Jasper Lortije
↗Jasper has spent more than a decade building drones. He holds an MSc in aerospace engineering from TU Delft and built GNSS-denied navigation systems for NATO.
The math of air defense is broken
Hostile drones are cheap, fast, and everywhere. Legacy air defense was never built for this: million-dollar effectors against low-cost threats, one shot against many. Defending the sky now demands an answer that scales.
1x legacy effector$1,000,000+
= same spend
x20 hostile uas<$50,000 each
There are 125,000 sites to protect worldwide.
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All 54 reported incidents and sources
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Drones detonate at presidential event in Caracas
Avenida Bolivar, Caracas · Venezuela
Two explosive-laden drones detonated near Maduro during a Caracas parade, injuring seven soldiers and halting the event.
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Airport shut 33 hours by drone sightings
Gatwick Airport · United Kingdom
About 1,000 flights cancelled or diverted and 140,000 passengers hit over 33 hours. No one was ever charged.
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Departures halted after drone sighting
Heathrow Airport · United Kingdom
Takeoffs stopped about an hour as a precaution weeks after Gatwick; police opened a full criminal investigation.
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Drone sightings halt flights at Newark
Newark Liberty Airport · United States
Drone spotted 3,500 ft over nearby Teterboro halted Newark takeoffs and held arrivals; one pilot reported a 30 ft near miss.
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Drone halts Germany's busiest airport
Frankfurt Airport · Germany
Operations suspended about an hour; 143 flights cancelled and 48 aircraft diverted after pilots reported a 1.5 m drone.
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Drones shut Saudi East-West oil pipeline
East-West pipeline, Afif · Saudi Arabia
Armed drones hit pump stations 8 and 9, forcing Aramco to shut the 1,200 km crude pipeline to Yanbu.
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Drone sightings disrupt 63 flights at Changi
Changi Airport · Singapore
Repeated drone sightings closed a runway and delayed or diverted 63 flights at Changi over one week.
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Ten drones spark fire at Shaybah oil field
Shaybah oil field · Saudi Arabia
Houthi drones flew about 1,000 km to hit the Shaybah NGL plant, sparking a limited fire; output unaffected.
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Drones knock out half of Saudi oil output
Abqaiq processing facility · Saudi Arabia
Strikes on Abqaiq and Khurais cut 5.7 million bpd, over half of Saudi output and about 5 percent of world supply.
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Drone reports shut Madrid airspace
Madrid Barajas Airport · Spain
Flights suspended about two hours after two flight crews reported a drone near the runway; 26 flights diverted.
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Drone rigged with copper wire targets substation
Hershey, Pennsylvania · United States
DJI Mavic 2 trailing copper wire crashed near a Pennsylvania substation in a likely attempt to short-circuit transformers.
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Drone sets airliner ablaze at Abha airport
Abha Airport · Saudi Arabia
Houthi drone strike set a civilian Airbus A320 on fire on the apron of the regional airport.
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Sea drone targets tank farm at top oil port
Ras Tanura port · Saudi Arabia
Drone launched from the sea targeted a crude tank farm at the world's largest oil export port; loadings unaffected.
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Cartel drone bombs wound police in Michoacan town
El Aguaje, Michoacan · Mexico
Drones rigged with explosives attacked police clearing cartel roadblocks near El Aguaje, wounding two officers.
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Explosives drone hits Erbil airport
Erbil International Airport · Iraq
Explosives-laden drone hit the coalition military section of the airport, damaging a building; no casualties.
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Drones drop explosives on Jammu airport base
Jammu Airport · India
Two drones dropped explosives on the air force station at Jammu airport, damaging a building roof and injuring two personnel.
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Drone strike on Abu Dhabi fuel depot kills 3
ADNOC fuel depot, Musaffah · United Arab Emirates
Drones hit fuel tankers at an ADNOC depot in Musaffah and an airport site, killing 3 people and wounding 6.
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Aramco fuel depot ablaze near F1 circuit
North Jeddah Bulk Plant · Saudi Arabia
Houthi drone and missile barrage set the North Jeddah fuel depot ablaze about 11 km from the F1 circuit during practice.
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Shahed drones hit Kyiv apartments, four killed
Kyiv · Ukraine
Five Shahed drones struck central Kyiv at dawn; one collapsed part of an apartment block, killing four residents.
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Drone sighting diverts six flights
Dublin Airport · Ireland
Six inbound flights diverted to Shannon and Belfast in a 40 minute halt; one of six drone shutdowns at Dublin in early 2023.
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Drone crashes into Moscow business tower
Moscow City · Russia
Jamming sent a drone into the IQ-Quarter tower housing government ministries; Vnukovo airport briefly halted flights.
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Drones hit Danube grain port, exports halted
Izmail Port · Ukraine
Shahed drones destroyed grain warehouses at Ukraine's main Danube export hub, halting ships and lifting global wheat prices.
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Record 75 Shahed drones target Kyiv
Kyiv · Ukraine
Six-hour barrage on Holodomor remembrance day; 74 of 75 drones downed, debris injured five and cut power to 17,000 people.
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Baltic fuel terminal set ablaze by drones
Ust-Luga Terminal · Russia
Explosions and fire forced Novatek to suspend its Ust-Luga fuel export terminal 170 km southwest of St Petersburg.
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Black Sea refinery halted by drone strike
Tuapse Refinery · Russia
Fire destroyed the vacuum unit at Rosneft's Black Sea refinery; processing stopped with repairs lasting about three months.
