February-March 2025 - link

• How Ukraine’s TAF Drones produces 40,000 FPV drones per month - December, 2024 - link - *free

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The largest category of unmanned systems in the Russia–Ukraine war is aerial vehicles, and in 2025, we have seen some major cases of their highly effective use. Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb was one of the most prominent examples of FPV drones being used to destroy a significant number of Russia’s strategic fighter jets deep in the enemy’s rear.

This list of my previous articles on UAVs contains resources on FPV drones, medium-strike platforms, reconnaissance drones, fiber-optic drones, mothership (carrier) drones, and other types.

It does not include deep-strike systems, which are covered in a separate list: Deep Strike Capabilities.

Also, for more information on interceptor drones, check the list Air Defence and Counter-UAS.

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• Russians Alarmed by Ukraine’s Mysterious “Martian” Drone - April - May 2026 - link;

• Ukraine Introduces Universal Ground Control Station for Fiber-Optic FPVs - April 2026 - link;

• Hell’s Kitchen: Drone Munitions in Ukraine - April 2026 - link - *free;

• Russian Drone Adaptions: Future Trends - March 2026 - link - *free;

• Depth Ownership in Ukraine’s Drone Warfare - February 2026 - link;

• “Baba Yaga” Drones in Ukraine: Key Trends - February 2026 - link - *free;

• Mesh Networks on Russian Drones and Ways of Countering Them - February 2026 - link;

• Russia’s Use of LTE Networks to Control FPV Drones - February 2026 - link;

• Drone Warfare Lessons for NATO: The Hedgehog-2025 Exercise - February 2026 - link;

• Is the Starlink Whitelist an Effective Solution? - February 2026 - link

• Russia’s Gerbera Drones as FPV Carriers - February 2026 - link

• Integration of Starlink Terminals into Russian Molniya UAVs - January 2026 - link - *free

• Ukrainian Deftech Forecasts for 2026: Insights from Industry - January 2026 - link

• Operation Spiderweb: WSJ reporting - January 2026 - link

• Drone Warfare in Ukraine: Key Trends of 2025 - December 2025 - link - *free

• What Solutions Do Frontline Drone Workshops Need? - December 2025 - link

• Russia Tests SIM Cards for Drones in Kazakhstan and Türkiye: Molfar Intelligence Institute - December 2025 - link

• Can Atreyd’s Drone Wall Protect Ukraine? - November, 2025 - link

• Ukraine Starts Mass Production of Domestic Mavics - November 2025 - link - *free

• Russia’s Rubikon: What Drives Its Success in Drone Warfare - November 2025 - link

• How Ukraine is Developing “Middlestrike” Drones - October 2025 - link

• (Un)Manned Warfare: 80% of Drone Success Depends on Pilot Skill - October 2025 - link - *free

• “We Can Produce 150,000 FPVs per Month”: Ukrainian TAF Industries - October, 2025 - link - *free

• “We Can Already Turn the Cheapest FPV into a Super-Smart Drone”: Sine.Engineering - October 2025 - link

• Bayraktar TB2 Drones and Ukraine-Türkiye Strategic Defence Partnership - September 2025 - link - *free

• How Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb Affected Russia’s Strategic Bomber Fleet - September 2025 - link

• Quantum Systems and Recce-Strike in Ukraine’s Drone Warfare - September 2025 - link - *free

• Technology Nobody Believed In (Fiber-Optic Drones) - August 2025 - external link (Defence Procurement International - pages 104-107) - *free

• Ukraine and the Future of Drones: U.S. Interest in Ukrainian Systems - August 2025 - link - *free

• Osa FPV Drones and Operation Spiderweb - August 2025 - link

• RUSI Warns: Over-Reliance on Drones Won’t Win Future Battles - August 2025 - link

• FPV Drone Localization in Ukraine - August 2025 - link - *free

• Military Communications and Drones - August, 2025 - link - *free

• Russia’s DAN’-M drones - July-August, 2025 - link

• FPV Drone with Mortar Round: Innovation from Ukrainian Armor - July 2025 - link

