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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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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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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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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
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Russia Produces Kamikaze Drone with Chinese Engine
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Samuel Bendett, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington DC-based think tank, told Reuters that Garpiya, if confirmed, would mark a dep...
By Samuel Bendett
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‘Flamethrower Drones’ Shower Ukraine Battlefield with Molten Thermite
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The footage from Ukraine marks the first known occasion of thermite being deployed by drone to saturate a concealed target, marking a new innovation, according to Samuel Bende...
By Samuel Bendett
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Arrest of Telegram Founder Could Hurt Public Understanding of the Ukraine War
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“On the Russian side, Telegram is used by all levels of the Russian ministry of defense, from the senior officials down to specific units who report on their progress, the Rus...
By Samuel Bendett
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With All Eyes on Kharkiv, Russian Troops Take One Donbas Village After Another
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FPV drones account for about 90% of the injuries over the past half a year, according to medic Oleksii, with the 130th Territorial Defense Brigade deployed near Chasiv Yar. Ol...
By Samuel Bendett
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Simple Drones, Complex Problems
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Unmanned systems have existed for many years but were considered an exclusive tool. That is no longer the case. Commercial drone use "came of age" in the Syrian civil war, sai...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia ramps up strike drone use on Kharkiv front, Ukrainian artillery crew says
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Samuel Bendett, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank, told Reuters he was tracking more mentions of Lancet strikes recently on pro-Russian soci...
By Samuel Bendett
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Drones Changed This Civil War, and Linked Rebels to the World
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Many also take advantage of the original use of these hobbyist gadgets: the video footage they take. In Ukraine and Myanmar alike, kill videos are set to heart-pumping music a...
By Samuel Bendett
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New Ukrainian Silent Attack Drones Put Russians On The Defensive
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The uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) is thought to be a modified agricultural drone, often designed as a quadcopter, hexacopter or octocopter, Samuel Bendett, of the U.S think ta...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine's AI Drone Gamble
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With machine vision, the objective is for the drone to find its way independently to its target, having learned to distinguish where it is in a given terrain. "The main goal i...
By Samuel Bendett
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The Russians Sent A Platoon Of Grenade-Hurling Robotic Mini-Tanks Into Battle. The Ukrainians Blew Up The ‘Bots In The Usual Way: With Drones.
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That the Russian UGVs are vulnerable to Ukrainian UAVs didn’t surprise Samuel Bendett, an advisor to Virginia-based CNA focusing on Russian military technology. “Right now, an...
By Samuel Bendett
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The Revolution That Wasn’t: How AI Drones Have Fizzled in Ukraine (So Far)
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In early February, a detailed report from the Center for a New American Security dismissed the AI drones in a few lines. “The Lancet-3 was advertised as having autonomous targ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Samuel Bendett
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Russians Fume over 19th-Century Machine Guns, WW1 Rifles in Ukraine
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The nearly two years of war across Ukraine have come at a high human cost, but have also claimed huge amounts of weaponry, including small arms. Both sides have made use of ol...
By Samuel Bendett
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How Cheap Drones Are Transforming Warfare in Ukraine
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The appeal of FPV drones is that they offer cheap, accurate firepower. Unguided artillery shells cost anywhere between $800 and $9,000. A GPS-guided shell is closer to $100,00...
By Franz-Stefan Gady & Samuel Bendett
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What Is VALK-1? 'Powerful' Ukrainian Drone Fighting Russia in Donetsk
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The drones are described as "all-weather," something which is a "key development," according to Samuel Bendett of the U.S. think tank the Center for Naval Analyses. They can "...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine Deploying Machine-Gun Mounted Robots to Attack Putin's Troops
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Both Russia and Ukraine are developing UGVs intended to "replace human soldiers in the most dangerous and casualty-intensive storming raids," said Samuel Bendett, of the Cente...
By Samuel Bendett
