Großbritannien übergab der Ukraine das IP für Stone Cloak, einen Störsender in Tablet-Größe, der die russische Luftverteidigung daran hindert, Drohnen im Flug zu verfolgen. Tausende sind bereits vor Ort; Die Ukraine kann sie jetzt in Massenproduktion herstellen, und eine ukrainische Drohnenfabrik in Großbritannien ist auf dem Tisch
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260727-burnham-to-welcome-zelensky-on-first-foreign-leader-visit-to-london-since-taking-office
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Zelensky’s London stop yesterday produced the week’s quietest significant deal. Aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth, Downing Street announced the UK will hand Ukraine the intellectual property behind Stone Cloak, a battle-tested electronic jamming capability the size of a tablet computer. Attached to a drone, it hinders Russian air defense systems from tracking and targeting the drone in flight. Thousands of the jammers have already been delivered to Ukrainian forces and proven in deep-strike operations; the IP transfer moves the relationship from shipping finished units to Ukraine mass-producing them at home. Britain is also folding the technology into its own next-generation deep-strike program, which says something about how field-proven it already is.
Three weeks ago the jamming story ran the other way: Russia fielding the Volna Kupol Garant to cut Ukrainian mid-strike drones off Starlink. Stone Cloak is the same war on the same layer, from the opposite side. One system attacks the link that keeps a drone connected; the other blinds the radar that would shoot it down. Wherever the front line sits on the map, the contested space that actually decides strike success is increasingly electromagnetic.
The reverse flow is the part I find most notable. Zelensky said the two discussed joint defense production, „together we can achieve even more in the field of drones and other technologies,“ and separately floated a Ukrainian drone manufacturing facility on UK soil in his Sky News interview. Four years into the full-scale war, Ukraine is negotiating as a technology exporter with a G7 military. The two leaders also met some of the 200 Ukrainian personnel finishing three weeks of maritime security and mine-countermeasure training in Britain, preparation aimed at future Black Sea operations. Total UK support stands at 25 billion pounds, 16 billion of it military.
The ask that travels onward is unchanged: Zelensky repeated that Ukraine does not have enough missiles to defend against Russia’s expanding ballistic production. Burnham, a week into the job and the fifth British prime minister of this war, made Zelensky his first foreign guest. The Trump meeting in Washington today is where the air-defense math gets tested.
For context on my end: I run a daily open-source monitor at [osnt.in](http://osnt.in) across 200+ Ukrainian and Russian-language sources. The signal-layer race, jammers against links against radars, is the thread I keep pulling because it moves faster than any other part of this war.
Great plan. Get them out, scale them and have them cause as much damage as possible before Russia develop a counter that will likely be more expensive. By then it’s doing its job, just by existing, to tie up more Russian resources.
It is quite generous of them
If this is the technology that the west is both disclosing to the public and giving away to a country at war with Russia, imagine the technology they keep for themselves and don’t talk about?
My only worry is that the Stone Cloak tech can be reverse-engineered. If a Drone is found undestroyed, will that give Russia (and by extension China, N Korea, and Iran) something to counter them, or use against our Allies?
I don’t know enough about how they protect the property – thermite anti-tamper? self-deleting software?
The timing of supply has always been sluggish, with strings attached. This is a step forwards.
In return, the UK just made a positive step to ramp up it’s stocks of drones for the face of new warfare. The arguing over defence budgets might catch out the old guard that still wants large shiny items that can be knocked out cheaply and easily by that very same warfare.
Thats pretty fantastic! Proud of my country!
I’m sure Russia will get hold of one and try reproducing it with spaghetti and cardboard.
Hell yeah
There are two things here I’m glad of. One is Ukraine getting a bigger supply of Stone Cloke. The other is a Ukrainian drone factory in the UK.
Something like that will make the sharing of knowledge go both ways. Its not as urgent, but it is good.
I bet Putin regrets those assassinations in London now.