Daily digest, 15 August 2026

Priority 1. UAVs, C-UAS, military AI and new technologies

The jet race of unmanned aircraft: strike and interception

update Ukrainian jet-powered interceptor drones — speed >600 km/h, combat trials have begun

Former Ukrainian defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov published a video from the production of jet-powered interceptor drones that accelerate to "over 600 km/h". Development is proceeding through Brave1 grants, several companies have solutions, and there are no confirmed kills yet — Fedorov himself writes: "we are awaiting results and the first confirmed kills" source. The reason for the switch to a jet design is straightforward: classic FPV interceptors ("Pisyuny", "Stings") can no longer catch the jet-powered Gerans. An open and unresolved question is what to use, and how, to guide the interceptor onto the target at such speeds source.

[TECH] The jet-powered interceptor traced to Stellar Jet (Kyiv) — the manufacturer de-anonymized

A payloadUAV OSINT analysis, based on the STELLITER logo on a shipping crate, traced the jet-powered interceptor to the Kyiv-based LLC Stellar Jet (EDRPOU 45360814, registered on 17.01.2024). The company's explosive growth is telling: revenue of 436 million → 5.306 billion UAH, headcount 43 → 419 people in a year. In the trademark class, as separate items — "jet engines for UAVs" and "vehicles for launching UAVs". The link rests on circumstantial evidence and is not closed by a document source. The post contains the full attribution methodology using registries.

Jet-powered BM-35 — 10 kg warhead, range >200 km, speed >350 km/h

The Russian BM-35 kamikaze drone (which previously served as a carrier of Starlink terminals, knocking out rear infrastructure and air defense) has received a jet engine source. At a speed of more than 350 km/h, the BM-35 is out of reach for many current Ukrainian interceptors. Along with the jet-powered Gerans, it intensifies strikes on the rear and logistics source.

Interception of a jet-powered Geran-4 by a MiG-29 cannon and an Osa SAM system

The moment of interception of a jet-powered Geran-4 at point-blank range by the 30-mm cannon of a Ukrainian MiG-29 near Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Odesa region) has been recorded source, as well as the engagement of a similar target by an Osa SAM system of the 1129th anti-aircraft regiment in the Kyiv region source. Key trend: interceptor drones are no longer coping with the jet-powered Gerans, and the enemy is forced to return to classic SAM systems and aviation — which will soon raise the question of the shortage of surface-to-air missiles again.

update Gerbera-2 — enlarged body, 20-30 kg warhead, 63 l tank

From the wreckage: the new Gerbera has grown considerably in size, carries a 20-30 kg warhead or a comparable payload, and has received a 63 l fuel tank, new electronics and a more powerful engine — effectively half of a Geran-2 engine. In essence, the new Gerberas are approaching the old piston-engined Gerans source.

Drone control and relaying

update MESH relaying of the "Geran-4 Seeker" — up to 220 km from Russian territory without Belarus

A "Geran-4 seeker" strike on a warehouse in Brovary (north of Kyiv) was guided "live" via mesh modems. According to the Russian side, without additional equipment in Belarus, the signal from Russian territory extends up to 220 km — enough to hit the northern and eastern outskirts of Kyiv source.

A "lurker" drone with a microphone — a new tactic for detecting vehicles

Russian "lurker" drones have begun to be fitted with microphones: the vehicle hides out of the driver's field of view and detects the passage of vehicles by sound source. Ukrainian channels are already posting the sound "that they hear a second before being sent to Bandera" source.

update Starlink Mini on ordinary FPVs — broadband communications instead of fiber optics

The installation of Starlink Mini has been recorded not only on strike fixed-wing drones and Vampires but also on ordinary FPVs. Commentators note: fiber is fading into the background, communications are becoming broadband source. Separately: an enemy engineer recorded the appearance of EW against the FPV video channel on Shaheds — 5.8 GHz antennas source.

C-UAS and EW

[TECH] Yastreb/Tishina (Potapov) — intelligent EW that scans the entire band + hits the frequency

An analysis of a new Russian EW system: it simultaneously scans the entire band and works in a targeted way on the frequency, detecting the one on which the UAV is flying and following it during frequency hopping. Low weight, power consumption ~300 W source. According to the analysis, this is not a "noisemaker" but targeted action without high-power emission on one's own forces — "a scalpel instead of a chainsaw"; the enemy has no such serial systems source. The Tishina update will receive support for several SDR modules, a combined signal-to-noise ratio for frequency hopping, target reports and a MILELRS/ELRS classifier source.

