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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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Technology & National Security
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
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How access to satellite images shifts the view of warRita Konaev, associate director of analysis at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, says satellite imagery "has been an aspect of modern confli...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Ukraine has destroyed nearly 10% of Russia's tanks, making experts ask: Are tanks over?This vanguard role, held then by foot soldiers and now by tanks, will likely shift to drones, robotic vehicles, and long-range strike systems. "Tanks are going to move, over ...
By Paul Scharre
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Putin could launch AI attack on UK if he feels threatened in Ukraine war, expert warnsSamuel Bendett, an expert on Russia's AI and military, told Express.co.uk: "Russia’s most successful use of AI appears to be in information and cyber warfare, and that may imp...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Eyeing China, US Business Community Waits for Washington to Make Next MoveIn the current climate, businesses would be wise to rethink their China strategy, said Martijn Rasser, a former senior intelligence officer at the U.S. Central Intelligence Ag...
By Martijn Rasser
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Over Ukraine, Lumbering Turkish-Made Drones Are an Ominous Sign for Russia“It is so perplexing, and no one is quite sure what went wrong,” said Samuel Bendett, an expert on the Russian military at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington...
By Samuel Bendett & Michael Kofman
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
The U.S. can’t stop Poland from giving Ukraine its MiGsThe fact that small Russian units have been so regularly ambushed in the early days of the war indicates they weren’t using small drones for surveillance and reconnaissance, i...
By Samuel Bendett
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Cyber Command chief tells Congress chip shortage has national security implicationsChina’s increasing progress toward producing enough semiconductor chips domestically to avoid relying on foreign trade is a “very timely question” and one of “great concern fo...
By Martijn Rasser
