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Field notes from the thermal edge.

Detection algorithms, fleet operations, C2 integration — lessons from building and deploying passive thermal counter-UAS, written by the people doing it.

Bar chart of unit costs: interceptor drones and a Shahed-136 compared with Patriot and THAAD missiles
STRATEGYBaruch GlickOctober 23, 20268 min

8 Shifts Shaping the Future of UAS Warfare

Where attack drones are heading in the next three to five years, the evidence for each shift, and what it means for counter-UAS.

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Bar chart of jet-powered Geran drones per month, June to September 2026
STRATEGYBaruch GlickOctober 23, 20265 min

Jet Drones and Silent Final Approaches: What Ukraine's September Data Means for Counter-UAS

Russia used about 3,900 jet Gerans in September, up from 350 in June, and their final approach increasingly needs no radio link.

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Sensor head of a vehicle-mounted counter-UAS mast with a radar panel and EO/IR turrets
TECHNOLOGYBaruch GlickOctober 14, 20265 min

AUSA 2026 Floor Notes: Cheap Drones, Layered Defences, and Cameras That Never Blink

Three days at the Army's biggest show in Washington: the drones got cheaper and quieter, and the defences got taller, wider and more integrated.

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Real GOTEAM thermal detection of a small distant drone against the sky, crosshair-locked with a zoom inset
TECHNOLOGYBaruch GlickOctober 6, 20266 min

More Pixels or More Eyes? SCD’s Mini Blackbird 1280 vs the Boson 640

A cooled 1280 × 1024 mid-wave core and an uncooled 640 × 512 long-wave core, compared for counter-drone detection.

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Thermal image of a quadcopter drone in flight above trees and parked vehicles
STRATEGYBaruch GlickOctober 6, 20269 min

Counter-UAS Buyer’s Guide 2026: How to Evaluate Drone Detection and Defence

What each sensor misses, what you may legally do about a drone, and how to run a pilot that tells you more than a demo.

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Real GOTEAM thermal detection of a small distant drone against the sky, crosshair-locked with a zoom inset
TECHNOLOGYBaruch GlickOctober 6, 20269 min

Blink and It’s Over: The Fatal Flaw of the Scanning Eye

A sweeping sensor is blind wherever it is not looking: a fast drone needs one blink, and a swarm turns every blink into a breach.

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Night view over a valley with cellular masts and an aircraft locked in a tracking box above the skyline
STRATEGYBaruch GlickAugust 19, 20266 min

The Drone Is Also a Subscriber

Neutralising a cellular-guided aircraft by working with the mobile network it flies on — and the exact point at which that stops working.

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Abstract illustration of a thermal horizon with ground range rings, an elevation sweep and a single locked contact above the skyline
STRATEGYGOTEAMAugust 13, 20266 min

The Drone Stopped Cooperating

What Ukraine has learned about counter-UAS — and what its list of failures actually sorts by

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Real GOTEAM thermal detection of a drone resolved against hot treeline clutter
STRATEGYBaruch GlickJuly 23, 20266 min

No single sensor wins the drone war

Australia is buying both the sensing layer and an affordable shooter, and together they show counter-UAS is an integration problem decided by its blind spot.

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Real GOTEAM thermal detection of a small distant drone against the sky, detected passively with no radar cue
REGULATIONBaruch GlickJuly 20, 20264 min

The rules just changed. Build your counter-drone plan around EO/IR.

The new C-UAS rule split the market in two: detection you can deploy today, and mitigation you wait in line for.

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Real GOTEAM thermal detection of a small distant drone against the sky, crosshair-locked with a zoom inset
TECHNOLOGYBaruch GlickJuly 19, 20264 min

The camera that can only look one way

Cooled-MWIR pan-tilt-zoom sensors are sold on range, but a moving camera watches one thing at a time; fixed-stare thermal plus AI is more robust.

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Thermal night view of a warship and a small fast craft, both AI-tracked
STRATEGYBaruch GlickJuly 12, 20265 min

How to sink a navy with a $500 drone

Ukraine is fighting Sun Tzu's war with uncrewed systems cheaper than the missiles fired at them: what that means for anyone on the water.

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Thermal night view of a vessel at sea with an AI targeting reticle
VIP & MARITIMEBaruch GlickJuly 12, 20263 min

Protecting VIPs from drones

What a warship-escorted superyacht tells us about protecting VIPs from drones, on land and especially at sea.

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Real annotated thermal frame — drone locked by the live tracker
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMBaruch GlickJune 12, 20263 min

A detection nobody can review is a rumor

In counter-UAS, the detection algorithm and the management system decide everything else.

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