Iran’s military is on high alert after it says an inbound drone attack was foiled on the country’s central city of Isfahan late Saturday night. The target was reportedly a military factory there, and immediate suspicion has fallen on Israel as being behind the operation. The ministry said at least three drones were involved, with one being intercepted by anti-air systems; however, the extent of... 

Iran sparked fury in Kyiv as the country admitted for the first time on Saturday that it had sent drones to Russia – but insisted they were supplied to its ally before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. In response, Kyiv has warned Iran that the ‘consequences’ of supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine are greater than the ‘benefits’. This comes as Kyiv and its... 

Western newspapers are incorrectly naming these Iranian flying weapons as “drones” or “suicide drones” or “kamikaze drones”, while in fact they aren’t really drones but just remote controlled missiles. However for the sake of of it, we will just go along with the Western description…. ok fine…. drones! Whatever…. but they really aren’t,... 

Vladimir Putin has rained down more kamikaze drones on Ukraine as he continues his brutal campaign of retaliation for the destruction of the Crimean bridge. A strike using the Iranian-made Shahed-136 ‘suicide’ drones near Makrariv, a small city located 31 miles west of Kyiv, destroyed critical infrastructure, sending rescue workers rushing to the scene. Throughout the capital region, residents... 

Vladimir Putin faced a significant setback as a drone attack targeted a military airfield in Russia, reportedly destroying two TU-22M3 long-range bombers at the Shaykovka air base in the Kaluga region. Situated about 200km from the Ukrainian border, the air base houses Russia’s 52nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment, known for deploying TU-22M3 bombers equipped with Kh-22 missiles, extensively... 

In reaction to Tehran’s “unfriendly act” of supplying combat drones to Russia, Ukraine said on Friday that it had withdrawn the accreditation of Iran’s ambassador in Kiev and would “seriously reduce” the number of diplomats stationed there. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that providing weapons to Moscow “directly contradicts the position... 

Dictator buddies Putin and Rouhani Iran is believed to be providing Moscow with hundreds of drones following extraordinary losses suffered by Russia during the invasion of Ukraine. So-called “suicide drones” have been used by both sides to devastating effect. Ukraine’s air force claimed to have shot down four Iranian suicide drones in the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine. Suicide... 

Cooperation between Iran and Russia in the modern technologies sector predates the Ukrainian crisis, according to Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani. The Foreign Ministry spokesman made his remarks Tuesday in response to claims by U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan about Iran’s sale of modern technical breakthroughs to Russia. U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan... 

Despite a mere days ago President Biden pledging in a New York Times op-ed that under his watch the United States would ensure it avoids supplying the Ukrainians with weapons which could penetrate deep inside Russian territory, given the potential for wider war with Russia, the White House is now said to be mulling the transfer of multiple MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones which can be armed with Hellfire missiles. Reuters,... 

Ukraine is claiming that it may have destroyed Vladimir Putin’s special ‘parade boat’ which he uses to inspect his naval fleets (Putin pictured on board the Raptor-class patrol vessel in St Petersburg in 2020) Ukraine has destroyed Vladimir Putin’s special ‘parade boat’ which he uses to inspect his naval fleets, its forces have claimed. A white-coloured Raptor-class... 

The US Marine Corps is downsizing. Tanks and armored vehicles are on the way out, drones are in, and there will be fewer Marines – but more educated and trained to handle multiple weapons systems, USMC generals said. The USMC has already “modified our force structure” as part of the 10-year modernization initiative called Force Design 2030, Commandant General David Berger announced on Monday.... 

Russia’s electronic warfare specialists will practice creating ‘protection areas’ in the country’s airspace that could render foreign satellite navigation systems completely useless, disabling an enemy’s high-precision weapons. According to Moscow daily Izvestia, citing a source in the Defense Ministry, radio-electronic warfare troops will practice using the technology during exercises this... 

Israel has handed Azerbaijan the upper hand in its war with Armenia over the breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh by selling it drone weapons Armenian forces have little defence against. In the recent flare-up of fighting, Azerbaijan has used Israeli-made ‘kamikaze drones’ that can take out Armenian tank and artillery positions dug into Nagorno-Karabakh’s mountainous terrain. Because they held... 

A top Azerbaijani official confirms his country has deployed Israeli-made military drones to combat areas in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region, and praises Israel’s Harop drone in particular as “very effective.” Israeli technology “helps Azerbaijan to provide security and safety to its nationals,” Hikmet Hajiyev, a top foreign policy adviser to President Ilham Aliyev, tells the Israeli... 

Turkey has shot down two Syrian warplanes in Idlib as part of its offensive in the area. The Syrian Army destroyed several Turkish drones on the same day Turkey’s UAVs penetrated Syria’s airspace well beyond Idlib. Turkish fighter jets intercepted two Syrian warplanes over Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib and shot them down, the state-run SANA news outlet reported, adding that both planes’...