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Ukraine, Russia both claim large-scale overnight drone interceptions
December 3, 2025
Ukraine has said its air defences neutralised 83 of the 111 drones Russia launched across the country since Tuesday evening, while Moscow claimed to have intercepted 102 Ukrainian drones over several Russian regions overnight, according to official statements from both sides.
Ukraine’s Air Force said on Wednesday that the attack, which began after 6 pm local time (1600GMT), involved Shahed and Geran-type strike UAVs launched from Kursk, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and Crimea.
It noted that more than 60 of the drones were Shahed models. “The air attack was repelled by anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare, unmanned systems, and mobile fire groups,” the statement said.
By 8 am (0600GMT), Ukrainian defences had downed or suppressed 83 drones across the country’s north, south, and east.
Authorities recorded 27 UAV strikes on 13 locations, as well as debris impacts at another site. Civilian infrastructure and private homes were damaged in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Kharkiv, and Odessa regions, with casualties reported.
Cross-border drone activity
Meanwhile, Russian officials said drones struck oil depots in the Voronezh and Tambov regions.
The head of Russia’s Tambov region, Yevgeny Pervyshchev, said a fire erupted at the Tambov oil facility in the village of Dmytrivka after “UAV debris fell,” adding that emergency crews responded quickly.
Authorities in Voronezh said four drones were destroyed and that several fuel tanks were slightly damaged but did not ignite.
Russia’s Defence Ministry separately claimed its air defences shot down 102 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones across seven regions overnight, including Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Rostov, Astrakhan, Saratov, and Voronezh.
The claims come amid intensified cross-border drone activity, with both sides reporting expanded use of long-range UAVs targeting military and energy infrastructure.
Independent verification is difficult due to the ongoing conflict.
https://www.trtworld.com/article/c2c396b982f4
https://kyivindependent.com/fire-breaks-out-at-russian-oil-depot-amid-reported-drone-strike/
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/65466
other Russia and Ukraine
https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukrainian-airstrike-destroys-russian-drone-control-center-in-vovchansk-13989
https://kyivindependent.com/russians-really-scale-how-moscow-built-a-drone-system-that-now-threatens-to-tilt-the-balance-on-the-battlefield-in-ukraine/
https://tvpworld.com/90352962/ukraines-drones-cause-up-to-half-russian-losses-nato-general-keller
https://united24media.com/latest-news/new-ukrainian-air-pro-interceptor-drone-hunts-russian-recon-uavs-at-200-kmh-13977
https://en.apa.az/europe/romanian-military-forces-destroy-ukrainian-sea-baby-drone-in-black-sea-485372
PM said to be holding urgent meeting on Rafah attack, says ‘Israel will not tolerate’ attacks on troops
December 3, 2025 8:23 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding an urgent meeting to debate how Israel should respond to the attack on IDF troops in Rafah today, in which five IDF soldiers were wounded, including one seriously, Channel 12 reports.
Separately, Netanyahu says in a statement that Hamas has violated the truce and vows a response.
“The Hamas terror organization continues to violate the ceasefire agreement and carries out terror attacks against our forces,” he says in the statement. “Our policy is clear: Israel will not tolerate attacks on IDF soldiers and will respond accordingly.”
Netanyahu also sends wishes for a speedy recovery to the soldiers.
According to the Channel 12 report, Defense Minister Israel Katz, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, and Shin Bet director David Zini are participating in the meeting.
Zamir argues that Israel cannot let the attack go by without a response, according to the outlet.
“This is a serious violation of the ceasefire agreement,” a senior Israeli official tells the outlet, “we are in full coordination with the Americans on the topic, and we have emphasized the severity of the matter.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/pm-said-to-be-holding-urgent-meeting-on-rafah-attack-says-israel-will-not-suffer-attacks-on-troops/
other Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/rafah-strikes-came-after-2-terror-operatives-came-out-of-tunnel-third-put-bomb-on-idf-vehicle/
https://vinnews.com/2025/12/03/idf-report-hezbollah-assassinated-4-people-who-implicated-them-in-2020-ammonium-disaster/
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/rafah-tunnel-attack-ceasefire
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-december-3-2025/
https://vinnews.com/2025/12/03/idf-troops-uncover-rocket-launchers-in-northern-gaza-during-ceasefire/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israeli-teen-arrested-for-planning-isis-inspired-attack-on-idf-soldiers/
https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-879045
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/bat-yam-mayor-says-iranian-agents-openly-trying-to-recruit-israelis-as-spies-including-teens/
https://worldisraelnews.com/un-passes-resolutions-demanding-israel-retreat-from-golan-heights-judea-and-samaria/
https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/bkml8dpwze
https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_news/idf-commander-from-cleveland-wounded-in-syria/article_8b20045d-0d56-4d62-8b31-7e2748f1dd67.html
Reports: Multiple Drone Strikes Hit Chechnya
December 3, 2025
Unmanned aerial vehicles reportedly struck several military and security locations across Chechnya on Tuesday, December 3rd.
Chechen authorities have yet to comment—while Russia’s Defence Ministry said only that four drones were shot down over the republic.
Images circulated in local webchat apps appear to show severe fire damage to the Federal Security Service (FSB) office in Achkhoy-Martan.
Another strike reportedly hit the base of the Akhmat regiment in Gudermes, with online footage showing a drone approaching before an explosion.
Later in the day, the opposition Telegram channel NIYSO reported an additional drone attack targeting a police station in Sernovodsk, though this remains unconfirmed.
Air traffic authorities temporarily halted flights at several airports in the region—including Grozny, Vladikavkaz and Makhachkala.
Chechnya has seen a series of drone attacks over the past year, with earlier strikes damaging police facilities, military barracks and training centres.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/russia-ukraine-war-drone-strikes-hit-chechnya/
https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4346822/war-department-asks-industry-to-make-more-than-300k-drones-quickly-cheaply/
War Department Asks Industry to Make More Than 300K Drones, Quickly, Cheaply
Dec. 2, 2025
The War Department requested information earlier this week to gauge industry's willingness and ability to make some 300,000 drones quickly and inexpensively — a concrete effort by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to directly meet the "drone dominance" goals laid out by the president.
On June 6, President Donald J. Trump signed the "Unleashing American Drone Dominance" executive order outlining how the United States would up its drone game in both the commercial and military sectors, including how it would deliver massive amounts of inexpensive, American-made, lethal drones to U.S. military units to amplify their combat capabilities.
Hegseth followed up in July with the "Unleashing U.S. Military Drone Dominance" memorandum, in which he laid out his plan for how the department would meet the president's intent.
Part of the secretary's plan included participating with other parts of government in building up the nascent U.S. drone manufacturing base by approving hundreds of American products for purchase by the department, powering a "technological leapfrog" by arming combat units with the very best of low-cost American-made drones, and finally, training as the department expects to fight.
"Next year I expect to see [drone] capability integrated into all relevant combat training, including force-on-force drone wars," the secretary said.
At that time, Hegseth said, he had already advanced American drone dominance by stripping away regulations that hindered the military's adoption of small drones and shifting the necessary authorities away from the department's bureaucracy and into the hands of unit commanders.
"This was the first step in the urgent effort to boost lethality across the force," Hegseth said in a video posted today to social media.
Now the War Department is moving out in a new way on the drone dominance initiative, Hegseth said.
"The second step is to kickstart U.S. industrial capacity and reduce prices, so our military can adequately budget for unmanned weapons," the secretary said.
He noted that, with help from Congress, the department will initially focus on small attack drones.
"Drone dominance is a billion-dollar program funded by President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill," Hegseth said.
"It is purpose-built on the pillars of the War Department's new acquisition philosophy: a stable demand signal to expand the U.S. drone industrial base by leveraging private capital, paired with flexible contracting built for commercial companies, founded by our best engineers and entrepreneurs."
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A stable demand signal means the War Department will make concrete plans to buy lots of drones, on a regular schedule, over a long period of time.
When that happens, American industry will step up to the plate to satisfy the department's needs, including by investing in and building out its own capacity to produce in the long term.
The request for information released to industry this week spells out a plan that'll begin early next year, when the department will, over the course of two years, and within four phases, offer $1 billion to industry to build a large number of small unmanned aerial systems capable of conducting one-way attack missions.
The first of those four phases, called "gauntlets," runs from February to July 2026. During that time, 12 vendors will be asked to collectively produce 30,000 drones at a cost of $5,000 per unit, for a total of $150 million in department outlays.
Over the course of the next three gauntlets, the number of vendors will go down from 12 to five, the number of drones ordered will increase from 30,000 to 150,000, and the price per drone will drop from $5,000 to $2,300.
"Drone dominance will do two things: drive costs down and capabilities up," Hegseth said. "We will deliver tens of thousands of small drones to our force in 2026, and hundreds of thousands of them by 2027."
Through the drone dominance program, $1 billion from the Big Beautiful Bill will fund the manufacture of approximately 340,000 small UASs for combat units over the course of two years.
After that, it's expected that American industry's interest in building drones as a result of the program will have strengthened supply chains and manufacturing capacity to the point that the military will be able to afford to buy the drones it wants, in the quantity it wants, at a price it wants, through regular budgeting.
Equipment is only part of the game, the secretary said. Doctrine — how the warfighter fights — is also critical.
"I will soon be meeting with the military services to discuss transformational changes in warfighting doctrine," Hegseth said. "We need to outfit our combat units with unmanned systems at scale.
We cannot wait. The funding provided by the Big Beautiful Bill is ready to be used to mount an effective sprint to build combat power.
