Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign is getting a game-changing upgrade. Under a new defense pact, the UK is licensing its cutting-edge "Stone Cloak" technology to Kyiv, allowing Ukraine to mass-produce advanced signal jammers that render drones and cruise missiles practically invisible to Russian air defenses. As Ukrainian strikes push deep into Russian territory, this Harry Potter-style tech serves as a massive force multiplier.
⏱️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - UK Stone Cloak Signal Jammer Deal Ukraine
01:30 - How UK Stone Cloak Jammers Defeat Radar
02:50 - Russian Air Defense Intercepts 571 Ukrainian Drones
04:15 - Ukraine Strikes Tyumen Refinery 2,000 Kilometers Away
05:40 - Ukraine Launches 7,000 Drones Monthly Into Russia
07:00 - Russian Economic Crisis and 500,000 Bankruptcies
08:20 - Zelenskyy Updates Russian Military Priority Target List
09:45 - Ukraine Defense Industry Reaches 55 Billion Dollars
11:10 - Raytheon Licenses Patriot Missile Production to Ukraine
12:30 - Can UK Stone Cloak Defeat Russian Air Defenses?
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⏱️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - UK Stone Cloak Signal Jammer Deal Ukraine
01:30 - How UK Stone Cloak Jammers Defeat Radar
02:50 - Russian Air Defense Intercepts 571 Ukrainian Drones
04:15 - Ukraine Strikes Tyumen Refinery 2,000 Kilometers Away
05:40 - Ukraine Launches 7,000 Drones Monthly Into Russia
07:00 - Russian Economic Crisis and 500,000 Bankruptcies
08:20 - Zelenskyy Updates Russian Military Priority Target List
09:45 - Ukraine Defense Industry Reaches 55 Billion Dollars
11:10 - Raytheon Licenses Patriot Missile Production to Ukraine
12:30 - Can UK Stone Cloak Defeat Russian Air Defenses?
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00:00As Ukraine expands its long-range campaign, it faces a challenge. That campaign is already
00:06effective. But Ukraine wants more drones hitting their targets, and for that, it needs to tackle
00:11Russia's air defenses. Too many of Ukraine's drones get sent off course or are destroyed by
00:16those defenses. The less effective Russian air defenses are, the more Russia burns. It's a
00:22simple concept. And now the UK has provided Ukraine with the solution to its problem.
00:28You won't believe what the UK just gave to Ukraine, as a Harry Potter-style weapon designed
00:33by the UK is set to become the next big thing in the war. Ukraine wants to send Russia back
00:39to the
00:39Stone Age, and now it can. Why? The Stone Cloak is coming. On July 26th, The Telegraph reported that
00:47the UK's new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has revealed that he is set to sign a new deal with
00:52Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. This new deal will be signed during a meeting between the
00:57pair at a naval yard, and it's going to be proof that the UK's support of Ukraine in its defense
01:02of its territory against Russia remains unwavering, Burnham declares. So there's a new pact waiting to
01:08be signed. What's the big deal? The big deal is what Ukraine will be getting. Under this pact,
01:14Ukraine will receive specially developed signal jammers that the UK has developed to integrate
01:19into a new series of its own weapons. Named Stone Cloak, these jammers will make Ukraine's
01:25incoming drones and cruise missiles practically undetectable to Russian air defense systems.
01:30Think of it like the Cloak of Invisibility from Harry Potter, only for weapons. That's what the
01:35UK has promised to deliver, but it goes much deeper than that. The UK isn't just handing over
01:40some stone cloaks and calling it a day. Ukraine is receiving a license to produce these ingenious
01:45jammers for itself. Stone cloaks are nothing new for Ukraine. The UK has already provided thousands
01:51of the signal jammers to Ukraine. However, even those thousands aren't quite enough. Ukraine's
01:55long-range campaign has ramped up massively in 2026, leading to tens of thousands of Ukrainian
02:00drones being launched into Russia and the occupied territories. That's what Ukraine needs. Tens of
02:06thousands of stone cloaks to go along with the sheer number of drones that it unleashes.
02:10With this new agreement, Ukraine will receive the intellectual rights to the technology
02:14so it can mass-produce them, perhaps on a scale that even the UK can't manage.
02:19Ahead of Zelensky's visit, Burnham explained why he made the decision.
02:22Britain stands with Ukraine, shoulder to shoulder, and our support remains unwavering.
02:27Russia should be in no doubt of our resolve, and we will not back down until we achieve
02:32a long-lasting peace for Ukraine, Burnham said, before adding,
02:36Stone cloak is the best of homegrown British innovation and proven on the front line,
02:40and it will be vital to protecting our security in both our countries.
02:43This was a message to Voldemort, sorry Putin, that Ukraine's drones and missiles are about
02:49to become invisible, and there's nothing he can do about it.
02:52As much as the UK wants to prove that it still stands with Ukraine, which itself is a gutshot
02:56to Putin as he tries to create division throughout Europe, there is an element of self-interest
03:00in this new deal. Ukraine gets to make stone cloaks. In return, the UK gets to gather mass
03:06deployment data on a jammer that has already proven its worth on the front lines in Ukraine.
03:11British Army chiefs say that data will be collected on the performance of Stone cloak once it's deployed on
03:16mass, with that information then being used by the UK as it develops its next generation
03:20of missiles and drones. In particular, the UK wants to see how the current version of the
03:25jammer works because it intends to build Stone cloak into Project Breakstop, which is an upcoming
03:30low-cost cruise missile. We also imagine that the UK and Ukraine will both use the data collected to
03:35make tweaks to Stone cloak, making it even more effective when stacked up against Russian air defenses.
03:41This new deal is big for Ukraine, for several reasons that we'll explain soon.
03:46But first, the big question. What is Stone cloak exactly?
03:50Stone cloak is a new type of signal jammer that can be loaded into drones and missiles.
03:54It's designed to help those weapons overcome air defenses.
03:58URACTIVE has a little more information. These jammers are small, at roughly the size of a tablet
04:02computer. They can be fitted directly to a weapon that Ukraine intends to fire, and they work by
04:07jamming the signals used by air defense systems that allow those systems to track and target
04:12Ukraine's projectiles. From that, we can assume that Stone cloak affects not just the air defense
04:16system itself, but the radar that is attached to the system. Apart from that, we know little beyond
04:21speculation. Stone cloak likely uses radio frequency jamming to make projectiles difficult to detect.
04:28With no official data sheets made public, we can only assume that includes the radio frequency
04:32bands used by Russian early warning and tracking radars. Ukraine will also need to be able to
04:37source critical parts to make its own stone cloaks. These include semiconductors, amplifiers,
04:43and RF modules, all of which Ukraine seems to be able to source for its other weapons.
04:47Presumably, it should have no difficulty getting its hands on these components,
04:51though the number of each that it's able to purchase could hamper the number of stone cloaks
04:55that Ukraine makes for itself, but that's a future problem. For now, Ukraine will be jubilant
04:59that it's gotten its hands on the rights to make a device that could make a massive difference to
05:03its war against Russia. But before we go deeper into why that difference is coming,
05:06this is a reminder that you are watching the military show. If you like what you see from
05:11our channel, then remember to subscribe and ring the notification bell so you never miss any of
05:15our analysis of the latest weapons used by Ukraine. Let's start with the thing that Stonecloak is going
05:20to counter, Russia's air defenses. Though a lot has been said on this very channel about how badly those
05:25defenses are failing, as Ukraine's drone operators have been able to carry out hundreds of strikes against
05:30Russian targets in 2026 alone, they are still a problem. And if Russia is to be believed,
05:35far more of Ukraine's drones get intercepted than actually make it to where Ukraine wants them to go.
05:40For instance, Al Jazeera reports that Russia's defense ministry claimed that air defenses destroyed
05:46571 of Ukraine's drones during a single overnight attack leading into July 24th.
05:51Toward the end of 2025, the Royal United Services Institute ran a study that concluded that fewer than
05:5710% of the drones that Ukraine launches reach their targets. Whether that's still the case over half a
06:02year later isn't clear. But what really matters here is that Ukraine wants its long-range strikes
06:07to be even more effective than they already are. Attacking air defenses directly helps with that,
06:11as doing so leads to the creation of safe aerial corridors for drones and missiles.
06:16However, Ukraine's goal now is more success. What if Ukraine can launch 600 drones and have 20%
06:21of them find their mark? Or 30%. That's what the UK's stone-cloak decision could enable.
06:26If Ukraine is able to mass-produce these devices to the point where it can install them on most,
06:30if not all, of the projectiles that it fires into Russia and the occupied territories,
06:34then it has a serious force multiplier on its hands. Think about what that means for things
06:38like the refinery strikes that Ukraine has been carrying out. Those strikes are already effective.
06:43On July 25th, Ukraine unleashed another, striking the Tiumen refinery that is 2,000 kilometers
06:49away from its borders. The attack caused a fire. That blaze would have been even bigger if more
06:53of Ukraine's drones broke through the defenses. There are also benefits to Ukraine in terms of
06:58the cost of these strikes. Though drones offer a low-cost way to carry out long-range strikes,
07:03sending swarms of UAVs that never reach their targets still means that Ukraine is pouring tens,
07:09if not hundreds of thousands of dollars down the drain with each attack. Again, Stone Cloak could
07:13change that. The entire calculus of Ukraine's deep-strike strategy changes as a result.
07:19As for the impact on Russia, that brings us nicely to the second reason why this Stone Cloak
07:23Licensing Agreement is so important. A long-range strategy that is both expanding and working very
07:28well already now has the potential to inflict enormous economic and psychological pain on a
07:34Russian population that is already feeling the impact of a war that they never thought would come
07:38to their doorstep. When Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, the prospect of drones and missiles
07:43reaching 2,000 kilometers deep into Russian territory wasn't even a consideration. Even when the initial
07:48invasion failed and Ukraine started to get its hands on Western missiles, the ranges of those
07:53missiles restricted attacks to the border regions of Russia, along with Crimea and the Black Sea.
07:58Fast forward to 2026 and the situation is very different. Ukraine isn't just capable of long-range
08:03strikes, as we saw in Tumen. It's unleashing them with a frequency that alarms even the coolest
08:08headed Russians around. In a May report, United24 media revealed just how much Ukraine's deep-strike
08:14campaign has escalated. In August 2024, Ukraine launched a little over 1,000 drones at Russian
08:19military targets. In July 2025, the number has risen to 3,000. But in March 2026, Ukraine was up to
08:26around 7,000 drones in a single month, which was enough to send Ukraine beyond Russia in terms of
08:32the sheer number of projectiles launched into the other side's territory. Russia no longer has a peaceful
08:37near-rear anywhere that matters. The only locations that are safe from Ukraine's drones are in the Russian
08:42Far East, which is so far away from Ukraine that it's practically a non-factor, outside of providing
08:47Putin with a region from which he can recruit soldiers. There is a purpose to these strikes
08:51beyond the numbers. Ukraine is trying to cripple Russia's economy, while offering constant reminders
08:56to Putin's people that the war their leader started now impacts them. On the economic front,
09:01Ukraine's drones are already having the intended impact. In a July 6th report, The Telegraph revealed
09:06that half a million Russians went bankrupt in 2025 due to the economic impact of the war,
09:11adding that the country now faces an explosive banking crisis. Growth isn't coming anytime soon
09:17either. Russia's economy ministry has been forced to adjust its gross domestic product or GDP growth
09:22forecasts for 2026 from 1.3% to 0.4%. The same is true for 2027, where the GDP growth
09:30forecast is
09:31now 1.4% instead of 2.8%. And these are Russia's massaged figures, so you can bet your bottom
09:37dollar
09:38that the reality in the country is much worse. Ukraine's deep strikes have been a huge cause of
09:42these economic problems. They have also contributed to a fuel crisis in Russia that extends to the
09:47majority of the country's regions and has caused particular pain for Crimea's occupiers, who are
09:53increasingly being isolated by both middle and long-range strikes. Ukraine has even started striking
09:58seemingly civilian businesses, as it has with wild berries, which is considered the Amazon of Russia.
10:03Wild berries isn't as innocent as Russia would have you believe. The e-commerce platform makes drones,
10:09components, and even military gear available on its store. Striking blows against the company's
10:13warehouses, as Ukraine has done several times in July, means that billions of dollars of stock goes up
10:19in flames. For entrepreneurs who relied on wild berries for their businesses, the blows sustained are
10:24devastating and deadly. Wild berries has now hidden the military categories on its online portal.
10:30That's how terrifyingly effective Ukraine's long-range strikes are. Now, add the stone
10:36cloak into that mix. With these invisibility cloaks strapped to their drones, a campaign that is
10:40already causing Russia's economy and people a ton of pain ramps up even more. Ukraine won't have to
10:46increase the number of drones it's launching, it will simply become more effective with the numbers
10:50it's already sending into Russia. And the timing of the new license deal couldn't be any better either.
10:55Following a July 26th meeting with military leaders, Zelensky announced that Ukraine has
11:00created a new list of military targets that it intends to strike in Russia.
11:04Today we agreed to continue our operations and updated the list of priority targets,
11:08in accordance with their real impact on Russia and its ability to continue and prolong this war,
11:14Zelensky said. Adding,
11:15The main goal is to further pressure Russia into diplomacy by disrupting the production of weapons
11:20components, causing oil and other economic losses, and bringing this war back to a familiar ground.
11:26The stone cloak licensing and production likely won't be set up in time to impact these particular
11:31targets, but more will be listed in the future. Ukraine's drones aren't going anywhere, well they are,
11:37right into Russia and with the stone cloaks equipped even more regularly into the hearts of the
11:41targets that Ukraine assigns to its drone operators. There's one more reason why stone cloak will worry
11:46Russia. It is yet another sign that Ukraine is cooperating with its partners well beyond what
11:52Putin thought possible. Again, we take you back to what Russia assumed Ukraine would always be in 2022.
