UKRAINIAN DRONE UNITS DECISIVELY BEAT A U.S. ARMORED BRIGADE IN A MAJOR EXERCISE IN GERMANY, EXPOSING GAPS IN AMERICA'S ADAPTATION TO MODERN DRONE WARFARE, WITH UKRAINIAN OPERATORS QUICKLY DETECTING U.S. VEHICLES AND SIMULATING THEIR DESTRUCTION WITH EXPLOSIVE AND FPV DRONES SO EFFECTIVELY THAT U.S. UNITS HAD TO REPEATEDLY 'RESPAWN' - WSJ

Ukraine has the world’s largest and most advanced drone warfare capability. We are offering this capability to our partners through the Drone Deal initiative. I’m grateful to everyone who has already joined this initiative and to those who are joining it. Drone Deal initiative it’s not only about buying drones, but also about co-production – fast-track access to the means of protection of critical infrastructure, air-defense and security cooperation. From a speech at the NATO Defense Industry Forum. (4/5)

🚨🇨🇳 PENTAGON'S NIGHTMARE: CHINA MAPS OUT SIXTH-GENERATION FIGHTERS FOR SATELLITE-DENIED DRONE WARFARE China is preparing its future fighters for a battlefield where satellite navigation is jammed, pilots face extreme workloads and unmanned wingmen must reorganize as conditions change. A new paper from Shenyang researchers outlines an aircraft capable of taking over its own flight and commanding an entire manned-unmanned formation instead of fighting alone. 🔸 The paper was led by Zhang Dong, chief flight-control designer at the Shenyang Aircraft Design and Research Institute, and published in the peer-reviewed journal Aircraft Design in August. 🔸 The institute is associated with the next-generation prototype widely known as the J-50. However, the paper does not name the aircraft or confirm that any of the proposed technologies have already been installed on it. 🔸 Automatic flight controls could take over if the pilot loses consciousness or faces an extreme workload. The system would keep the aircraft stable and potentially allow it to continue its mission while the pilot recovers or concentrates on higher-level decisions. 🔸 China is also exploring quantum-navigation technologies for operations where satellite positioning is unavailable. These could help future fighters determine their location after GPS, BeiDou or other satellite signals have been jammed or disrupted. 🔸 The most ambitious concept involves commanding reconfigurable formations of unmanned wingmen. Drones assigned to attack, reconnaissance and protection could change roles and reorganize during a mission as the tactical situation evolves. 🔸 Under this model, the pilot becomes the commander of a distributed combat network. The aircraft provides communications, sensor fusion and decision support while automation manages routine flying and helps coordinate multiple unmanned systems. If these concepts reach service, the Pentagon would face more than another stealth fighter. It would confront an airborne combat network capable of navigating under satellite denial, adapting its drone formation in real time and sending unmanned systems forward while the crewed aircraft remains farther from danger. The fighter would become the command center for an entire formation designed to keep fighting even when navigation signals and conventional formations break down. Which will matter more in the next air war: the fighter itself or the drones it controls?

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Vladimir Putin believes Russia is at war with Europe. His armies are already well-practised in asymmetric drone warfare, and they are learning all the time. Europe, by contrast, is unprepared

Florida is emerging as a major hub for companies financing the burgeoning new defense business, which is increasingly turning to startups as artificial intelligence and drone warfare reshape the battlefield.

Thanks to the plugged-in folks at Bloomberg for giving me the chance to ring some alarm bells that I think everyone needs to hear: “We are really looking at the weaponization of certain critical raw materials in the supply chain and it's really a profound national security interest,” I told Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway on their Odd Lots podcast. “And the metals we need to do something about that are the same metals that are needed for drone warfare or the defense from drone warfare. So we're seeing a sort of perfect storm in a balkanized world economy where demand for certain critical metals is going to infinity.” “We need to mine as much copper in the next 18 years as we did in the last 10,000 years, just to maintain global 3% GDP growth without the electrification of the world economy…In the last 30 years, all the capital on Wall Street went into sexy technology like the Internet and broadband and Netflix and wireless but when all the money goes in that direction, we didn't put money into basic raw materials, which are the foundation on which everything sits.” Huge thanks to @bloomberg’s hugely talented @TheStalwart, @TracyAlloway, @kevlloydlozano, @carmenarmen, Cale Brooks and of course the one and only @ryanchilcote for making it all happen. For more about how we got here and how, maybe, foresight and better technology can help us find our way out, listen to the episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify, youtube or at: @IvanhoeMines_ @ivanhoeelectric @SunriseMetals @IPulseGroup @IvanhoeAtlantic @bluesparkenergy