Missiles, Guns, Lasers . . . and Nets: The Case for Passive Drone Defenses

Of all of the modern war lessons that have emerged from more than four years of war in Ukraine, the rapid rise of weaponized drone technology and the necessary race to develop systems to counter them

William Mayne, Modern War Institute

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AV Announces Halo_Shield – A Comprehensive Tile-Based C-UAS Solution

By The Editor on Apr 30, 2026 06:45 am

AeroVironment, Inc. has announced the release of Halo_Shield, a modular, distributed, and cost-effective counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) designed to predict, detect, track, identify and defeat advanced airborne threats—including Group 1–5 UAS, coordinated drone swarms, and subsonic cruise missiles—protecting critical infrastructure and deployed forces worldwide. AV made the announcement at Modern Day Marine on April 28 at the […]

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Google Drops Out of Pentagon Drone Swarm Contest

By The Editor on Apr 30, 2026 06:42 am

Google abruptly dropped out of a $100 million Pentagon prize challenge to create technology for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms after it was among the successful submissions, according to people briefed on the matter. The company notified the government it wouldn’t participate further in the initiative, which seeks to create the technology needed to control drone […]

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KULR Secures Defence Drone Battery Order with Potential Value of $5M for 2026

By The Editor on Apr 30, 2026 06:40 am

KULR Technology Group, Inc. , an energy-systems platform company that enables the safe, certifiable deployment of ultra-high-power lithium battery systems for space and defence programs, hyperscale AI data centers, and telecom infrastructure OEMs, announced that it received initial purchase orders totaling nearly $1.0 million from a U.S. defence technology company and manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems […]

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52 Drone Hits Fail to Destroy Ukrainian Leopard Tank During Daylong Assault

By The Editor on Apr 30, 2026 06:15 am

During a nearly daylong attack, a Ukrainian Leopard 1A5 tank withstood 52 strikes from Russian FPV and Molniya drones. The crew had reinforced the vehicle with layered anti-drone protection. The account came from soldiers in the 1st Tank Battalion of Ukraine’s 5th Separate Heavy Mechanized Brigade, which operates Leopard 1A5 tanks supplied by several European […]

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Iran

Bildet: Enten er bildet tuklet med, eller så er det en variant Iran har fikset selv. Såvidt jeg vet har F-5 aldri hat twin tails. (Red.)

Vintage Iranian Northrop F-5 light fighter reportedly strikes US base in Kuwait

Why Iran striking a heavily-defended base with an old F-5 with limited capabilities is remarkable and cautions that even obsolete aircraft can be a threat.

Aaron Spray

April 28, 2026

A new NBC News article suggests that Iran managed to strike a US base with its old Northrop F-5 light fighters. If true, this would be an extraordinary strike for such a small and outdated platform.

Report Iran bombed US base with old F-5 Tiger II

A new NBC News article suggests that Iran managed to strike a US base with its old Northrop F-5 light fighters. If true, this would be an extraordinary strike for such a small and outdated platform.

One of the most eye-catching Iranian strikes is reported to have been carried out by an Iranian Northrop F-5 Tiger II light fighter. These were delivered to the former Imperial Iranian Air Force before the 1979 revolution.

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Hegseth clashes with lawmakers over Iran war, condemns ‘defeatist’ rhetoric

Svetlana Shkolnikova

Stars and Stripes • April 29, 2026

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in Washington during a House Armed Services committee hearing regarding the Pentagon's 2027 budget request. (Eric Kayne/Stars and Stripes)

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth castigated Democrats on Wednesday for questioning the war in Iran, calling their “reckless, feckless and defeatist” words about the conflict “the biggest adversary we face” as he made his first public appearance on Capitol Hill since the war began.

He included “some Republicans” in his criticism as he testified before the House Armed Services Committee in a hearing on the Pentagon’s record $1.5 billion budget request that repeatedly turned into a heated debate on the war.

