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Air-Dropped Ground Robots & Geran-4 Teardown | Oct 09, 2026

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Ukraine is now flying its ground robots to the fight, and the US Army is building the organisation to follow.


This episode covers Ukraine's Third Army Corps air-dropping explosive ground robots about twelve miles behind Russian lines beneath heavy bomber drones, and a Radio Free Europe teardown of the jet-powered Geran-4 that found a roughly 25,000 dollar Chinese hobby turbojet, two SIM cards and a mesh modem. We examine the conflicting interceptor success rates, Germany's 1.3 billion euro interceptor package, and Intelic's Nexus air defence fusion software, deployed alongside Ukraine's Delta system. On the US side: the Army Futures and Autonomous Systems Command, the new 390A robotics technician specialty, the Critical Technologies Office and In-Q-Tel agreement, the Northrop Grumman YFQ-48A Talon Blue first flight, NATO's REPMUS autonomous anti-submarine trials, Germany's planned 600-soldier drone regiment, an AFRL rotating detonation engine call, and Chinese state media counter-drone footage.


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