OVER DEZE AFLEVERING
The Pentagon's own drone chief says America is starting from basically zero on cheap drone production, while Russia builds millions.
This episode covers the Drone Dominance Program's Gauntlet results and the Army's push for 50,000 brushless motors, plus new Indiana test ranges at Camp Atterbury and Muscatatuck. We break down the Army's billion-dollar Future Interceptor award to Lockheed Martin, the State Department's approved $2.1 billion sale of 500 PAC-3 MSE Patriot missiles to Ukraine, and Ukraine's OBRIA Nano test satellite as it seeks an alternative to Starlink. On the Russian side: the Susanin optical navigation module for Geran drones, plus magnetometers and the reported Koshchei drone. We also look at Brave1's new amphibious ground robots, an FIU sensor that detects drones by their motor magnetic fields, the Cerberus MI shotgun drone on the Blue UAS list, and the RAF Protector's first operational mission shadowing a Russian frigate.
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Keywords: drone warfare, Drone Dominance, Ukraine war technology, Patriot missiles, Future Interceptor, counter-drone, electronic warfare, autonomous weapons, ground robots, defence innovation, battlefield AI, Starlink alternative