NATO

Low-cost tool could give NATO troops an electronic battlefield edge

John Vandiver

Stars and Stripes • April 29, 2026

A group of four Naval Postgraduate School students developed a new tool to map enemy positions on the battlefield. The frequency-based algorithm for spatial and temporal clustering analysis with thresholds, or FASTCAT, analyzes and maps electronic signals to help commanders identify and target enemy locations. (Luke Kitterman/U.S. Air Force)

NATO recently handed four military students 34,000 scrambled battlefield signals, and within two weeks they turned the noise into a map of enemy positions.

The feat pulled off by the team of U.S. and allied officers enrolled in the Naval Postgraduate School introduces a potential new tool for commanders who need to see through the fog of electronic war.

USA i dag

Henrik Holter

30. april 2026 - 16:59

Trump raser: - Fiks ditt ødelagte land!

Donald Trump kritiserer igjen Tysklands forbundskansler Friedrich Merz for å blande seg inn i Iran-krigen og ber ham fokusere mer på Ukraina-krigen.

– Tysklands forbundskansler bør bruke mer tid på å få slutt på krigen mellom Russland og Ukraina (hvor han har vært totalt ineffektiv!), og på å fikse sitt ødelagte land, særlig når det gjelder innvandring og energi, og mindre tid på å blande seg inn i arbeidet til dem som kvitter seg med atomtrusselen fra Iran, og dermed gjør verden, inkludert Tyskland, til et tryggere sted!

Det skriver USAs president på Truth Social torsdag ettermiddag.

Den siste tiden har Trump flere ganger gått ut mot Merz, blant annet etter at forbudskansleren har kritisert krigen i Iran.

Natt til torsdag skrev Trump at USA vurderer å trekke soldater ut av Tyskland. En avgjørelse vil ifølge Trump bli tatt innen kort tid.

Under et besøk i Marokko torsdag sier Tysklands utenriksminister Johann Wadephul at de har forberedt seg på at det kan bli færre amerikanske soldater i landet.

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En høyesterettsavgjørelse som forandrer demokratiet, og overalt hvor de setter Trumps ansikt

Trumpstempelet. Jeg brukte morgenen på å prøve å lage en liste over alt president Donald Trump og hans administrasjon har satt eller ønsker å sette presidentens navn, bilde eller signatur på. Det er mye:

Pass, dollarsedler, gullmynter, 1-dollarmynter, gullkort, jagerfly, slagskip, TrumpRx, Trump-kontoer, nasjonalparkpass, Kennedy Center, US Institute of Peace, bannere, flyplasser... Her er en visuell guide.

Andre steder i Washington. Det var to spente øyeblikk – om den ikke-erklærte amerikanske krigen og utviklingen av amerikansk demokrati – som var verdt litt oppmerksomhet på onsdag:

1. Høyesteretts utrenskning av stemmerettsloven er så godt som fullført. Konservative dommere avviste en andre valgkrets med svart flertall i Louisiana. Avgjørelsen er den siste i en serie som hugger ned på loven fra 1965. Kritikere av retten sa onsdag at loven effektivt var uthulet. Avgjørelsen, basert på ideen om at landet har endret seg siden 1965, heller parafin over de pågående krigene om å omfordele valgdistrikter.

Hva vil skje nå? Republikanerne som kontrollerer sørstatene vil nå tegne kart på nytt for å potensielt slette en rekke majoritets- og minoritetsdistrikter. Demokratene vil reagere i stater de kontrollerer. Effektene merkes kanskje ikke i år, men forvent en ny æra med partisk valgkamp og potensialet for mye færre svarte lovgivere i Sørstatene. Konklusjoner fra saken og hva som skjer videre for stemmerettsloven.

CNNs Joan Biskupic beskrev det spente øyeblikket da den konservative dommeren Samuel Alito avsa avgjørelsen med en advarsel om ikke å lytte til dissentere. Han sa i praksis at konsekvensene av å snu opp ned på borgerrettighetsloven ikke vil være så ille. Dissenterende dommer Elena Kagan var uenig og sa at avgjørelsen endrer alt, og at det vil bli vanskeligere å velge fargede kandidater enn noen gang siden gjenoppbyggingen.