• Ukraine Scales Up Cheap Machine-Vision Drones - July 2025 - link

• A First Point View: Examining Ukraine’s Drone Industry - July 2025 - link - *free

• Laser Tech: The Ukrainian Armed Forces Now Have a Drone with Laser Target Designation - July 2025 - link

• Russian Solar FPVs and Chernika Drones - June-July 2025 - link

• How Will the Military Operate Without the Flagship Chinese Drone DJI Mavic 3 — and Where Are the Ukrainian Alternatives? - June 2025 - link

• FPV Drone with Wings: How Unmanned Systems Forces Operate “Darts” Kamikaze Drones - June 2025 - link

• Reforms of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces: Vision of Robert “Madyar” Brovdi - June 2025 - link - *free

• “American drones turned out to be junk”: interview with the Russian drone producer - June 2025 - link

• GOR: Top-Rated Reconnaissance Drone by Airlogix - June 2025 - link - *free

• Drone warfare in Ukraine: operation Spiderweb - June 2025 - link - *free

• Drone Carriers: A Look at Ukrainian and Russian Practices - May 2025 - link

• Ukrainian FPV Drones with Machine Vision: Why Haven’t They Proven Themselves on the Battlefield Yet? - May 2025 - link - *free

• “We go through the same procedures as our Ukrainian colleagues”: interview with the Managing Director of Quantum Systems operating in Ukraine - May 2025 - link

• Fiber-Optic Drones: Challenges Faced by Ukrainian Manufacturers - May 2025 - link

• The Drone Line project: what is it, and can five units stop the Russian advance? - April-May 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine’s Drone Ecosystem and the Defence of Europe: summary of the report - April 2025 - link - *free

• Accuracy of Ukrainian and Russian fiber-optic drones - April 2025 - link - *free

• The Vampire: a drone that terrifies Russians - April 2025 - link

• Russia’s fiber-optic drone swarm control system Cerberus - April 2025 - link

• Ukraine’s first fiber-optic ground robotic systems: advantages and challenges - April 2025 - link

• Ukrainian drones are responsible for up to 75% of Moscow’s battlefield losses - April 2025 - link - *free

• How the Ukrainian FPV Drone Workshop Operates on the Frontline - March 2025 - link - *free

• Challenges for the Fiber-Optic Drone Production in Ukraine - March 2025 - link

• Ukraine Will Procure All Domestically Produced FPV Drones: What’s Behind the Plan to Produce 4.5 Million UAVs? - March 2025 - link

• An aerial drone capable of carrying other UAVs has been developed in Ukraine - March 2025 - link

• UAS SETH – A New Ukrainian Kamikaze Drone - March 2025 - link

• The development of the Ukrainian analog of the “Lancet” drone has been completed - February 2025 - link

• Russia’s Primary Target: A Report from the Quantum Systems Drone Factory in Kyiv - February 2025 - link

• Ukraine launches the revolutionary Drone Line project - February 2025 - link - *free

• Fiber-optic drones: key developments on both sides - February 2025 - link

• What is the undeniable advantage of Ukrainian reconnaissance UAVs Furiya? Interview with the developer- February 2025 - link

• Don’t underestimate the importance of decoy drones: an interview with a Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance expert on Russian drone tactics - January 2025 - link - *free

• Ukrainians Train on American Drone That Defeats Russian Jamming - January 2025 - link - *free

• A weapon entirely immune to jamming: How Ukraine is rolling out production of fibre-optic drones - January 2025 - link - *free

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After witnessing the first successful strike on a Russian submarine by Ukraine’s Sea Baby drones, it is time to refresh our memory on everything that has happened in the naval drone sector this year.

Below is a curated list of my earlier posts on naval drones published in Ukraine’s Arms Monitor.

