Analysis
Radionor rebranded CRE2 to I-BEAM. The point worth making is the antenna: phased array gives you directional gain without the pointing problem.
HAPS
An open-source map of HAPS alerts over Russia, aggregated from open Russian sources.
aerostats
The question is not whether this works. It's who else has done it. Three Olympics. One World Cup. One European Championship. Two papal visits with crowds in the hundreds of thousands. G8 summits. COP21. State funerals with sitting presidents. **Rio de Janeiro, FIFA World Cup 2014.** Fan Fest
aerostats
Tethered aerostats have an established track record in emergency response across three core roles: communications restoration, wide-area environmental monitoring, and persistent search-and-rescue support. Five cases below — including one Aerobavovna deployment. Hurricane Katrina Aftermath — USA, 2007 Following the communications blackout across Louisiana caused by Hurricane Katrina, the US
News
After months of swarm exercises, the U.S. Army just issued its first formal procurement notice for high-altitude balloon systems.
News
Ukraine's Ministry of Defence has officially codified the AB12TC aerostat complex. The first purchase came in hours — paid for with eBonuses earned through confirmed combat results.
HAPS
In early May 2026, the U.S. Army conducted a training exercise over the Baltic region: Micro-HABs launched from Sweden and landed in Latvia after 24–30 hours of flight at altitudes above 18,000 meters. The stated objective — validating sensors and communications relay under real operational conditions. Over
connectivity
Starlink transformed battlefield communications. And then, in certain places and situations, it stopped working. Here is why — and what fills the gap.
UGV
Ukraine plans to procure 50,000 unmanned ground vehicles in 2026. Nearly all of them run on Starlink. That is a capability. It is also a dependency — and one that European armies cannot replicate at all.
Insights on aerostats from Ukraine
Fiction has understood this for a long time. Military observation balloons appear in the earliest war games. A Ukrainian studio set in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone put one at the center of its most critical tactical location. And an animated film imagined floating wind farms above a megacity years before
Incident 01 Shot Down by Missiles 1981 "Fat Albert" and the Lobster Fishermen of Florida 📍 Cudjoe Key, Florida, USA · August 1981 The TARS aerostat over Cudjoe Key — the one locals nicknamed "Fat Albert." Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection It started as a routine descent
Sceye SE2 and Kelluu both made headlines this week. Both silver, both lighter than air. But comparing them is like comparing a moped and a Boeing 747 just because both have engines.
A new class of aerial platform is emerging: small, autonomous, lighter-than-air drones. Not the giant rigid airships of the 1930s — purpose-built, technology-dense machines that can stay aloft for hours, carry sensor payloads, and operate silently in environments where conventional drones struggle. Three converging technologies are making
The Rise of Tethered Aerial Platforms Over the past three years, tethered aerial platforms have moved from niche research projects into active military and public safety procurement. The driver is straightforward: free-flying drones are limited by battery life. A multirotor that carries a useful payload — a communications radio, a
When explaining aerostat-based RF infrastructure to clients, one concept comes up every time: how does radio horizon change with altitude? The physics is straightforward — lift a relay higher and the line-of-sight footprint grows. But showing that relationship in a way that's quick to grasp has
Just read it at Defence-blog https://defence-blog.com/ukrainian-company-brings-aerostats-back-to-modern-warfare/
At Aerobavovna, we recently conducted field tests to evaluate Persistent Systems MPU5 radios deployed on our aerostats — simulating a mobile air defence communication scenario. The goal: maintain stable, high-throughput network connectivity across moving units over large areas. Three aerostats were positioned 30 km apart at 1,000 meters altitude,
Recent Russian media reports describe tests of a stratospheric platform positioned as part of the HAPS (High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite)concept. The platform is claimed to lift up to 100 kg of payload to an altitude of 20 km and carry 5G communication equipment. According to these statements, the system