[TECH] Damba EW (December1) — leaving "silent mode" after two years

Ukraine's December1 has for the first time publicly disclosed details of its work on the Damba EW systems and announced the scaling up of production. The logic of the disclosure: "over two years the enemy has learned about the existence of these assets anyway" source.

VictoryDrones: an AI model for detecting multicopters (FPV, Mavic, Autel)

Ukraine's VictoryDrones showed the first stage of training an AI model against multicopter drones: a sample of ~25,000 frames for measuring quality; the task is to reduce false positives in detecting small targets [source](https://t.me/VictoryDrones2023/28268].

Belarus Stena — a counter-drone system with an X-band radar

The Belarusian Armed Forces have adopted the Stena (AGAT – Control Systems): an operator workstation collects reconnaissance data and automatically distributes targets among kill/suppression assets. The X-band phased array radar detects medium drones at up to 25 km and mini-UAVs at up to 15 km source.

update Rheinmetall FV-014 — launching a loitering munition from a moving platform

At the DLR test range (July), Rheinmetall for the first time launched the FV-014 not only from a stationary HX truck but also on the move. The containerized launcher based on a 20-foot ISO container holds up to 18 munitions; weight ~22 kg (warhead ~6 kg), range up to 100 km, up to 70 min of flight. As a reminder: a framework contract with the Bundeswehr for ~2500 FV-014 (~€300 million), first deliveries in the first half of 2027 source.

Ground robots and combinations

update Depesha-3 (Rostec) — the "eyes above, hands on the ground" combo at the front line

A tandem is being tested: an aerial reconnaissance drone designates a target for a ground robot. The Depesha-3 is technically ready: control via radio or fiber optics, picture on a monitor/VR. The logic is the same as for FPV pilots — a common operator culture simplifies coordination source. Its use for blowing up fortifications with confirmation of the result has been clearly shown source.

TENCORE TerMIT + Predator — the strike version of the UGV recognized as an integrated system

Ukraine's TENCORE has integrated the Predator remote weapon station onto the tracked TerMIT UGV (range up to 40 km, ballistic protection): detection, tracking and engagement of FPV drones on the move via auto-detection, a ballistic computer and gyro-stabilization. The module — a 7.62-mm machine gun (Soviet/NATO), a thermal imager, a laser rangefinder. Shown at DALO Industry Days (Denmark) source.

Fang Logistics — two Fang-1/2 logistics UGVs

Ukraine's Fang Logistics presented wheeled logistics UGVs: the Fang-1 (74 kg loaded, payload capacity 76 kg, up to 30 km on asphalt) and the Fang-2 (200/200 kg, towing up to 400 kg, up to 50 km). Communications: radio, LTE, satellite. They are undergoing codification source.

New interceptors and drones (codification/debut)

WINFLY Spider — an interceptor with the Karakut net launcher

Ukraine's WINFLY, based on the WINFLY 10 Hunter (ceiling up to 5000 m, up to 160 km/h, range >18 km), presented the Spider interceptor with the Karakut net launcher (210 g, aluminum, USB-C): a 3×3 m net deploys at 3-5 m, effective launch distance up to 15 m, with return to the launch point source.

Roboneers WARDOG/BULLDOG + the Shablia K2 turret

Ukraine's Roboneers updated its line: the WARDOG (carrier of a relay/payload, up to 45 min), the BULLDOG (10 kg payload + bomber mode), as well as the Shablia K2 turret for two Kalashnikov rifles source.

Zvook — passive acoustic sensors on a moving platform

Tests of Ukrainian Zvook passive acoustic early warning sensors on moving vehicles (not without problems). The sensors are already used in the Sky Fortress system across the country and are equipped with microcomputers with ML; a separate model, Zvook Tracking, determines the azimuth and direction of a target in real time source.

STASH (a SAM system with Hellfire) — one crew has shot down ~70 targets

One crew of the Ukrainian STASH SAM system, which uses AGM-114L Hellfire missiles, has already destroyed about 70 aerial targets source.

