This edition tracks how the war continues to shift toward robotics-driven warfare, summarizing the tech battlefield of 2025.
In the December issue:
— December’s deep-strike campaign hit the widest range of Russian energy targets so far.
— Logistics UGVs as Modular Strike Systems — UGV striking a fortified Russian infantry position with 12 anti-tank mines
— Russian Molniya-2: kamikaze, ISR and minelaying — how modular upgrades turned Molniya-2 into a reusable reconnaissance and remote-mining platform, now functioning on Starlink.
— Russian UGVs in high-risk engineering roles — replacing infantry and engineer units in contested zones.
— Low-tech vs high-tech threats — from anti-drone nets to containers on tanks, we look at how both sides are improvising against FPVs and fiber-optic drones in the absence of scalable active protection.
— Black Sea: from shadow fleet to submarines — underwater drones disabling a Kalibr-armed submarine at Novorossiysk, alongside continued pressure on Russia’s shadow fleet and maritime logistics.
— Ukrainian company STETMAN and UASAT LEO — development of a sovereign low-Earth-orbit satellite constellation.