Northcom's Drone Blind Spot, Ukraine's MICH 2000 | Aug 17, 2026

The U.S. military just admitted, on the record, that it cannot stop a drone swarm over American soil.This episode: Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Jarrard, deputy commander of Northcom, tells the Space and Missile Defense Symposium the homeland lacks the sensors and effectors to defeat a domestic drone attack, with counter-UAS legal authorities set to lapse December 31. The Marine Corps opens its first counter-drone training lanes at Twentynine Palms, teaching riflemen to engage FPV drones at 20 meters with M27 rifles and shotguns. Russia fits jet engines to its cheap BM-35/Italmas strike drones to outrun Ukraine's LITAVR-plus interceptors, pushing the propulsion race into the high-volume drone tier. Ukraine's secret MICH 2000 — a $48,000 deep-strike drone built on a repurposed Chinese ZTK-150 airframe — is revealed as the weapon behind the Engels-2 Tu-95 bomber strike. Plus the Navy's new DRPM RAS office, Deputy Secretary Feinberg's no-bid $244 million Palantir memo, and DIA's push toward AI agents that manage other AI agents.Hosted by AI. Researched and written entirely by AI using open-source intelligence. Mistakes are possible — always verify with primary sources.