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As Russia Runs Low on Drones, Iran Plans to Step In, U.S. Officials SayIran has supplied drone technology to Hezbollah in Lebanon; to Houthi rebels in Yemen attacking Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates; and to Shiite militias in Iraq, whic...
By Samuel Bendett
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Chinese drone maker lobbies to defeat US national security banChina’s blacklisted DJI is battling to maintain its dominance of the US drone market by lobbying Congress to block a bill barring the federal government from buying its unmann...
By Alexandra Seymour
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Russia Seems to Be Running Low on DronesRussia, which used drones to terrifying effect in its initial 2014 invasion of Ukraine, appears in the current campaign to be losing both small and large drones at a rapid pac...
By Samuel Bendett
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White House: Iran set to deliver armed drones to RussiaThe White House on Monday said it believes Russia is turning to Iran to provide it with “hundreds” of unmanned aerial vehicles, including weapons-capable drones, for use in it...
By Samuel Bendett
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In North Africa, a fighter jet arms race, with Russia and the US on either sideWhile it may not make the rounds in Washington as one of the big geopolitical rivalries of the era, tensions between Morocco and Algeria are real, and have escalated in recent...
By Samuel Bendett
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Pentagon reaches important waypoint in long journey toward adopting ‘responsible AI’The Pentagon’s new 47-page responsible AI implementation plan will inform its work to sort through the incredibly thorny known and unknown issues that could come with fully in...
By Megan Lamberth
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Russian Officials Talk About Unplugging the Country from the Internet. But Is That Possible?Russian officials are talking about cutting their country off from the internet amid the international and domestic backlash to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But would the sys...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Is Turning Its Small Drones Into (Inaccurate) BombersRussia may have just gained more than a thousand new bombers. But Ukrainian forces may have little to worry about, as the Orlan-10 drones they are converting into attack plane...
By Samuel Bendett
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‘War-enabling, not war-winning’: how are drones affecting the Ukraine war?Shot after shot pounded into the Russian missile battery hidden by the lighthouse on Snake Island, a Black Sea rock 22 miles (35km) from the Ukrainian coast. The edited video,...
By Samuel Bendett
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The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in techA command centre to scan the digital realm for global disinformation campaigns. Standardised plugs for electric cars that will work both in America and in the European Union (...
By Martijn Rasser
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Russia's tanks in Ukraine have a 'jack-in-the-box' design flaw. And the West has known about it since the Gulf warRussian tanks with their tops blown off are just the latest sign that Russia's invasion of Ukraine isn't going to plan. Hundreds of Russian tanks are thought to have been des...
By Samuel Bendett
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UN Secretary-General Stops in Ankara on Way to Kyiv, MoscowU.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Monday, ahead of planned visits to Ukraine and Russia in efforts to end the Ukrain...
By Samuel Bendett
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AI Is Already Learning from Russia’s War in Ukraine, DOD SaysLess has been said about the use of artificial intelligence in the Ukraine war than, say, anti-tank missiles, but the Pentagon is quietly using AI and machine-learning tools t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia’s Make-or-Break Gambit in the DonbasHaving failed to achieve their initial goal of a lightning campaign to seize the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Russian forces are focusing their efforts on the Donbas region in t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russian Scientists Say They Have A New System to Monitor Attacks on the Russian InternetAs Russia rains artillery fire down on Ukrainian cities, cyber attackers from around the world have been targeting Russian media, cryptocurrency services, and retail brands wi...
By Samuel Bendett
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In Ukraine, civilians shape narrative of the warThe images stream by like a dystopian slide show: Ukrainian farmers pulling abandoned Russian tanks from black soil. Bodies and buildings shredded in airstrikes. A young woman...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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The smartphone war: Soldiers, civilians and satellites give the world a window onto Russian invasionA month and a half into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we’ve become so used to the steady stream of videos and images coming from the front lines that it's easy to forget it's ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Chechen Wars Offer a Glimpse of Putin’s Next MoveWhen I see images of Mariupol’s devastation, watch footage of burnt-out Russian tanks or hear the increasingly frequent Ukrainian accounts of kidnappings and disappearances, a...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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How drones are helping fuel propaganda in Ukraine“[The] Russians are carefully releasing videos of Forpost-R and Orion combat drones as well to try and compete with a Bayraktar narrative,” said Samuel Bendett, an analyst at ...
By Samuel Bendett
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What the city of Mariupol means for Ukraine — and for Russia's military campaignThe southeast Ukraine city of Mariupol has been battered by Russian airstrikes in recent weeks. Among the buildings hit have been a maternity hospital, a theater and an arts s...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