Military AI and communications

NATO: AI for controlling drone "swarms" on the eastern borders

According to Politico, NATO plans to use AI to control a large number of drones while strengthening its eastern borders. This is not about full autonomy — AI simplifies control, the engagement decision is made by the operator. A "digital battlefield network" of thousands of drones, sensors and satellites is being built source.

KAiDEN (South Korea) — an autonomous drone interceptor (architecture analysis)

An analysis of the South Korean autonomous interceptor KAiDEN with an emphasis on architecture: target detection, guidance, machine vision, the degree of dependence on the operator and GNSS source.

[TECH] Thermodynamic computing (Extropic, US) — p-bit chips for military AI

The American startup Extropic has signed a non-binding agreement with the US Department of Commerce for funding of up to $75 million (CHIPS R&D) to launch the first TSU (Thermodynamic Sampling Units) clusters and prepare the Z1.5 chip. The idea is probabilistic computing on "noise" (p-bits) for combinatorial optimization and generative AI; target applications include defense and autonomous systems. The open THRML library runs on top of JAX/GPU source.

Key strikes (geography — Ukraine/Europe)

A strike on Progress/Aviakor in Samara — the link to Rassvet

Ukraine struck (presumably with a Flamingo missile) plants in Samara — either Aviakor or the Progress Rocket and Space Center, which, among other things, is involved in the Rassvet satellite communications program source source. A direct intersection of space and mil-tech.

update NOVATEK – Ust-Luga — two processing units hit, the 7th attack in six months

On the night of 14.08, the NOVATEK – Ust-Luga complex (capacity ~8 million t/year) was hit: according to Ukrainian data, the fractionation and hydrocracking units were damaged. Exilenova+ analysis: a strike on the hydrocracker hits the entire chain of light-product production and the export hub in the Baltic source. A total of 54 UAVs were shot down; this is already the 7th attack on the port in six months (890 km from the border) source.

Sheskharis (Novorossiysk) halted oil exports after a UAV attack

The largest Russian oil terminal on the Black Sea (~700 thousand barrels/day) suspended loading after a UAV attack; a tanker put to sea, and oil intake was halted because the tanks were full source.

Statistics of strikes on Russia for July: a record

Oko Gora: 65 recorded hits, including 17 refineries (a record), 16 logistics hubs, 10 oil depots, 9 ports, 4 defense industry enterprises source. The rate of loss of Ukrainian locomotives is 20-25 per month source.

What to watch

1. The jet asymmetry has shifted. Both sides are massively switching to jet-powered kamikaze drones (BM-35, Geran-4/5), and this has nullified the main achievement of the year — cheap FPV interception. Ukraine is responding with jet-powered interceptors (>600 km/h, Stellar Jet), but the question of guidance at such speeds remains unresolved. Russia is now in a window of superiority.

2. MESH relaying has extended the "Geran seekers" to 220 km deep into Ukraine — live remote control makes it possible to hit moving targets (locomotives) and requires fundamentally new EW. The Russian Yastreb/Tishina and the Ukrainian Damba — a race for "intelligent" targeted suppression against frequency hopping.

3. Space has become a direct target: the strike on Samara's Progress (the Rassvet program) + HUR states Russia plans 292 Rassvet satellites by 2027 and 900+ by 2035. An independent Russian drone control channel over all of Ukraine is taking shape.

4. Ground robots have entered standard combinations: Depesha-3 + aerial reconnaissance, the strike TerMIT+Predator for intercepting FPVs on the move. UGVs are no longer an experiment but an element of tactics.

5. The Russian military marketplace Roy.Market has exited the pilot phase — a direct response to the strikes on Wildberries warehouses (damage of 600-800 billion rubles), with distributed logistics without a central warehouse. A structural signal of the restructuring of supply.

What's new in UAVs and counter-UAV

• Jet-powered interceptors >600 km/h (Ukraine, Stellar Jet) — combat trials.

• Jet-powered BM-35 (Russia) — 10 kg warhead, >350 km/h, >200 km.

• Gerbera-2 (Russia) — 20-30 kg warhead, 63 l tank, updated electronics.

• MESH relaying of the "Geran-4 Seeker" up to 220 km.

• A "lurker" drone with a microphone (Russia) — detecting vehicles by sound.

• Yastreb/Tishina EW (Russia) and Damba (Ukraine) — targeted suppression against frequency hopping.

• Stena (Belarus) — C-UAS with an X-band radar (25/15 km).