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• Ukraine Shoots Down Russian Shahed from an Unmanned Boat - April 2026 - link;

• Small and Agile Systems: The Role of River and Naval Drones in Ukraine - February 2026 - link

• Ukraine’s UUV strike against a Russian submarine - December 2025 - link

• Ukraine and Greece Launch Naval Drone Production - November 2025 - link

• The Next Drone Threat Comes from the Sea: Is NATO Ready? - October 2025 - link - *free

• Ukrainian kamikaze boat carried multiple fiber-optic FPV drones - October 2025 - link

• Ukrainian Magura drone was discovered in Turkiye - September-October, 2025 - link

• Naval Drone Export: What Ukraine Can Offer (TOLOKA, MAGURA and SEA BABY drones) - September 2025 - link

• Russian Fibre-Optic Naval Drone: What We Know So Far - September 2025 - link

• Russia’s Naval Vehicles: Is NATO Ready for Them? - July-August 2025 - link

• Russia: Naval Affairs - July 2025 - link- *free

• Russia invests in maritime drone production - July 2025 - link

• Seawolf naval drone for multi-role operations in asymmetric warfare: an introduction - May 2025 - link - *free

• Alligator-9: Ukraine’s naval drone destroys enemy robot drones with laser fire - April 2025 - link - *free

• Russia’s new defense thwarts Ukraine’s naval drone strikes - April 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine used unmanned torpedo boats in the Black Sea - March 2025 - link - *free

• The developers of the Toloka underwater drone showed its smallest version, the TLK-150. What are its characteristics and capabilities? - February 2025 - link

• Russia deploys new tactic to counter Ukrainian naval drones in the Black Sea - February 2025 - link

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One of the most interesting sections in my newsletter is air defence—especially counter-drone measures. This year has brought plenty of innovations. Russia has intensified its drone and missile attacks against Ukraine: in September, it launched its largest combined strike since the start of the war, firing a total of 823 projectiles at Ukraine.

In response, Ukraine has continued developing its layered air-defence system, combining multiple elements: traditional surface-to-air systems, aviation, mobile fire teams, and the standout capability of this year—interceptor drones.

Below is a list of relevant articles and sections from my newsletter.

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Air Defence

• Ukrainian EW Reportedly Jams Russian Ballistic Missiles - April-May 2026 - link

• Private Air Defence in Ukraine: New Results - April-May 2026 - link

• Ukraine Plans to Launch Its Air Defence System by 2027 - April 2026 - link - *free

• Ukraine’s Private Air Defence Shows First Results - March - April, 2026 - link - *free

• Ukraine Shoots Down Russian Shahed from an Unmanned Boat - April 2026 - link;

• Drone warfare in Ukraine: war in the Middle East and Ukraine’s expertise - March 2026 - link - *free

• Mirage 2000-5 and Its Core Functions in Ukraine - January-February 2026 - link

• Ukrainian F-16 Pilot on the Realities of the Air War - January-February 2026 - link

• STING Interceptor Shots Down Jet-Powered Shahed - December 2025 - link - *free

• We Expect More from Electronic Warfare Than It Can Actually Deliver - December 2025 - link

• Ukraine–France Strategic Agreement: Rafale and SAMP/T - November 2025 - link

• PURL Initiative and Air Defence - November 2025 - link - *free

• Why SAMP/T Might Outperform Patriot - November 2025 - link - *free

• Russia unveiled its interceptor drone - October-November 2025 - link - *free

• No Air Defence System Can Intercept 100% of Targets: Summary of the Interview - October 2025 - link

• Patriot delivery from Israel - September 2025 - link - *free

• Russia’s Massed Strikes: The Strategy of Coercion by Salvo - September 2025 - link

• How Drones Are Becoming Part of Ukraine’s Air and Missile Defense - June 2025 - link

• Israel quietly supplied Ukraine with Patriot air defense systems - June 2025 - link - *free

• Sky Sentinel, autonomous, AI-controlled air-defense turret - June 2025 - link

• ‘FrankenSAM’, a surface-to-air missile system - March 2025 - link

• Ukraine’s ground-based air defence: evolution, resilience and pressure - February-March 2025 - link

Counter-UAS

• Ukraine’s Private Air Defence Downs a Jet-Powered Shahed - April 2026 - link

• How Privately Owned EW Systems Jam Friendly Drones - April 2026 - link

• P1-SUN: Ukrainian Interceptor Drone by SkyFall - March 2026 - link

• Ukrainian Drone Interceptors Are Becoming a Global Currency - March 2026 - link - *free

• Mesh Networks and EW Trends in Ukraine - March 2026 - link - *free

• Challenges Faced by Ukraine’s Air Defence Units - February 2026 - link

• Ukraine Works with SpaceX to Limit Russian Use of Starlink - January 2026 - link - *free

• Ukraine Aims to Create an Anti-Shahed Shield - January 2026 - link

• Ukrainian Piranha Tech introduced solutions designed to protect cities from drones - October 2025 - link

• Ukraine’s Mobile Fire Groups Turn to Helicopters to Counter Shaheds - October 2025 - link

• Three European companies are testing their interceptor drones in Ukraine as part of the NATO Innovation Challenge - October 2025 - link

• STING Interceptor Drone by Wild Hornets: When Civil Society Powers Defence - October 2025 - link - *free

• Successful Interceptors and Jam-Resistant FPVs: United Unmanned Systems - September-October 2025 - link - *free

• The Ukrainian Zvook developed a new system designed to counter FPV drones - September-October 2025 - link

• Cost of anti-Shahed interceptors - September-October 2025 - link

• Ukraine and Europe: Expertise Exchange in Counter-Drone Measures - September-October 2025 - link

• European Drone Wall & Ukraine’s Drone Line - September 2025 - link

• Ukraine’s Interceptor Drones Reach New Milestones - September 2025 - link

• Ukrainian MaXon is developing a counter-drone air defense system - August 2025 - link

• Is Ukrainian Electronic Warfare Keeping Up With Russian Drones? - August 2025 - link

• Search for the Best Counter-Shahed Tech Continues - July 2025 - link - *free

• Protecting Cities from Russian FPV Drones: Key Challenges - July 2025 - link

• Danish Terma Partners with Ukraine’s Odd Systems to create air defence system - July 2025 - link

• Stopping Shaheds: Ukraine’s Solutions - July, 2025 - link - *free

• MITLA single-use net launcher - counter-drone tool - July 2025 - link

• Ukraine’s Anti-Shahed Solutions - June-July 2025 - link

• Russia’s drone attacks have become more complex. What does Ukraine need to repel them? - May 2025 - link - *free

• Rising Trend: Ukraine’s Interceptor Drones in Action - May 2025 - link

• “Our goal is to blind the Russians”: What’s known about Ukrainian drones used to shoot down Russian reconnaissance UAVs - April 2025 - link - *free

• “Shahed” Killer: Ukraine’s new interceptor drone - April 2025 - link

• Ukraine Expands Its Air Defense Drone Capabilities - April 2025 - link - *free

• Russians Are Now Equipping Their Zala Drones with Anti-Air Defense Evasion Systems: How It Works in Practice - March 2025 - link

• “Downing Shaheds Is a Priority”: An Interview with the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - March 2025 - link

• Russian forces deploy entire anti-drone tunnels in Ukraine - February 2025 - link

• In 2024, Ukrainian drone and electronic warfare (EW) manufacturers were operating at only 37% capacity. What solutions are on the table? - February 2025 - link

• Atlas EW system - January-February 2025 - link

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Check other lists in the Topic Navigator.

A list of selected posts and sections in Ukraine’s Arms Monitor related to autonomous systems and AI-enabled defence technologies in Ukraine and Russia.

Check the Topic Navigator for more thematic lists, such as “Deep Strike Capabilities,” “Laser Tech”, “Artillery Systems and Ammunition,” “Demining,” “Aviation,” and others.

• “Our Goal Is to Replace All UAV Operators”: Ukraine’s Swarmer on Responsibility in Swarm Tech - April 2026 - link - *free

• Ukraine Bets on AI to Gain a Technological Edge - April 2026 - link - *free

• The Fourth Law: Autonomy for Every Drone - January 2026 - link - *free

• AI-Enabled Drone Bumblebee and Pasika Swarming Technology — NYT report - January 2026 - link

• From Idea to a Working AI Model for FPV Drones - December 2025 - link

• Russians Train Their AI for Better Solutions: Summary of Interview with Serhiy FLASH - November 2025 - link

• Drone Warfare in Ukraine: The Interplay of High- and Low-Tech Solutions - November 2025 - link - *free

