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The war of machines: drones, missiles, shields, and the race to shoot them down.
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Reportage· No. 1316

REPORT: UK Sends £752 Million — 150,000 Drones and 350 Missiles for Ukraine

On June 23, 2026, British Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis announced the largest British military aid package to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale…

Analysis· No. 1313

FACT-CHECK: Rheinmetall wins Bundeswehr contract for 23 Bergepanzer 3 A2

Since 2022, Germany has delivered to Ukraine military equipment that, two years earlier, nobody believed it was capable of giving. Leopard 2 tanks, IRIS-T…

Analysis· No. 1310

ANALYSIS: Nammo N7 — how Norway secretly armed Ukrainian drones

The Eurosatory 2026 arms exhibition, held in Paris in June, is one of the largest gatherings of the global defense industry. It was there…

Profile· No. 1308

PROFILE: Crimea besieged — portrait of a peninsula collapsing under drones

There are moments when an administrative act tells a war better than any military report. On June 26, 2026, the pro-Russian authorities installed in…

Editorial· No. 1306

EDITORIAL: Freya, the Ukrainian interceptor at $700,000 that challenges the Patriot monopoly

On June 18, 2026, the 35th meeting of the Ramstein Contact Group convened not at Ramstein but in Brussels. Fifty-seven countries present. Four billion…

Reportage· No. 1304

REPORT: Chonhar, Crimea's chokepoint that Ukraine destroys one drone at a time

Since early June 2026, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has published multiple video sequences showing Russian military trucks on fire near Chonhar, at…

Profile· No. 1301

TESTIMONY: Ukraine glide-bombs Russia — in pairs, exactly as Russia did for three years

For three years, Russia pounded Ukraine with glide bombs — KABs of various calibers dropped by Su-34s and Su-30s flying in paired formations, with…

Analysis· No. 1298

DECODING: Starlink on Russian USVs — the naval attack of June 23 repelled in the Black Sea

On June 23, 2026, at approximately 4:00 AM, Ukrainian forces detected and neutralized a group of Russian uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) approaching the Ukrainian…

Commentary· No. 1296

COMMENTARY: One operator, a hundred drones — the US Army crosses the autonomous swarm threshold

In May 2026, somewhere on an American training range, a single operator took simultaneous control of a mixed swarm of drones of different types.…

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