Fabian Hinz

Ekonomichna pravda reports that the interceptor UAV made by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Swift Beat company is responsible for approximately 90% of Shahed OWA that are downed by UAVs. epravda.com.ua/oborona/milyar…

Russian saturation tactics, plus Ukr interceptor shortages: "Ukr air force data suggests about 15 per cent of the drones penetrated defences on average between April & June — rising from just 5 per cent in the previous three months." ft.com/content/1a19df…

Behind the warheads — Afshon Ostovar (@AOstovar) and Fabian Hinz (@fab_hinz) explore how politics, partnerships, and pressure shaped Iran’s missile ambitions. Listen here: ow.ly/pF4N30sOaXG

Russian TV aired a new report on Shahed/Geran production in Alabuga. The footage shows local engine manufacturing suggesting Russia may no longer depend on either Iranian or Chinese engines.

The US has unveiled the LUCAS UAV. The vehicle is almost identical clone of the Iranian Shahed 136 - or in other words - if Iran were to produce vehicles of American quality - this is what its vehicle would look like.

This is a pretty extensive seizure including anti-ship cruise missiles (C-802 derivatives), anti-ship ballistic missile seekers, surface-to-air missiles, C-UAV missiles (Ghaem 118), cruise missiles engines (Paveh), micro-cruise missiles and one-way attack UAVs (Shahed 107).

.@AirbusDefence teams with @KratosDefense to offer XQ-58A #Valkyrie to #Germany by 2029. Company spox tells me this is NOT related to @Team_Luftwaffe Electronic Combat Wingman (#ECW), which looks to field an unmanned adjunct to the @eurofighter EK for the same timeframe. Didn't…

The Air Force Command of Ukrainian Armed Forces has shared a very interesting video featuring various intercepts of Russian loitering munitions carried out by German-delivered Skynex systems and its effective AHEAD ammunition. So far, Germany has (officially) delivered two of…

NEW REPORT: Post-Attack Assessment of Shahid Meysami Research Center The Shahid Meysami (or Meisami) research center is located west of Tehran, near Karaj, at coordinates 35.764667, 51.03245 and is part of Iran’s nuclear weaponization complex, according to the Israel Defense…

Exclusive: A U.S. military radome was destroyed in Iran’s June 23 strike on Al Udeid. A detail absent from the Pentagon’s initial statements

The current Israeli assessment--which, imo, is the one that really matters--is that Iran's stockpile of HEU has partly survived but that it is currently inaccessible. Any attempt to access or move it will be detected and will trigger further military action.

"A senior Israeli official said Thursday that Israeli intelligence shows that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium had not been removed from Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan before the three nuclear sites were struck by the US last month" timesofisrael.com/senior-israeli…

IISS archive | December 2024: Find out more about the evolution of Houthi strategy at sea (November 2023–August 2024) and the types of weapons used. Read the report by @Wolf_Paes, Edward Beales, @fab_hinz & @albert_vidal_ : ➡ go.iiss.org/3ODCfwv

After several weeks of increasingly personalised attacks by Iranian officials and media, @rafaelmgrossi this week gently pushed back on @FaceTheNation. “Well- I, to an extent, I understand. They have been under attack. But, really, who can believe that this conflict happened…”-1

A lot of technical assessments of Iran’s nuclear program feel rushed. There’s an overreliance on fuel cycle basics and projections built on major unknowns while overlooking domestic factors eg institutional disruption, procurement challenges, and acute paranoia.

Report: russia has developed a new loitering munition called the V2U that, according to Ukrainian reports, can use AI to navigate and strike targets and may have a swarm capability. longwarjournal.org/archives/2025/…

Today the Houthis claimed they launched a Zulfiqar medium range ballistic missile at Israel’s Be’er Sheva, a strike the @IDF says was intercepted outside Israeli territory. Interestingly, the group also claimed to have carried out multiple missile and drone attacks over the past…

Shamkhani, apparently still alive, making an appearance at today's funerals.

Exceptionally fake. Hard to know where to even begin. - Planet satellite imagery of the site shows nothing. - Tall storage tanks in the back nowhere to be seen. - No explanation offered for how the missile would maintain a data link in the terminal phase. - Shadows look…