• WINFLY Spider — an interceptor with a net launcher.

• Roboneers WARDOG/BULLDOG + the Shablia K2 turret.

• Zvook — acoustic sensors on a moving platform.

• STASH SAM system (Hellfire) — one crew ~70 targets.

• Rheinmetall FV-014 — launch from a moving launcher.

• UGVs Depesha-3, TerMIT+Predator, Fang-1/2.

Military space and space-derived data

🛰 [upd] Rassvet (Russia) — 292 satellites by 2027, 900+ by 2035 according to HUR. Ukrainian military intelligence: the first 16 Bureau 1440 satellites were launched in March 2026, the second batch in July; ~40 spacecraft are in orbit (adviser Beskrestnov). Global round-the-clock coverage requires >250 satellites. For now it is used in a limited mode — only when passing over Ukraine source. The threat is prompting Ukraine to step up pressure on Musk to allow Starlink over Russian territory (which he so far refuses). The strike on Samara's Progress hits the Rassvet chain directly source.

🛰 An enemy expert's analysis: Rassvet is a OneWeb clone, not a Starlink one. Volodymyr Stepanets (a Ukrainian satellite communications expert): architecturally, Rassvet is closer to the European OneWeb — a "bent pipe" without a full-fledged network of inter-satellite links; ground infrastructure in the coverage area is critical. Even a few dozen satellites create coverage "windows" sufficient for strike correction or UAV control. The answer is not to shoot them down but to jam them: the Volna, Kupol and Garant systems (radius up to 20 km) source.

🛰 US Army: strikes on enemy reconnaissance satellites from the ground. SMDC TID-SS director Mroshchik: "the army is used to shooting at a ship at sea — why not at a satellite in space?". Two areas of expansion — "counterintelligence/surveillance" of enemy space assets and "stratospheric warfare". The US declares that it renounces destructive kinetic ASAT (debris) source. General Whiting (Space Command): both kinetic and non-kinetic means are needed — communications suppression, cyberattacks, laser dazzling; satellites must "shoot, move and communicate". The priority is countering distributed constellations of hundreds to thousands of satellites through cyber weapons and directed energy source.

🛰 [upd] Starlink V5 with the AFU — specifications and the question of the supply channel. According to Russian data, V5 terminals have "begun to arrive": the antenna panel has been halved (117,500 mm² vs 227,500), weight 1.1 kg (−60%), consumption 35-50 W (half that of the V4), wind resistance up to 265 km/h. Tactical significance — integration of a satellite link into small UAVs and USVs source. An important correction: RuporOfBattle points out that the photo shows a single unit owned by a private researcher, "probably the first in the country", with no signs of military acceptance or a delivery batch. The wording "have begun to receive" is ahead of reality. Separately: there is no GNSS module inside the V5 source.

🛰 [TECH] Scalability requirements for Rassvet. Analysis: success is determined not by speed/coverage but by the industrial and launch conveyor (serial satellites, regular launches, upgrades) and by customer equipment. For comparison — Starlink V5: 1.1 kg, >375 Mbit/s, 35-50 W, an electronically steered phased array with a 110° field of view. Rassvet needs cheap serial terminals in the tens to hundreds of thousands and a mass civilian market as a source of operational statistics source.

🛰 The Pentagon has pulled satellites towards the Far East. According to Rybar, on August 12-13 US DoD satellites were imaging sites on Iturup and in the Sakhalin region in maximum-detail mode, and from August 7 to 13 — Russian Armed Forces sites throughout the Far Eastern Federal District. This coincides with Washington's support for Japanese claims to the Kurils source.

🛰 [TECH] Quantum synchronization of radars without GNSS (Aquark, UK). Trials of Saab Giraffe 1X radars with AQlock 2.0 cold-atom atomic clocks: warm-up in <30 min, synchronization of two radars into a single picture without GNSS. When GPS spoofing/jamming was deliberately introduced, the radars continued operating with "rapid recovery" source.

🛰 Chinese satellite intelligence infrastructure in New Zealand thwarted. NZSIS prevented an attempt by the China-linked Purple Mountain observatory to install satellite tracking infrastructure through a local company; the data collected could have been of value to military intelligence source.

