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Drone Academy — contents
A free learning environment on unmanned aircraft systems: platform recognition, flight profiles, threats to aircraft, counter-UAS and analysis of drone incidents.
1UAS Foundations
What a UAS is, NATO classification, the main roles, and the vocabulary you'll need throughout this learning environment.
2Platform Knowledge
Five proven platform types from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, their evolution towards armed and faster variants, and the cost asymmetry driving the whole domain.
3Flight Profiles & Envelopes
Altitudes, speeds and reference heights of the five platform types, the critical flight phases sharing the same vulnerability, and transiting threats not aimed at the own aircraft.
4Employment & Adversary TTPs
How drones are actually employed: saturation through salvos, an adaptation cycle now measured in days, and the role of motherships and decoys.
5Threats to Aircraft
Eight years of precedents of drone attacks on aircraft and air bases, proven attacks on aircraft actually in flight, and the shared lessons from them.
6Counter-UAS: Detect & Defeat
The kill chain that neutralises an individual drone, the distinction between soft kill and hard kill, and the proof that layered defence works — even off the battlefield.
7Platform Self-Protection
The Sense-Share-Shoot-Survive framework: four complementary layers to protect a flying platform against drones and transiting threats.
8The Analyst & UAS
How UAS threat fits the IPB/IPOE framework, the risk-assessment framework for airborne risk, and how to critically verify claims about drone incidents.
9Future & Trends
Autonomy and AI target recognition, the emerging autonomous air-to-air UAS, layered European defence initiatives, and interceptor drones as an answer to the cost asymmetry.
10Reference Library
All platform cards and frameworks in one searchable gallery, plus the interactive diagram of kill chain, Sense-Share-Shoot-Survive and flight profile side by side.
11Behind the Russian Drone War
From factory to launch platform: production, the Rubicon doctrine centre, the anatomy of a strike package, and the indicators an analyst can observe in advance.
12Analyst Practice: Incident Case Studies
Two worked OSINT case studies where you analyse a reported drone incident step by step: from first report to conclusion.
13Sources & accountability
The complete source register: which open sources were used for every chapter and card, how the content was compiled and how to read it.