At the Department of War, we are adopting new technologies with a 'fight tonight' philosophy — so that our warfighters have the cutting-edge tools they need to prevail."
Following the end of the Cold War, Hegseth said, U.S. defense spending dropped precipitously, and as a result, there was also a consolidation of defense contractors from hundreds to just dozens.
The department, he said, budgeted for quality rather than quantity — and for 30 years got what it needed.
"However, we now find ourselves in a new era," he said. "An era of cheap, disposable battlefield drones. We cannot be left behind — we must invest in inexpensive, unmanned platforms that have proved so effective."
Drone dominance, he said, is how the U.S. will meet the drone challenge posed by other nations.
"One of my priorities is rebuilding our military," Hegseth said. "We can't do that by doing business the same way we have in the past.
We cannot afford to shoot down cheap drones with $2 million missiles. And we ourselves must be able to field large quantities of capable attack drones."
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U.S. Launches One-Way-Attack Drone Force in the Middle East
Dec. 3, 2025
TAMPA, Fla. – On Dec. 3, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced a new task force for the U.S. military’s first one-way-attack drone squadron based in the Middle East.
CENTCOM launched Task Force Scorpion Strike (TFSS) four months after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth directed acceleration of the acquisition and fielding of affordable drone technology.
TFSS is designed to quickly deliver low cost and effective drone capabilities into the hands of warfighters.
The new task force has already formed a squadron of Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones currently based in the Middle East.
LUCAS drones deployed by CENTCOM have an extensive range and are designed to operate autonomously. They can be launched with different mechanisms to include catapults, rocket-assisted takeoff, and mobile ground and vehicle systems.
“This new task force sets the conditions for using innovation as a deterrent,” said Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander.
“Equipping our skilled warfighters faster with cutting-edge drone capabilities showcases U.S. military innovation and strength, which deters bad actors.”
In September, CENTCOM launched the Rapid Employment Joint Task Force (REJTF) led by its chief technology officer to fast-track processes for outfitting deployed forces with emerging capabilities.
The joint task force is coordinating innovation efforts among Service components in three focus areas: capability, software, and tech diplomacy.
TFSS’s efforts to build the one-way-attack drone squadron are led by personnel from Special Operations Command Central and align with REJTF’s capability focus area.
https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/4347030/us-launches-one-way-attack-drone-force-in-the-middle-east/
https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4347258/centcom-launches-attack-drone-task-force-in-middle-east/
Creatures From Another World? The UFO-Cryptid Connection WEAPONIZED : EPISODE #100
December 2, 2025
Few, if any, people are comfortable with the idea that there appears to be a connection between UFO sightings and the appearance of supposedly non-existent creatures, including Sasquatch.
UFO investigators and organizations have largely shunned cases in which both UFOs and cryptic beings show up in the same locations at the same time.
And the Bigfoot research groups are equally appalled to address why their flesh-and-blood but elusive primate species often vanish into thin air, as if sucked up into the sky. But the links between UFO craft and Sasquatch are getting harder to ignore.
This week marks the 20th anniversary of Hunt for the Skinwalker, a book co-written by Dr. Colm Kelleher and George Knapp.
It documented the strange encounters that had been reported and investigated by the NIDS organization (National Institute for Discovery Science) at a place now known as Skinwalker Ranch.
That book inspired the creation of a secretive DIA program known as AAWSAP, which did NOT shy away from the pursuit of incidents in which unknown creatures, including Bigfoot, were seen in the same vicinity as UFOs, alleged dimensional portals, and other phenomena shunned by mainstream science.
In this episode of WEAPONIZED, Jeremy and George speak with author and filmmaker David Paulides.
Paulides is best known for his bestselling book series, “Missing 411,” in which he documents hundreds of strange disappearances that occur largely in national parks and forests.
In many of these cases, humans simply vanish, as if snatched by UFOs or taken against their will to some other reality. Most are never seen again.
The first two books written by the former lawman Paulides focused on Sasquatch and what Native American tribes have learned about the mysterious, hair-covered monsters that have been seen for centuries all over North America.
His readers wondered if Paulides was suggesting that Sasquatch might be responsible for the humans who disappeared. Now Paulides has released a new film which thoroughly explores all sides of the Bigfoot mystery.
The documentary, “American Sasquatch: Man, Myth, or Monster,” revisits the physical evidence and witness accounts which suggest that there is a disturbing connection between cryptid creatures such as Bigfoot and the sightings of UFOs, dimensional portals, and other astounding phenomena - similar to what has been widely reported in and around Skinwalker Ranch.
The episode includes clips from the Paulides film, as well as from the video archives of both George and Jeremy, which have explored these same possible connections.
https://www.weaponizedpodcast.com/episodes-4/episode-100
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4SjlCHrzqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJY1lYCRpKE (Missing 411: The UFO Connection FREE)
https://x.com/JeremyCorbell
https://x.com/g_knapp
https://x.com/canammissing