A Russian Shahed-type attack drone has been found fitted with a man-portable air defense system, or MANPADS, marking the first known instance of such a weapon being integrated onto a loitering munition, according to a Ukrainian military technology specialist.

Russian forces appear to have modified Shahed-136 one-way attack drones to carry man-portable air defence missiles, marking a tactical evolution aimed at threatening Ukrainian fighter aircraft deployed to intercept the slow-moving UAVs.

Venezuela's air defenses failed to down a single American aircraft, though experts said that could be more credit to US proficiency than the systems' own failures.

The Venezuelan regime had high-powered air defense systems from its allies in the Kremlin, but failed to set much of it up.

In a dramatic overnight operation, nearly 200 U.S. troops entered Caracas by helicopter, supported by over 150 military aircraft, to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores,