About In-Droner

What this is

In-Droner follows drone technology in the war in Ukraine: strike drones, interceptors, ground and sea robots, and the engines, radios, navigation systems and software inside them. A new report is published every week, in English and in Lithuanian.

There are four kinds of post:

• Weekly roundup. What appeared or changed during the week.
• Key event. One development that deserves its own post.
• Specs compared. Published figures for competing systems, side by side.
• Report. A longer study of one system or one class of system.

Sources

Reports are built from open sources: Ukrainian and Russian Telegram channels, official Ukrainian government and military sites, Militarnyi, Defense Express, the Institute for the Study of War, major news agencies and published research. Source names appear next to the statements they support.

How claims are labelled

• Confirmed Physical evidence, an official record, or independent reports from both sides.
• Claimed Stated by a manufacturer, a ministry or one side only.
• Unverified Circulating, but without a source that can be traced.

A Ukrainian and a Russian channel reporting the same thing counts as confirmation only when the two reports are independent of each other. A forward or a quote of the same post does not count.

Specifications are the hardest part. A top speed in a brochure, a range measured one way by one maker and another way by the next, and a production number that may mean ordered, built or delivered are all reported as what they are.

Photos

Every photograph on this site is a real photograph from a named source, and none are AI-generated. Each one is listed with its author and licence on the photo credits page.

In-Droner does not publish footage of people being killed or wounded, identifiable casualties, or live positions.

Who writes it

In-Droner is written by Rolandas Tupikas, a drone technology enthusiast based in Lithuania.