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DJI Mavic Consumer Drones Are Still Russian Soldiers’ Favorite
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Three years into the war, both sides rely heavily on consumer drones, specifically the Mavic series made by DJI. The Chinese company has publicly deplored any military use of ...
By Samuel Bendett
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A New and More Deadly Drone on Russia’s Battlefields
“There’s been a huge surge in their drone numbers lately, and so many different ‘birds’ in the air, including a lot of fiber-optic drones that you can’t jam,” said Anatoliy, t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine Collapse Myth Leaves Out Tech Factor in Sea and Land Wins
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About a year ago, a media narrative that Ukraine was collapsing militarily took hold globally. That common wisdom surely played a major role in convincing US President Donald ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russians Lash FPVs Together To Make Frankenstein Heavy Lift Drones
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Russian soldiers have found a novel way to get around their lack of heavy-lift drones: strapping four small drones to a frame to create a device known as “Vobla.”...
By Samuel Bendett
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In Ukraine, Expect to See More Ground Drones On the Battlefield to Keep Soldiers Safe
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Ukraine has been throwing everything it can at Russia as its all-out invasion nears the three-year mark. The latest weapon in the military's arsenal? Ground drones....
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine’s Marauding Sea Drones Bewilder Russia
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On December 31, a Ukrainian naval drone destroyed a Russian Mi-8 helicopter for the first time using missiles launched from the unmanned craft. Two days later, Ukraine managed...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia-Ukraine Drone War Enters New Phase
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Russia is striding ahead with its wielding of fiber-optic drones, the head of Ukraine's drone programs told high-ranking Ukrainian officials at the start of the year...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Turns to China to Step Up AI Race Against U.S.
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Russia's efforts to obtain China's help in enhancing artificial intelligence is seen as a bid to challenge America's lead in the field even as the outgoing Biden administratio...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russian Schoolchildren Are Learning to Fight the Next Drone War
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Russian schoolchildren are learning to build and fly drones, in response to a decree issued by Putin in 2023: “I fully support the proposals made by our companies so that chil...
By Samuel Bendett
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‘It Is Impossible to Outrun Them’: How Drones Transformed War in Ukraine
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Denys, a soldier with Ukraine’s Khyzhak brigade, describes a new kind of war. Standing in a barracks workshop with piles of basic Ukrainian First Person View (FPV) drones behi...
By Samuel Bendett
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2024: A Year Marked by the Rise of Drone Warfare
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With its distinctive, pulsating, motorbike-like sound, the V1 flying bomb — or "buzz bomb" — was one the most fear-inducing weapons of World War II....
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine Collects Vast War Data Trove to Train AI Models
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As the future of warfare pivots towards artificial intelligence, Ukraine is sitting on a valuable resource: millions of hours of footage from drones which can be used to train...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russian Forces Test Flying Flamethrower to Target Ukrainian Firedrones
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Russian troops claim to have developed a flamethrower drone designed to counter Ukrainian first-person-view drones carrying an incendiary burning mixture, a tactic experts say...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine Rolls Out Dozens of AI Systems to Help Its Drones Hit Targets
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KYIV, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine is using dozens of domestically made AI-augmented systems for its drones to reach targets on the battlefield without being piloted, a senior o...
By Samuel Bendett
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Military AI Drones Could Take Over Future Warfare, Experts Warn
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“At some point,” Samuel Bendett, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for New American Security, tells Popular Mechanics, “military autonomy will become cost effective enough t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukrainian Shooter Downs Russian Drone with WWI-Era Machine Gun
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New footage appears to show Ukrainian troops firing decades-old guns to shoot down an Iranian-built Russian drone. A brief clip shared online appears to show a spurt of gunfir...
By Samuel Bendett
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Army Revamps Basic Training to Simulate Battlefield Stalked by Drone Swarms
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One lesson from the Ukraine war is that when U.S. troops deploy to combat zones, they must be constantly aware that “literally the sky above you, just above the treetops, can ...
By Samuel Bendett
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As Ukraine Builds Better Drones, Do American Firms Still Have a Role?
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Drones have been crucial for surveillance, targeting and strikes on the battlefield throughout the war in Ukraine. In response, its president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has become mo...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Likely Shot Down One of Its Own Rare Combat Drones to Try to Stop It from Falling into Enemy Hands, UK Intel Says
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A Russian heavy-combat drone that crashed in Ukraine this month was shot down by Russia, likely in an effort to stop it from falling into Ukrainian hands, the UK's Ministry of...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Has Secret War Drones Project in China, Intel Sources Say
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Still, Samuel Bendett, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a Washington-based think-tank, said Beijing would be hesitant to open itself ...
By Samuel Bendett