• CEO of Swarmer on $15M Investments and Drone Autonomy: summary of the interview - November 2025 - link

• “We Can Already Turn the Cheapest FPV into a Super-Smart Drone”: Sine.Engineering - October 2025 - link

• Ukraine’s Pursuit of Drone Autonomy: NORDA Dynamics - October 2025 - link - *free

• Autonomous Technologies in Ukraine: New Developments (Amazing Drones, Swarmer, The Fourth Law) - September 2025 - link

• Is Ukraine Leading Drone Swarm Warfare? - September 2025 - link - *free

• AI in Ukrainian Weapons - August 2025 - link

• Ukraine Launches AI-Factory for Civilian and Defense Purposes - August 2024 - link

• Ukraine’s AI-Powered Drones: Progress Underway, Challenges Remain - July-August 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine Scales Up Cheap Machine-Vision Drones - July 2025 - link

• Last Mile automatic guidance modules by TAF Drones - June-July 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine created a drone that can detect mines using special equipment and artificial intelligence - June-July 2025 - link

• Russia uses Shahed drones with AI targeting for the first time in Ukraine - June 2025 - link

• Sky Sentinel, Ukraine’s autonomous, AI-controlled air-defense turret - June 2025 - link

• Ukrainian FPV Drones with Machine Vision: Why Haven’t They Proven Themselves on the Battlefield Yet? - May 2025 - link - *free

• Russian Technologies: Drone Swarms and More Efficient Shaheds - May 2025 - link

• How drones, data, and AI transformed our military—and why the US must follow suit - April 2025 - link

• Russian AI Drone Swarm? Not There Yet – A Guide to Drone Navigation - January 2025 - link - *free

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• Landmines in Ukraine - July 2025 - link

• Ukraine created a drone that can detect mines using special equipment and artificial intelligence - June-July 2025 - link

• How Ukraine Is Building the World’s Largest Fleet of Demining Vehicles - June 2025 - link

• Drones have transformed mine warfare in Ukraine - April 2025 - link

• Ukraine’s demining needs for territories affected by the war amount to $29.8 billion - February-March 2025 - link

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• Mirage 2000-5 and Its Core Functions in Ukraine - January-February 2026 - link

• Ukrainian F-16 Pilot on the Realities of the Air War - January-February 2026 - link

• Ukraine–France Strategic Agreement: Rafale and SAMP/T - November 2025 - link

• Ukraine Picks the Gripen - October 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine’s Mobile Fire Groups Turn to Helicopters to Counter Shaheds - October 2025 - link

• Ukraine’s Aviation Industry: A Potential for Leadership - August 2025 - link

• Russian aircraft was damaged as a result of the Operation Spiderweb - June-July 2025 - link

• Modernization of aircraft and helicopters used by Ukraine’s Armed Forces - April 2025 - link

• Project Cessna: Ukraine converted light aircraft into bomber drones - April 2025 - link

• F-16 fighter jet lost in combat - April 2025 - link - *free

• Russia continues hyping up its Su-57 fighter jet while its arms exports collapse by 92% - February 2025 - link - *free

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• Laser Tech: The Ukrainian Armed Forces Now Have a Drone with Laser Target Designation - July 2025 - link

• Stopping Shaheds: Ukraine’s Solutions - July 2025 - link - *free

• Laser weapons are currently the most effective air defense against FPV drones: interview with Airlogix - June 2025 - link - *free

• Alligator-9: Ukraine’s naval drone destroys enemy robot drones with laser fire - April 2025 - link - *free

• Ukrainian Developers Highlight the Key Advantages of the Domestically Produced Raybird Drone with Laser Guidance - March 2025 - link

• Ukraine’s announcement of the development and testing of a laser weapon - February 2025 - link

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Artillery systems

• 155-mm Bohdana artillery systems account for 40% of all artillery used by the AFU at the frontline - December 2025 - link

• Ukrainian Artillery System Bohdana: Detailed Overview - August 2025 - link

• Artillery Systems in Ukraine (Archer, Panzerhaubitze, M777, Giatsint-B) - July 2025 - link