11:57To Russia, Ukraine was a weak nation. Sure, it managed to fend off the initial special military
12:01operation, but after that it was only surviving because Western nations were sending billions of dollars
12:07in weapons to Ukraine. Ukraine did of course rely on these weapons massively during the first few
12:11years of the war, but a transformation has occurred. In 2022, Ukraine would accept any weapons
12:17that were offered, and it was very much cast in the role of aid recipient. That was okay for Putin.
12:21As much as he hated the collective West for jumping to Ukraine's aid, he also believed that
12:26he could manipulate Western leaders into withdrawing that aid in time. He just had to cast Ukraine as
12:30a leech that didn't deserve to survive. The goal was division. In 2026, Ukraine isn't the weakling that
12:36Russia wanted to cast it as. Frankly, it never was. But now we see a version of a country that
12:41is an
12:41active contributor to the European and global defense spaces, rather than a nation that relies
12:46solely on others to survive. Think about what the UK licensing Stonecloak to Ukraine really means.
12:51This isn't just the UK allowing Ukraine to build a weapon. It's recognition of the fact that Ukraine's
12:56defense sector has grown so much, both in size and complexity, that it can be trusted to build one of
13:01the most modern pieces of equipment that the UK's military has developed. What we see here is
13:06recognition of Ukraine as a burgeoning defense powerhouse. The Ukrainian defense sector that
13:10was valued at $1 billion at the start of the invasion has ballooned to the point where its
13:15capacity is above $55 billion. Ukraine isn't just a recipient of aid anymore. It's a contributor,
13:21and the UK granting a Stonecloak license is recognition of the fact that Ukraine has become
13:25a valued partner in British defense, just as the UK is a valued partner to Ukraine.
13:29We're seeing this kind of thing happen with surprising regularity in 2026.
13:34Stonecloak is just the latest in a growing line of advanced technologies that are being licensed
13:38to Ukraine for production. Earlier, the US made the shocking announcement that it was going to
13:42license Patriot interceptor missile production to Ukraine, meaning one of the world's most advanced
13:47air defense missiles will be built on Ukrainian soil. Defense Express reported on July 23rd that
13:54Patriot missiles manufacturer Raytheon is now in active negotiations with Ukraine to get
13:58that licensing deal over the line. France also licensed several weapons to Ukraine earlier in
14:03July, giving Ukraine permission to produce its own Aster-30 air defense missiles,
14:07Assam hammer bomb kits, and Scalp cruise missiles. What these deals tell us, and the Stonecloak
14:12agreement reinforces, is that Ukraine has become a linchpin in European defense. The UK recognizes that
14:18fact. It sees value in having Ukraine build its JAMA because Ukraine can test the device like no other
14:23nation, and it can build it reliably to the point where Ukraine may well be producing Stonecloaks
14:28for the UK when the war is over. The Atlantic Council has gone as far as to dub Ukraine
14:32Europe's shield, and it has a point. If Russia is the enemy that all of Europe knows it needs to
14:37counter,
14:38Ukraine is creating the blueprint while giving its partners valuable time to prepare. As for Putin,
14:43the Stonecloak deal is as sure a sign as any that he has received so far that his attempts to
14:48divide and
14:49deter Ukraine's partners aren't working. That's the key point that Burnham made when announcing the new
14:53deal. Russia will still try to divide. It has intensified its shadow war behind the scenes in
14:59a renewed attempt to stop the flow of support to Ukraine. Sabotage on the territory of partners
15:03has been recorded, as have drone incursions, operations close to subsea cables, disinformation
15:09campaigns, and weaponized migration. All of this is supposed to intimidate countries like the UK,
15:14to the point where they stop doing things like granting licenses to Ukraine to produce a device
15:18that makes Russia weaker and Ukraine stronger. It isn't working. Ukraine's partners see through it
15:24all and know that desperation underpins everything that Putin is doing. The UK's Harry Potter-style
15:30weapon is just the latest to come to Ukraine, despite all of Russia's attempts to cajole and
15:34intimidate. It won't be the last. And Stonecloak will join an ever-growing list of weapons that Ukraine
15:39is building itself to send Russia back to the Stone Age. One of those weapons is a new addition to
15:44the
15:44battlefield, and it delivers one pound of chaos in a thermobaric grenade that is causing serious
15:49problems for Russia's forces. If you want to find out more, check out our video where we cover the
15:54RGT-45 500g pocket thermobaric grenade in detail. And if you enjoyed this video, remember to subscribe
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