Daily Archives: Oct 9, 2025

Might a €10,000 drone be enough to get NATO to rethink its entire air defense strategy? Within the past month, a series of Russian incursions into European airspace have been met with a sharp turn in U.S. rhetoric, as President Donald Trump urged NATO allies to shoot down Russian...

Ukrainian drones are not only burning refinery rooftops they are reconfiguring the supply chain of Russia's oil industry in ways that engineering constraint and sea-based enforcement are now making achingly apparent. What started out as a military effort to impede fuel production has snowballed into a system-wide pressure, from...

President Trump's last-minute about-face on sending weapons to Ukraine may have been political theater, but to Kyiv's strategists and engineers, it underscored a harsh truth: Ukraine's air defense system hangs by a thin thread of technology, production capacity, and battlefield ingenuity. As one missile defense analyst, Tom Karako, recently...