• Ukraine produces more artillery systems than 155mm shells - June 2025 - link

• Russia’s artillery - April 2025 - link - *free

• Artillery Is Still King, And Ukraine Has Mastered Producing Howitzers - March, 2025 - link

• Artillery production in Ukraine - March 2025 - link

Ammunition

• Ukraine sets up serial production of 120 mm rounds for the Abrams and Leopard 2 tanks, and 105 mm and 155 mm ammunition - October 2025 - link

• Rheinmetall ammunition plant in Ukraine - September 2025 - link

• Gunpowder production in Russia nearly doubled - July 2025 - link - *free

• Ammunition production in Ukraine: Ukrainian Armour - April 2025 - link

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Since the number of my posts on Ukraine’s Arms Monitor has already exceeded 130, I’ve decided to group them by theme and launch a Topic Navigator.

I’ll send some of the largest and most popular sections by email, but please note that the full Topic Navigator will now be available on Ukraine’s Arms Monitor website at all times.

You can use it whenever you want to explore specific topics — such as UAVs, naval drones, ground drones, Ukraine–Europe cooperation, arms control, and more. If you have suggestions for topics you’d like to see listed, feel free to let me know — I’ll consider them.

New posts and sections will be automatically added to the relevant lists in the Navigator.

The list starts with the most recent posts; free posts are highlighted with asterisks.

The first is “Deep Strike Capabilities”.

• North Korean Ballistic Missiles Strengthen Russia’s Salvos Against Ukraine - August 2026 - link - *free;

• Russia’s Key Task: Increase the Number of Missile Launchers - August 2026 - link;

• Ukraine Used 15 Domestic Weapons Types in Its Strike on Novorossiysk Base - August 2026 - link;

• Ukraine’s Long-Range Strike Tactics Become More Precise - July 2026 - link;

• Russia Launched Over 40 Missiles at Kyiv - July 2026 - link;

• Jet-Powered Shaheds and How Ukraine Plans to Counter Them - July 2026 - link - *free;

• Ukraine’s Deep-Strike and Middle-Strike Missions: Who Chooses the Targets? - June-July 2026 - link;

• Flamingo Missiles Got Intercepted Again - June-July 2026 - link;

• Flamingo Missiles: New Results - June 2026 - link;

• Ukraine’s Largest Attack on Moscow: What Systems Were Used? - June 2026 - link - *free;

• Ukraine is Moving Closer to a Missile Breakthrough — But Major Gaps Remain - June 2026 - link;

• Russia Attacks Ukraine With Oreshnik Missile for Third Time - May 2026 - link - *free;

• The War Returns Home: Ukraine Launches Major Attack on Moscow - May 2026 - link;

• How Accurate Are Flamingo Missiles? - May 2026 - link

• Ukraine Continues Long-Range Strikes against Russia as Part of Asymmetric Warfare - May 2026 - link - *free

• Ukraine’s Long-Range Drone Capabilities - March 2026 - link;

• Russian Shaheds Strike a Passenger Train in Ukraine - January 2026 - link - *free

• Russia’s New Geran-5 Drones - January 2026 - link

• Russia Strikes Ukraine With Anti-Ship Missiles - January 2026 - link - *free

• Shahed Drones Are Evolving in Three Main Directions - January 2026 - link - *free

• Drones Against Civilians: How Russia Uses UAVs to Kill and Terrorize - January 2026 - link - *free

• Shaheds with real-time remote control - December 2025 - link

• When Ukraine will have ballistic missiles, and how the “Flamingo” missile was developed - December 2025 - link

• How to Increase the Effectiveness of Deep Strike Drones: Comments from Ukraine’s Aerorozvidka - November 2025 - link - *free

• FP-7 and FP-9 ballistic missiles (Fire Point) - November 2025 - link

• Ukraine Doubles Down on Deep-Strike Capabilities: The Ukrainian Council of Defence Industry - November 2025 - link

• How Ukraine’s Deep Strike Campaign Affects Russia - October-November 2025 - link - *free