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Drone strike on oil depot burns Kharkiv homes
Kharkiv · Ukraine
Burning fuel from a struck oil depot flooded a residential street, killing seven people including three children.
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Drones disable units at major Ryazan refinery
Ryazan Refinery · Russia
Strike set Rosneft's Ryazan plant ablaze and disabled two of four primary units at Russia's fourth-largest refinery.
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Drone strike on gas field kills 4 workers
Khor Mor gas field · Iraq
Drone hit the Khor Mor complex, killing 4 workers and cutting about 2,500 MW of power generation in the region.
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Drones slam into Kazan residential towers
Kazan · Russia
Eight drones struck Kazan; six hit residential buildings including the 37-story Blue Sky tower, 1,000 km from the front.
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Drone strikes firefighting plane over LA wildfire
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles · United States
Civilian drone punched a hole in a CL-415 Super Scooper wing over the Palisades fire, grounding the aircraft for five days.
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Drone halts NFL playoff game in Baltimore
M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore · United States
Playoff game paused as an unregistered drone flew 400 feet above the packed stadium; operator pleaded guilty to federal charges.
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Drone blast pierces Chernobyl radiation shield
Chernobyl Nuclear Plant · Ukraine
Explosive drone tore a hole in the New Safe Confinement roof and set it on fire. IAEA says the shelter lost containment function.
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Drone barrage hits Port Sudan airport and depots
Port Sudan · Sudan
Days of RSF drone strikes set the country's largest fuel depot ablaze and hit the airport, port area and a power substation.
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Moscow airports shut, 60,000 passengers hit
Moscow Airports · Russia
All four Moscow airports closed over consecutive nights before Victory Day; about 350 flights and 60,000 passengers disrupted.
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Record 728 drones launched in one night
Lutsk · Ukraine
Russia fired 728 drones and 13 missiles in one night, the war's largest barrage, aimed mainly at the western city of Lutsk.
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Drone wave shuts Kurdistan oil fields
Sarsang oil field · Iraq
Strikes over three days hit five fields including US-operated Sarsang, cutting regional crude output about 70 percent.
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Russian drones cross into Poland, airports shut
Eastern Poland · Poland
About 19 Russian drones entered Polish airspace overnight. NATO jets downed several; Warsaw, Modlin, Lublin and Rzeszow closed.
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Large drones shut Copenhagen four hours
Copenhagen Airport · Denmark
Two to three large drones in controlled airspace halted all flights for nearly four hours; around 15 flights diverted.
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Oslo airspace closed by drone sightings
Oslo Airport · Norway
Airspace shut about three hours overnight after two drone sightings; inbound flights diverted, same night as Copenhagen.
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Drones close joint civil-military airport
Aalborg Airport · Denmark
Multiple drones over the airfield for about three hours; three flights diverted. Second Danish airport shut in a week.
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Houthi drone hits Eilat boardwalk, 22 injured
Eilat · Israel
Explosive drone from Yemen struck beside a shopping center on the resort boardwalk after interceptors missed. 22 people hurt.
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Munich shut twice in two days by drones
Munich Airport · Germany
Sightings near both runways halted flights on consecutive nights; about 9,500 passengers hit by cancellations and diversions.
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Drone and missile barrage blacks out Kyiv
Kyiv · Ukraine
Overnight drone and missile attack on energy infrastructure cut power to parts of Kyiv and disrupted water supply before winter.
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Drone barrage cuts power across Odesa region
Odesa region · Ukraine
Overnight Russian drone attack on energy facilities cut power to hundreds of thousands of people across about 50 towns.
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Drone halts Berlin flights for two hours
Berlin Brandenburg Airport · Germany
Takeoffs and landings stopped nearly two hours; about a dozen flights diverted to Dresden, Leipzig, Hamburg and Hanover.
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Drones close Brussels and Liege airports
Brussels Airport · Belgium
Zaventem halted twice in one evening; 54 flights cancelled and 24 diverted; Liege also suspended traffic after drone reports.
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Drones halt civil-military air traffic
Eindhoven Airport · Netherlands
All traffic at the joint civilian-military airfield suspended about two hours after multiple drone sightings.
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Gas field strike blacks out Kurdistan
Khor Mor gas field · Iraq
Night drone strike halted Khor Mor gas output, cutting power generation across the Kurdistan region by about 80 percent.
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FAA grounds all El Paso flights over drone incursion
El Paso International Airport · United States
FAA grounded all flights for a planned 10 days over cartel drones and a military counter-drone laser; lifted within hours.
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Drones knock out one of Russia's largest refineries
Kirishi refinery · Russia
Strike set fires and damaged three of four crude units at the Kirishi plant, which refines about 350,000 barrels per day.
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Suspected combat drone shuts Vilnius airspace
Vilnius Airport · Lithuania
Radar track from Belarus closed airport airspace about an hour; NATO jets scrambled and leaders moved to safe locations.
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Pilot drone reports halt Munich flights
Munich Airport · Germany
Flights suspended about an hour after two pilots reported a drone; more than 20 arrivals diverted to nearby airports.
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Explosive-laden drone found at cargo hub
Leipzig/Halle Airport · Germany
FPV drone carrying 800 g of PETN found near a Ukrainian cargo jet; airport closed and flights diverted; sabotage probed.
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Houthis claim drone hit on Jazan refinery
Jazan refinery · Saudi Arabia
Fire erupted at the Jazan refinery after a claimed Houthi drone strike; Aramco extinguished the blaze.
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