Under the radar

🔍 [TECH] Extropic thermodynamic processors (US) — a new computing primitive for AI (👁169, ↗4). p-bit chips for probabilistic computing, up to $75 million from the US Department of Commerce under CHIPS R&D, target applications include defense tasks. An underrated early signal of a new class of military AI hardware source.

🔍 K3 Scout (Royal Navy, UK) — USV telemetry leak to an IP in China (👁1676, ↗6). An audit revealed that third-party electro-optical systems on the Kraken USV (£12 million) automatically transmitted packets on power supply and telemetry to a Chinese IP via IoT protocols. A trigger for reviewing the certification of dual-use components source.

🔍 [TECH] A modular shipborne UAV with vertical launch from a transport-launch canister (Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad) (👁973, ↗10). Patent: the wings and tail are folded along the fuselage, automatic deployment after leaving the canister, interchangeable nose/central modules (cameras, SAR, extra fuel, warhead). Extends the radar horizon of small ships without carrier-based aviation source.

🔍 [TECH] Patent RU223618 — a universal sleeve for POMKP (TVVIKU) (👁6303, ↗37). A 3D-printed sleeve with two sockets allows an OZM-72 mine to be set simultaneously in uncontrolled+controlled mode or with a main+self-destruct fuze with a single initiation point. It was printed by volunteers and used at the front source.

🔍 [TECH] Hoverflie (Univ. of Hawaii) — a drone-hovercraft hybrid, +60% time near the surface (👁144, ↗2). Modifying a Crazyflie 2.1 with shrouds enhances ground effect: hovering near the surface for 889 s versus 561 s (arXiv). The price — −30% in free flight due to the weight source.

🔍 [TECH] EPFL acoustic resonators — thrust from sound for micro-drones (👁1123, ↗8). Helmholtz resonance converts ultrasound into directed thrust; microflyers weighing 150 µg fly without motors or electronics (Science Advances) source.

And what about our Chinese comrades?

🇨🇳 Han Kuang 42 exercise (Taiwan) — a dress rehearsal for a protracted war with the PLA. The key shift: Taiwan has abandoned the concept of stopping the enemy at the coast. It now proceeds from a scenario of a successful first strike, the loss of airfields and an amphibious landing — they practiced dispersal of aircraft, evacuation of the leadership, field repair of equipment, mass replenishment with reservists and preparation for heavy losses. American principles are being introduced: battalion/brigade commanders have been given autonomy, and the TAK digital network makes it possible to act when communications are lost. The main irremovable problem is geography: all important sites are within range of Chinese missiles source.

🇨🇳 Taiwan is forming a mass strike UAV echelon by 2027. The basis — the Chien Hsiang anti-radiation drones (the first batch of 200 units has been handed over to the air defense/missile command) and new cheap strike UAVs with image-based guidance (possibly the Jinfeng-2 project). Tactics: a cheap drone as a consumable forces China to spend expensive air defense assets — a war of attrition source.

🇨🇳 A digital medevac system at Han Kuang 42. Electronic medical triage via a mobile app was used for the first time: automatic assignment of a color category, data on injuries and evacuation priority to a single network in real time. The backup algorithm is paper cards if the digital infrastructure is knocked out source.

🇨🇳 [upd] SkyX "flying fish" (Changsha Night Hawk) — specification details. A dual-medium bionic drone: takeoff from water, diving to 5 m, speed on and under water up to 50 km/h. Five iterations since 2021, state grants, PLA interest. Military potential — reconnaissance of the coastal strip and port infrastructure, support for special forces source.

🇨🇳 Joint China-Indonesia naval exercises east of Taiwan. The frigate Honghe (Type 054A) and the Indonesian Gusti Ngurah Rai practiced communications, formation changes and underway replenishment in a sensitive area on August 12. Taiwan condemned it as an attempt to create a "false impression of control" over these waters source.

🇨🇳 Joint China-Belarus airborne exercises "Swift Eagle-2026" (Hubei). The program includes the use and assembly of UAVs, counter-UAV operations, urban combat and the formation of mixed units. Belarusian special forces arrived on an Il-76MD source.

External analysis

🌐 CENTCOM is creating an international kamikaze drone strike group (TWZ). Task Force Falcon Strike (TFFS) — the first multinational loitering munition group in the air, surface and undersea domains with regional allies. It builds on the experience of Task Force Scorpion Strike, where the US first used LUCAS kamikaze drones (Shahed-136 clones), and Saronic Corsair surface vessels carried out the first naval drone strike in US history, against the base at Bandar Abbas. This adds an important signal to the Russian-Ukrainian picture: the US is industrializing the "Shahed" model in the Middle East source.

