08/16/2026
Britain just gave Ukraine the manufacturing rights to Stone Cloak, a tablet-sized electronic warfare device that’s already made Ukrainian drones significantly harder for Russia to detect and track. New Prime Minister Andy Burnham made the handover his first act of defense diplomacy, and the bigger story is that the same technology is now being built directly into Project Brakestop, Britain’s next-generation long-range strike missile.
I break down how detection evasion actually works, and why five UK Prime Ministers have now kept this same relationship with Ukraine alive through every change of government.
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Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the heroes. Crimea is Ukraine.
- Chapters!
- 00:00 – StoneCloak – UK’s Tablet‑Sized EW Gift to Ukraine
- 02:06 – Detection Over Payload: StoneCloak Licensing and UK‑Ukraine Ties
- 04:27 – StoneCloak Mechanics: Disrupting Detection, Not Just Communications
- 05:53 – StoneCloak Integrated into BreakStop Missiles: Structural Implications
- 07:16 – Creating Detection Uncertainty: StoneCloak’s Role in BreakStop Strategy
- 08:38 – Integration, Opacity, and Continuity: StoneCloak’s Diplomatic Significance
- 10:45 – Policy Continuity Across UK PMs Amid StoneCloak Secrecy
- 11:17 – Conclusion and Closing Remarks
A vibrant presentation that gives off a nice vibe of hope.
Thanks Andy!
And thanks Wes.
Liza Rose from Stand With Ukraine :
Great News! Ukraine brilliantly performs largest long-range assault into the enemy Russia’s capital Moscow yet!
Ukraine launched 600 drones toward Moscow overnight, according to Moscow Mayor Sobyanin, in what appeared to be the largest drone assault targeting the Russian capital since the war began.
Sobyanin said air defenses around Moscow shot down at least 201 drones. Moscow regional officials said one person was eliminated when a drone fell on a residential property in the Ramensky district.
Across Russia, the Defense Ministry claimed 822 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight. Local officials reported five deaths in the Rostov region and another death in Belgorod.
The massive attack disrupted air travel, triggering temporary restrictions at several airports, including three of Moscow’s four international airports.
Russia simultaneously launched another major attack on Ukraine, firing missiles and 106 drones. President Zelenskyy said Russian strikes eliminated people in Kryvyi Rih and Sumy and injured at least six in Kyiv and the surrounding region.
🔴 The enemy Russians started this illegal invasion into their sweet neighbors territory five years ago.
The United States has faltered in its contract for duties to aid Ukraine.
The United States has had an ongoing obligation to aid Ukraine in the event of an attack by Russians, since 1994.
United States President Donald J. Trump should have sent tomahawk missiles to Ukraine in 2025 — if he had done that it would have ended the Russians invasion.
Donald Trump has committed himself to aiding the enemy Russians.
Donald Trump has never visited Ukraine.
Donald J. Trump has never told Russia to leave Ukraine.
Vice President JD Vance exclaimed his “proudest moment was taking all aid from Ukrainians” in 2025.
Russians have stolen over 19,000 Ukrainian babies and children since 2022 and are selling them on a Russian website.
We are dealing with a group of Russian propagandist traitors that call themselves MAGA in the White House.
It is time to end this.
It is time to call out the Trump Administration for what they are — traitors to the ally Ukrainians, traitors to Europeans, traitors to Americans, traitors to Humanity.
🔴 Let’s keep the momentum going! Deep strikes into the enemy Russians — let’s finish this!
Bravo to Zelensky the world’s hero!
Also from Wes O’Donell:
Ukraine’s Shark aircraft is jamming Russian drones from above and it’s changing air defense forever
Ukraine just received its first Shark electronic warfare aircraft, a lightweight two-seater built to scramble GPS and video links on Shaheds mid-flight. Here’s how a cheap, manned jamming platform is quietly disrupting Russia’s most reliable weapon.
That’s cool. Ukraine is a first rate and nonstop weapons and EW developing nation.
Ukraine built a $48,000 long-range drone after covertly snapping Chinese factory photos
A drone that destroyed a Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bomber at Russia’s Engels-2 air base last month turns out to be a MICH 2000, a reverse-engineered copy of a Chinese aircraft Beijing refused to sell to Ukraine, according to a factory report from defense outlet Oboronka. Built by an unnamed manufacturer exclusively for the SBU’s ‘Alpha’ special operations center, the flying-wing drone carries up to a 60 kg warhead as far as 2,000 km and costs $48,000 in its base configuration, $2,000 less than the Chinese ZTK-150 it was copied from. It’s understood that Ukrainian developers covertly photographed the Chinese production line while attending pilot training there in late 2023.
China restricted exports of civilian drones in the summer of 2023 after Ukrainian units converted airframes like the Mugin-5 PRO into deep-strike munitions. A Ukrainian development team traveled to a Chinese factory late that year, found ZTK-150s in production, and negotiated to buy the manufacturing technology, but the factory’s management blocked the sale.
Intermediaries offered pilot training instead, and the team accepted. “In parallel with the training, we photographed everything that was there,” one team member, whom Oboronka didn’t name, said in the report, which was cleared in advance by the manufacturer and the SBU. The team flew home with eight drones.
The first Ukrainian-built prototype crashed 1 km into its maiden flight in the summer of 2024, and Russian electronic warfare downed the third test aircraft. In the type’s first combat sortie that October, one of three drones was shot down and the other two fell roughly 10 meters short. Yet, Alpha ordered production anyway.
Almost nothing of the ZTK-150 remains in the current MICH 2000 beyond its outline, the manufacturer told Oboronka. Two years of work localized engines, warheads, fuselages, and rocket boosters across dozens of Ukrainian suppliers, putting domestic content at 85% of the drone’s value. Fitting a jam-resistant CRPA navigation antenna, however, cuts that to 55%, because the antennas cost $20,000 to $25,000 depending on module count and only a handful of companies worldwide make them. Ukraine has been chasing jam-resistant navigation across its strike drone fleet since at least 2025.
The company builds around 6,000 drones a year across eight versions, with buyers choosing analog, digital, or Starlink communications, and reinvests roughly $1 million a month in R&D while scaling toward 10,000 units annually. Fire Point, maker of the FP-1 that flew 2,500 km to hit Russia’s largest refinery, targets 100,000 drones a year, though the FP-1 serves many units and the MICH 2000 has one customer.
Alpha has launched thousands of MICH 2000s at hundreds of targets, per the manufacturer, including a Wildberries logistics hub in Ryazan oblast, an anti-Starlink electronic warfare system near Gelendzhik, and the port of Ust-Luga, where one raid put more than 20 drones over the target. The SBU said the Engels-2 strike tore the tail section off the Tu-95MS, and satellite imagery later confirmed the bomber’s destruction. A successor called MICH+ drops the type’s forward canards and pairs a 70 kg warhead with a 600 km range at a target price near $40,000.
(From tom’s Hardware, via MSN)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ukraine-built-a-48-000-long-range-drone-after-covertly-snapping-chinese-factory-photos/ar-AA2aeUnz