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A burning oil terminal following an air attack in St. Petersburg on Oct. 18.
WORLD / FOCUS
Oct 25, 2026
Secretive Ukrainian deep-strike unit behind rapid expansion of campaign
Ukraine’s ability to pummel targets well inside Russia has increased dramatically over the course of the war.
Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (right) shakes hands with Malaysian Defense Minister Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin at a signing ceremony at the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2026
Japan to provide Malaysia with counterdrone system
The government will spend ?1.65 billion on the system, marking its third provision of official security assistance to Malaysia.
The V-BAT uncrewed reconnaissance aircraft introduced by the Maritime Self-Defense Forces on the Kumano destroyer in Sagami Bay in June
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 5, 2026
MSDF deploys V-BAT uncrewed surveillance aircraft
The aircraft can autonomously patrol predetermined routes, collecting surveillance footage and transmitting it to a command vessel in real time.
Environment Minister Hiroyoshi Sasagawa emphasized in an interview in Tokyo on Monday that prompt action regarding bears will give "a sense of security" to the public.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2026
Government eyes supporting use of AI and drones to manage bear population
Environment Minister Hiroyoshi Sasagawa emphasized that prompt action regarding bears will give “a sense of security” to the public.
People try to evacuate an administrative building hit by a Russian jet-powered drone strike in Kyiv on Monday.
WORLD
Sep 29, 2026
Kyiv Science Academy hit, 10 dead as Russian jet-drones strike across Ukraine
In recent weeks, Russia has begun hitting Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with faster, high-flying jet drones.
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 27, 2026
Japan Defense Ministry to support startups in UAV development
The three main research targets will be incorporating domestic components, increasing efficiency in supply warehouses and reducing aircraft noise.
Yoshitaka Shindo, chairperson of the Liberal Democratic Party’s foreign residents policy headquarters, speaks at a meeting of its project team on national security and land legislation on Thursday at the party headquarters in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 25, 2026
LDP panel calls for permit system for key land acquisitions
In the draft, the team also pushed for a ban on individuals working for foreign governments from acquiring land deemed critical to national security.
Military police and response vehicles near the site where, according to the Lithuanian national crisis management center, a NATO fighter jet shot down a drone near Pratkunai village, Lithuania, on Sept. 15
WORLD / Society
Sep 22, 2026
Lithuania plans hardened energy substation as grids increasingly targeted
Plans include fencing strong enough to resist an explosives-laden truck, sensors searching for tunnels, and concrete “sarcophagi” for transformers.
Members of a local electoral commission and a voter sit under portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Denis Pushilin, Moscow-installed leader of the Russian-controlled parts of the Donetsk region, at a polling station on the final day of Russia's three-day parliamentary election in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2026
Drones hit Moscow as Russians go to the polls
The ruling United Russia party, which backs President Vladimir Putin, has won every parliamentary election in Russia since 2003.
People walk past a sign reading "No drone zone" in an alley in Beijing on Sept. 14.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 20, 2026
Drone owners rush to offload devices ahead of Beijing ban
New rules in the Chinese capital ban not just the flying of unmanned aerial vehicles but the possession or storage of them.
Paramedics prepare to transport a resident injured during a Russian drone strike on a gas station in Kyiv on Tuesday.
WORLD
Sep 16, 2026
Ukraine races to counter Russia’s jet-powered drone attacks
Recent attacks underscore the challenges Ukraine will faces with no clear answer to Moscow’s faster, more powerful drones.
An Air Self-Defense Force unmanned Global Hawk ??reconnaissance drone stationed at the Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2026
Japan says reconnaissance drone crashed off Tottori
The ASDF said debris spotted and photographed floating in waters off the prefecture was judged to be the drone.
Companies that have adopted the use of drones in their business, particularly those in sectors such as construction and tourism, are being affected by no-fly zones being widened following legal amendments that took effect in July.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Sep 14, 2026
Okinawan businesses lament stricter rules for drone flights
A recent revision to 91AV原创 drone law has widened no-fly zones, with some of them now covering entire towns that host military structures.
Japan is widening its use of drones as a tool to keep bears away from human settlements.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2026
Japan adds drones to arsenal against bears
Beyond their use in aerial searches for bears, drones are proving effective as a preventive tool to help keep the animals away from human settlements.
Security personnel fortify a police post with Ukraine-style mesh barriers as a new line of defense against militant drone and aerial attacks at Bara in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Aug. 4.
WORLD
Sep 9, 2026
Pakistan police counter drone attacks with Ukraine-style nets
Lessons from the war in Ukraine are reverberating in Pakistan, where security forces are improvising new defenses against Islamist insurgents.
A man looks on as smoke rises over a warehouse that was hit by a Russian drone strike in Kyiv region on Aug. 27.
WORLD
Sep 6, 2026
Kyiv adapts to new reality of life under constant Russian drone attack
Since late August, Russia has ramped up the frequency of its air assaults on the Ukrainian capital using jet-powered drones that are harder to intercept.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (left) and Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt speak at a news conference following a drone incident at Leipzig airport, in Berlin, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Sep 2, 2026
Germany blames Russia for airport drone incident and hits back with sanctions
Russian President Vladimir Putin later branded the sanctions move as a “mistake.”
A worker manufactures and assembles a drone at a Quantum Systems facility in Germany on Aug. 25.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 31, 2026
CIA-backed investor helped top German drones firm break into U.S.
Quantum Systems’ co-CEO says CIA-linked investor In-Q-Tel helped it open doors in Washington and win work with the agency as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) speaks at a meeting on countermeasures against CBRNE terrorism, at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 25, 2026
Japan to set up expert panel on anti-terrorism
The government will establish an expert panel to improve initial responses to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive attacks.
LG Energy Solution battery cells displayed at the InterBattery exhibition in Seoul on March 11
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 19, 2026
LG Energy may supply batteries for U.S. drones in pivot to defense
The potential shift highlights broader moves by commercial companies as Washington pushes to replenish munitions used in the Iran and Ukraine wars.

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