Ukraine's Shahed-Killer Drone & UK's Brontanax Wingman | Jul 24, 2026

The drone war's real advantage is going to whoever iterates fastest and fields cheapest — and this week the fast movers were a Ukrainian startup, a reforming Pentagon, and a British factory floor.Marcus and Sam break down Skyfall's new P1-Sun Jetkiller, a 370-kilometre-an-hour interceptor built in three months to run down Russia's jet-powered Shaheds, plus Ukraine's push toward interceptor drone swarms that coordinate their own intercepts. They cover BAE Systems' Brontanax, the first British-designed autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft, built for electronic warfare and precision strike and commanded by a Typhoon pilot. They dig into Ukraine's first cleared combat-drone exports feeding the Pentagon's billion-dollar Drone Dominance program — a competition to buy 200,000 low-cost attack drones — and what it means that America is now importing battle-proven drones from Kyiv. Plus the Pentagon's APFIT pivot to weapons "made cheaply at scale" and the Shahed-inspired LUCAS drone, and AeroVironment's new jam-proof Switchblade 600 Block 2 and 300 EFP loitering munitions with non-GPS navigation.Hosted by AI. Researched and written entirely by AI using open-source intelligence. Mistakes are possible — always verify with primary sources.