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In 2024 and 2025, I served for six months as an international volunteer on a first-person view attack drone team in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. My team was deployed in the Donbas region, in one of the hottest sectors of the front. When I joined the team, I was excited to work with a cutting-edge tool. By the end of my deployment, I was a bit disillusioned. Let me tell you why.

A new variant of the Russian Pantsir air defence combat vehicle heavily optimised to neutralise large swarms of hostile drones has completed development, and is set to equip the Russian Armed Forces as they face growing numbers of enemy unmanned aircraft in the Ukrainian theatre. The new variant, designated the Pantsir-SMD, integrates lighter shorter ranged surface-to-air missiles that are expected to be significantly cheaper to produce, while quadrupling its missile carriage.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force 2nd Air Brigade has been confirmed to have begun to deploy J-20 fifth generation fighters, marking a major improvement for the unit’s capabilities which will transform how it operates in future. Based at Yulong Airbase in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia under the Northern Theatre Command, the brigade is located approximately 400 kilometres from Beijing, and bears responsibility for guarding the Chinese capital.