Timur Fatkullin is a Ukrainian flying ace who uses his acrobatic flying skills honed before the war to shoot down Russian drones.

When I fly close to the target, I can’t engage because there’s houses or infrastructure underneath. So we keep flying, keeping it in the searchlight, in the spotlight. And we’re not even, because it’s like 200 kilos target and we’re six tons, and it’s black Shahed…

En Ukraine, les actions dans la profondeur et les actions hybrides constituent les deux faces d’une même stratégie, utilisée de part et d’autre de la ligne de front, visant à affaiblir voire à faire s’effondrer le dispositif de combat adverse.

L’article Frapper l’arrière : profondeur et hybridité dans le conflit en Ukraine est apparu en premier sur La Revue d'Histoire Militaire.

The Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft established radar contact with a target located above the Ukrainian territory. The pilots were authorized to engage the drones, but they did not fire on the drone. A Russian drone, part of a swarm of 15 Russian OWA (One Way Attack) drones crashed in the municipality of Galați, Romania, early in […]

“We’ve destroyed Iran’s defense industrial base, their ability to reconstitute those capabilities for years to come,” said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine.

“Ukraine has been countering [Iranian drones] for years [and] all features of this defense are of interest to the Gulf,” Samuel Bendett, adviser at Center for New America Security, told Breaking Defense.

The UAE showed that its AH-64 Apaches and F-16s are actively flying in the counter-drone role, tackling Iranian drones before they can reach their targets. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) released on Mar. 8, 2026, a video showing footage from an electro-optical system of eight Iranian Shahed-type One-Way Attack (OWA) drones being shot down. Based […]