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2 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Ryan Pickrell |Sinéad Baker |Henry Blodget
Ukraine's defense industry says it is prepared to produce much more weaponry than it is currently making. The problem is that the Ukrainian government can't afford the multi-billion-dollar price tag for production. But it says there's a straightforward solution. Ukraine's defense industry has boomed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with manufacturers ranging from huge outfits to small companies based in people's garages.
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2 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Ryan Pickrell |Chris Panella |Sinéad Baker |Henry Blodget
Ukraine's shocking drone attack on the Russian bomber fleet and other strategic aircraft shows just how vulnerable US bases and planes, especially those in the Pacific, could be to a similar kind of attack by an adversary.
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2 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Ryan Pickrell |Sinéad Baker |Henry Blodget
The attack drones that Ukraine used to hit Russian aircraft at a string of bases turned to AI to find and strike their targets when they lost signal, Ukraine's security service said. The Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, said in a Wednesday update on its Operation Spiderweb attack that some drones, upon losing signal, "switched to performing a mission using artificial intelligence along a pre-planned route.
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2 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Ryan Pickrell |Jake Epstein |Henry Blodget
Newly captured satellite imagery captures the aftermath of the wide-scale Ukrainian drone attack that targeted multiple Russian airbases on Sunday. The photos, taken on Wednesday by US commercial satellite imaging company Maxar Technologies and obtained by Business Insider, appear to show damaged and destroyed bomber aircraft at the Belaya airbase in Russia's central Irkutsk region, more than 2,500 miles from the Ukrainian border.
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2 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Ryan Pickrell |Sinéad Baker |Henry Blodget
Ukraine launched a daring attack on multiple Russian airfields on Sunday, claiming hits on 41 Russian aircraft, including certain strategic planes that aren't easily replaced. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said that its operatives positioned drones close to airfields in trucks before releasing them to target Russian aircraft in "Operation Spiderweb." Videos, including drone footage obtained by Business Insider, showed burning Russian bombers.
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3 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Ryan Pickrell |Sinéad Baker |Henry Blodget
Ukrainian soldiers are increasingly arming ground robots with rifles and other weapons, letting them fire at the Russians rather than putting themselves in harm's way. The robots are part of Ukraine's ongoing innovation race with Russia, a rush to develop new technology to fight back against Russia's invasion before the enemy can.
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3 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Ryan Pickrell |Jake Epstein |Henry Blodget
What kind of rifle are elite Polish paratroopers jumping into combat with? A relatively new homemade gun that they say offers flexibility and mobility needed at a time when modern warfare is showing that light infantry has a key part to play. Poland's 6th Airborne Brigade previously carried the 96 Beryl, a rifle developed by the Polish firearms manufacturer FB Radom in the 1990s. Now, the brigade is fully armed with FB Radom's newer MSBS Grot, a family of modular rifles.
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3 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Ryan Pickrell |Kelsey Baker |Henry Blodget
The Marine Corps will soon rebrand a storied aviation squadron as its pilots switch to a new jet designed for next-level warfare. Amid ongoing changes to the Corps, the North Carolina-based Marine Attack Squadron 231 will be renamed "Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 231." The squadron, identified as the service's oldest flying squadron, was formed just after World War I, and it adopted the Harrier jump jet in the mid-1980s.
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3 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Ryan Pickrell |Jake Epstein |Henry Blodget
In a war where tanks struggle to move without drawing the attention of a drone, missions sometimes fall more to small, agile, light infantry units. That's one of many lessons that NATO militaries are taking from the Ukraine war. A top Polish general overseeing the country's paratroopers said that a big takeaway is that light infantry skills, like those brought by airborne forces, still matter. Brig. Gen.
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4 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Ryan Pickrell |Jake Epstein |Henry Blodget
Finnish soldiers are training with basic navigation tools — paper maps and compasses — to make sure they can operate in environments where enemy activity means GPS isn't available to them, a top military officer told Business Insider. Col. Matti Honko, the commanding officer of Finland's Guard Jaeger Regiment, said that an important lesson from Ukraine is that the satellite-navigation tool known as the Global Positioning System, or simply GPS, is vulnerable to interference.