• Second launch of Flamingo missile - November 2025 - link

• Russia and its Burevestnik missile - October 2025 - link - *free

• Pentagon gave the green light to proceed with supplying Ukraine with long-range Tomahawks - October 2025 - link - *free

• Zelensky set tasks to expand the geography of long-range strikes - October 2025 - link

• Ukrainian forces carried out more than 160 strikes on oil refineries and other facilities deep inside Russia - October 2025 - link

• US and Tomahawks - October 2025 - link - *free

• Discussions about Tomahawks ongoing - October 2025 - link - *free

• Inside Fire Point: Drones, Missiles and Politics: summary of the interview - October 2025 - link

• Russian ballistic missiles are flying on quasi-ballistic trajectories - September-October 2025 - link

• Flamingo, Air Defence and Ballistic Missiles: Fire Point’s Main Priorities - September 2025 - link

• Ukraine’s Long-Range Drones Hit Russia’s Oil Network - September 2025 - link - *free

• American Shield AI and Ukrainian Iron Belly develop a long-range strike drone - September 2025 - link

• How Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb Affected Russia’s Strategic Bomber Fleet - September 2025 - link

• Fire Point will establish a plant in Denmark to produce solid fuel for its missiles - September 2025 - link

• How far into Russia can Ukraine’s Flamingo missile reach? First use of Flamingo - September 2025 - link

• Ukraine Ramps Up Long-Range Disposable Drone Production: FP-1 - August 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine’s Flamingo Cruise Missile: What Is Known So Far - August 2025 - link

• Russian Shaheds in Polish Airspace - August 2025 - link

• Eight high-value, militarily plausible targets that Ukraine could strike - August 2025 - link

• Ukraine’s Long-Range Drones and Their Limitations - August 2025 - link

• Russia’s jet-powered Shaheds - July-August, 2025 - link

• FP-1: Ukraine’s New Long-Range Drone and Its Impressive Results - July 2025 - link

• A Mesh network element found on Russian Gerbera - July 2025 - link

• Ukraine’s Sapsan short-range ballistic missile - June 2025 - link

• Russia’s production of ballistic missiles has increased by at least 66% over the past year - June 2025 - link - *free

• Russia uses Shahed drones with AI targeting for the first time in Ukraine - June 2025 - link

• How Drones Are Becoming Part of Ukraine’s Air and Missile Defense - June 2025 - link

• The Global Rise of Shahed-Type Drones - June 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine’s Sapsan ballistic missile - June 2025 - link

• Germany, France, the UK, and the US lifted all restrictions on Ukraine regarding the range of strikes - June 2025 - link - *free

• Russia increased production of ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as improved their quality - May 2025 - link - *free

• Shaheds, SIM Cards, and Telegram Channels: How They All Work Together - May 2025 - link

• Russian Technologies: Drone Swarms and More Efficient Shaheds - May 2025 - link

• Putin rejected Zelensky’s proposal for a temporary moratorium on long-range strikes - April 2025 - link

• Russia is intensifying its focus on Shahed OWA-UAV operations - April 2025 - link

• Ukraine’s long-range Neptune cruise missile is a potential trump card - March 2025 - link

• Ukraine Plans to Produce 2,000 Long-Range Drones in 2025 - February- March 2025 - link - *free

• Russia plans to launch up to 500 Shahed drones and decoy UAVs at Ukraine simultaneously - February- March 2025 - link

• Russia begins producing turbofan-powered Geran-3 (Shahed-238) drones and modifies Shahed-136 drones - February 2025 - link - *free

• Russia is using Belarusian components for Kh-69 missiles - February 2025 - link - *free

• Ukraine is daring Russia to open fire on swarms of new Trembita drones. Many of the drones will be decoys - February 2025 - link - *free

• Russians Significantly Modernized Shahed and Gerbera Drones - February 2025 - link

• Ukraine sees marked improvement in accuracy of Russia’s North Korean missiles - February 2025 - link - *free

• “Hell” for Russians: How Ukraine Was Making a Super Drone but Ended Up with a Cruise Missile - February 2025 - link - *free

• How Russia’s Struggles with ICBM Sarmat Production Impact Its Nuclear Deterrence Capabilities - January 2025 - link - *free

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