Drone Warfare

Musk says Starshield limits are Washington's call; Rubio says the slowed service is commercial Starlink. Until one network is named, nobody can be held to the answer on Ukraine's cap.

The cap is on how fast a terminal moves, not how fast data flows. That one setting hobbles interceptor drones, and nobody on the record owns the order.

In one week, drone strikes on merchant ships moved from 70 to 80 nautical miles off Bulgaria to just past its 12-mile line, the edge of the only waters insurers left off the war map and a gap NATO's treaty does not clearly cover.

Anduril's new interceptor family bets that one common upper stage on 10- to 21-inch boosters can be built by the thousands. Set against the Pentagon's own PAC-3 MSE numbers, the price targets look less firm, and the missile has yet to fly.

The Kremlin is weighing a full diesel-export ban as drone strikes deep inside Russia turn a battlefield tactic into a problem at the pump.

Nearly 200 drones were downed over Moscow as Kyiv hit the Gazprom Neft refinery again, and Zelensky said it is time the war ended.

Rationed to 20 liters a week and watching pumps run empty, Russian-occupied Crimea is living through its worst fuel crisis since 2014 as Ukrainian drones close the peninsula's supply routes one by one.