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Defense & Combat
Langley's 17-Night Drone Siege: What Happened, What Failed, What DoD Still Doesn't Know
For 17 consecutive nights in December 2023, unidentified drone swarms penetrated restricted airspace over Joint Base Langley-Eustis, forcing the relocation of F-22 Raptors — while the military's C-UAS authorities and tools proved wholly inadequate to respond.
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Policy & Regulation
New Jersey's 2024 Drone Wave: What Federal Investigators Actually Found
In late 2024, weeks of nightly drone sightings across New Jersey and the Northeast triggered a federal investigation, thousands of public tips, and emergency airspace restrictions—before a four-agency joint statement concluded most reports were misidentified manned aircraft, with no foreign nexus and no national security threat.
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Defense & Combat
Operation Spiderweb: Ukraine's Deep Strike on Russia's Strategic Bomber Bases
On June 1, 2025, Ukraine's SBU launched 117 FPV drones from cargo trucks parked near Russian air bases — some 4,500 km from the front — destroying at minimum 12 strategic aircraft that Russia cannot replace.
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Defense & Combat
Abqaiq-Khurais, September 2019: How 18 Drones Erased 5% of Global Oil Supply
On September 14, 2019, a salvo of 18 UAVs and 7 cruise missiles struck Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq and Khurais facilities, eliminating 5.7 million barrels per day — the largest single-day oil supply disruption in history — while billions in US-supplied Patriot air defenses failed to intercept a single weapon.
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Defense & Combat
Venezuela's 2018 Caracas Drone Attack: First Confirmed UAS Assassination Attempt
On August 4, 2018, two commercially available DJI Matrice 600 hexacopters loaded with C-4 targeted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at a military parade in Caracas — the first confirmed drone assassination attempt against a sitting head of state, executed for roughly $10,000 in off-the-shelf hardware.
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Counter-UAS
Counter-UAS at Airports: Why the U.S. Still Can't Stop a Gatwick-Style Closure
The 2018 Gatwick drone incident cost airlines £50 million and stranded 110,000 passengers — and the perpetrators were never found. Five years on, U.S. airports face hundreds of incursions annually while the FAA still cannot neutralize a drone on its own. Here's how the technology and authority fit together.
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Counter-UAS
Drones Over the Wall: How Aerial Contraband Became a Global Prison Crisis
In a single year, Georgia's Department of Corrections linked drones to $7 million in contraband and 876 confiscated cell phones. Drone sightings at UK prisons rose 770% in four years. This is the legal, technical, and operational battle to stop aerial smuggling — and why it took so long to begin.
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Counter-UAS
Counter-UAS for Stadiums and Mass Events: How the U.S. Closes the Airspace Gap
Federal no-fly zones have covered NFL stadiums for years, but local police could only watch unauthorized drones — not stop them. Here's how the legal authority gap developed, how the World Cup became a live test for the workaround, and what still isn't solved.
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Counter-UAS
Soft Targets in the Air Age: The Drone Threat to U.S. Critical Infrastructure
From a copper-wire-rigged DJI Mavic to a C-4-loaded platform aimed at a Nashville substation, drone attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure have moved from theoretical to documented — yet 93% of nuclear sites, 90% of oil refineries, and most major airports remain without active counter-UAS protection.
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Counter-UAS
DroneDNA and Sensor Fusion: Inside Dedrone’s Airspace Security Platform
Dedrone, now a division of Axon after a 2024 acquisition, has spent a decade building passive RF detection infrastructure deployed at military bases, airports, stadiums, and prisons across six G7 governments. Understanding where detection ends and the legal wall against mitigation begins is essential context for the C-UAS market.
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Counter-UAS
What a Seized Drone Tells Investigators — and What It Doesn’t
From encrypted GPS logs and chip-off hardware extraction to battlefield component teardowns linking Shahed drones to U.S. suppliers, drone forensics has become a critical investigative discipline — one still building its standards as the threat accelerates.
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Counter-UAS
DroneGun-Class Jammers: How Handheld RF Disruptors Work — and Who Can Legally Use Them
Handheld RF jammers like DroneShield's DroneGun Mk4 can force a drone into a controlled landing — a capability Ukraine has deployed by the thousands against Russian FPV attacks. In the United States, federal statute locks this technology behind a short list of federal agencies.
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