50,000 drones

Is that a lot?

Germany is funding ⁠50,000 ⁠attack drones for Ukraine, a ⁠source familiar with the matter said, in an order that marks ​one of the biggest known purchases of drones for Kyiv by a Western government…

SHRIKE CATCHES PENTAGON’S EYE – The Shrike, a ⁠low-cost drone that has been deployed in Ukraine since 2023, recently gained prominence overseas.

A ⁠version called Shrike 10-F produced by SkyFall with UK company Skycutter recently topped the leaderboard in the first round of a Pentagon-run competition as part of a $1.1 billion initiative to buy hundreds of thousands of one-way attack drones. Auterion said its software was being used in several entries in the competition.

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