🌐 The US Navy is moving to systematic additive manufacturing of submarine parts (Janes). Instead of piece-by-piece approval — certification of "material+process" combinations: a part made by an approved method is accepted without verifying each unit. This removes long-standing safety restrictions for the submarine fleet; tracking is retained for critical SUBSAFE/Level I parts. It accelerates submarine repair — important context for the submarine fleet race with China source.

🌐 The Netherlands tested C2 for a "hybrid fleet" (Janes). The five-week MUST exercise: integration of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles across all maritime domains via the domestic IDUS into the Guardion combat system. The workability of the command architecture for mixed crewed-uncrewed forces was confirmed — a European analog of what the US is doing in the Middle East source.

🌐 South Korea: MUM-T for mine countermeasures with LLM control (Janes). Hanwha Systems showed a combination of a 30-ton USV, the Haeryong reconnaissance USV with an underwater drone, a crewed minesweeper, UAVs and OneWeb communications under the control of the AMDS AI system based on a language model: a natural-language command → an automatic mine search plan and coordination of neutralization. It shows how generative AI is entering real naval combat tasks source.

🌐 Côte d'Ivoire received Chinese Wing Loong II with a COMINT pod (Janes). The African state confirmed the acquisition of strike-reconnaissance UAVs (contract with CATIC, June 2024); one aircraft carries a signals intelligence pod. It complements the Russian-Ukrainian picture with a view of the global proliferation of Chinese ISR/strike platforms source.

🌐 China-Iran: joint rare earth processing (IE). The national funds of the two countries have included exploration and processing of rare earth metals in their workshop program. Iran has reserves (anomalies over ~7000 sq km) but no processing; China, which dominates the chain and is tightening export controls, may transfer separation know-how. Direct context for military systems (magnets, radars, missiles) amid US efforts to reduce dependence on China source.

Priority 3. Conflict development and forecast signals

⚔️ Lavrov: there will be no ceasefire, strikes will intensify. A halt along the line of contact is "impossible"; strikes on facilities feeding Kyiv's "war machine" will be intensified source. Against this background — a Ukrainian proposal for a moratorium on strikes in the Black Sea via a third party (Reuters), which Russian channels interpret as a sign of weakness and of problems with grain exports (a drop of ~75% y/y in the first two weeks of August).

⚔️ The Dnipropetrovsk axis: "opening the can". The enemy published the results of six months of infiltration all at once, claiming 26 "liberated" settlements. Rybar's analysis: there are ~10 reliable geolocations, most on the eastern flank; the front has not collapsed, but the situation near Zelenyi Hai/Tovste/Yalta is difficult. The Vostok group of forces published retaliatory "flag-planting" videos with the return of a number of settlements source.

⚔️ Explosions at EU plants linked to supplies to Kyiv. A fire at Bulgaria's EMCO (122/152 mm shells, Grad) on August 10 and an explosion at Italy's KNDS on August 13. Both enterprises work with ammunition for Ukraine; the causes are unknown source.

⚔️ The military marketplace Roy.Market (Russia) has exited the pilot phase. TsBST is connecting third-party sellers; by 2027 — >10 thousand items. Distributed 4PL logistics without a central warehouse (reducing the risk from strikes on warehouses). A direct response to the strikes on Wildberries (damage of 600-800 billion rubles) and a relative of Ukraine's Brave1 Market source.

⚔️ Trump: tariffs of up to 100% on imports of drones and components (US). From September 3: 100% on UAVs >25 kg and national security systems, 25% on light drones, preferential rates for the EU/Japan/Korea/Taiwan. The problem is the American industry's dependence on Chinese motors, batteries and optics; China has already tightened export controls. "The drone war is turning into a supply chain war" source.

⚔️ Middle East: the 46th MQ-9 Reaper shot down over Hormuz; according to the WP, the US has lost ~45 Reapers (~25% of the fleet) in the war with Iran. Iran for the first time used unmanned underwater vehicles against tankers in the Strait of Hormuz source. CENTCOM is launching TFFS (see External analysis).

Top mil-tech signals of the day

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