Defense Tech

Ukraine has finally shown Rheinmetall’s cutting-edge Skyranger 35 in action—but the biggest surprise is not that the system has arrived. Footage released by the Ukrainian military suggests the powerful 35mm drone killer may have been quietly defending Ukrainian skies for months before its existence was publicly acknowledged.

A Soviet debt deal gave South Korea a fleet of Russian helicopters that became indispensable for fighting wildfires. More than 30 years later, Dallas Analytics has traced efforts to keep those aircraft flying back toward sanctioned Russian aviation companies—turning a firefighting necessity into an uncomfortable national-security problem.