#Combat Drones

Ukraine’s June 9 deep strike on the Savasleyka airbase in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region has not only damaged valuable Russian aircraft—it may have dealt a serious blow to Moscow’s ability to field MiG-31K jets equipped for Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.

Ukraine’s underwater warfare game is surfacing—quietly and with a big payload. For example, “Marichka”: a six-meter-long, stealthy, multi-purpose undersea drone designed to do just one thing—make sure Russian ships, bridges, and fortifications have very bad mornings. Built by Ukrainian defense startup AMMO, this sleek black torpedo-shaped machine is a prototype that’s already causing serious buzz.

Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has confirmed that a series of FPV drone attacks on Russian airbases, called Operation Spider Web, led to the destruction of 34% of Russia’s strategic cruise missile carriers—effectively wiping out one-third of the air-based component of Russia’s nuclear triad.