Behind Ukraine’s Deadly Drones: Putin’s Invasion and Biden’s Limits

“The Ukrainian defense industry is learning and adapting very quickly,” said Samuel Bendett, an expert on unmanned aerial vehicles at the Center for Naval Analyses, a federally funded research organization in Arlington, Va.

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Bendett at CNA estimated that Kyiv has begun or will soon be producing at least six different types of long-range suicide drones and that recent strikes may be probing Russian air defenses in preparation for a mass-scale attack involving dozens of drones that would converge on the city from several directions and at different altitudes.

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“The fact that they do reach the city and reach the city center speaks to the success of that tactic, however it is implemented,” said Bendett, who attributed part of the attacks’ effectiveness to sophisticated intelligence gathering efforts by Kyiv.

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