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Russia Is Replicating Iranian Drones and Using Them to Attack Ukraine
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Military analysts have been watching to see whether Russia would be able to make its own one-way attack drones since the Iranian weapons entered the conflict, according to Sam...
By Samuel Bendett
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Behind Ukraine’s Deadly Drones: Putin’s Invasion and Biden’s Limits
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“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 federall...
By Samuel Bendett
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The war in Ukraine is spurring a revolution in drone warfare using AI
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“Once that software has been developed, it’s effectively costless for that software to proliferate and be reused elsewhere,” said Paul Scharre, a drone expert at the Center fo...
By Paul Scharre & Samuel Bendett
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Ground vehicles are the new frontier in Ukraine's drone war
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One advantage of UGVs is their low cost - the parts for Hnatok's smaller machines cost less than 30,000 hryvnias ($812). The impact of combat UGVs from both sides has been ext...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ramzan Kadyrov’s ‘TikTok battalion’ seeks to replace Wagner in Ukraine
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Apti Alaudinov, commander of Kadyrov’s Akhmat battalion, said that his fighters had been deployed to Rostov to stave off the rebellion and came within 500 to 700 metre distanc...
By Samuel Bendett
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Cheap Russian drone a menace to Ukrainian troops and equipment
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Russia's defence ministry has been encouraging an increase of production of the Lancet as a cheap way to hit high-value western equipment given to Ukraine for its counteroffen...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia’s 'Sirius' Prototype Killer Drone Caught Flying on Camera
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Samuel Bendett, an expert on Russian uncrewed systems and AI at the Center for Naval Analyses and the CNAS think tank, wrote to Pop Mech: “Sirius is a pre-war legacy system, a...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Has a Big Drone Problem
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Samuel Bendett, a co-author of the CNA report, told Newsweek that there are several fundamental issues for Moscow's military-industrial complex, not least that Russia relies o...
By Samuel Bendett
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How not to innovate: Russia plays catch-up to Ukraine on drones
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Meanwhile, Russia has struggled to get out of its own way, with grass-roots civilian groups fighting to get imported Chinese quadcopters past the Soviet-style bureaucracy to t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Bayraktar TB2 drones were hailed as Ukraine's savior and the future of warfare. A year later, they've practically disappeared.
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Multiple reports and videos surfaced of Ukraine using the weapons to strike Russian tanks, armor, and patrol boats. Their popularity even inspired a viral folk song. However, ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Rheinmetall pitches unmanned mothership full of tiny attack drones
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While the drone carrier idea is not new by itself, the design was likely influenced by the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine, according to Samuel Bendett, research an...
By Samuel Bendett
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Putin 'Assassination' Attempt Raises Eyebrows
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Samuel Bendett, an adjunct senior fellow and advisor at the Center for a New American Security, told Newsweek via email that he "tends to agree" with Fokht's theory. "I am ske...
By Samuel Bendett
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Kremlin Drone Incident: Zelenskiy Denies Russian Claim Ukraine Attempted to Kill Putin
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Samuel Bendett, a drone specialist with the Center for Naval Analyses in the US, said the video of what appeared to be the second drone raid suggested the craft had thin wings...
By Samuel Bendett
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Verified Videos Show Two Explosions Over the Kremlin.
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Samuel Bendett, an expert on autonomous military systems in the Russian Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses, a federally funded organization in Arlington, Va., sa...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine Denies Kremlin’s Claim of Drone Assassination Attempt on Putin
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Privately, officials have acknowledged a Ukrainian role in some of the most dramatic strikes, such as last year’s drone attack on the Engels-2 strategic bomber air base in Sar...
By Samuel Bendett
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Details in the drone incident the Kremlin says aimed to assassinate Putin 'don't quite add up.' Experts have 3 theories on what happened.
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But experts told Insider that despite bold statements from both countries, much remains uncertain. "There is a lot we still don't know about this strike," said Samuel Bendett,...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Says Ukraine Tried to Kill Putin in a Kremlin Drone Attack. It Didn't Work.
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Samuel Bendett, an expert on Russian developments in drone and AI at the Center for Naval Analyses and CNAS security think tank, told Popular Mechanics that the attack’s launc...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Claims Ukraine Launched a Drone Attack on the Kremlin
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It is impossible to tell from video being shared on social media where the drone that exploded over the Kremlin came from, said Samuel Bendett, an adviser with CNA, a non-prof...
By Samuel Bendett
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Kremlin Drone Attack: Who Is Responsible?
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"At this point, it may be Ukraine's own UJ-22 drone, or a Chinese-made Mugin-5, which was apparently used by Ukraine before," while Kyiv's PD-1 drone is another option, said S...
By Samuel Bendett
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Kremlin Accuses Ukraine of Trying to Assassinate Putin With Drones
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Samuel Bendett, an adjunct senior fellow and advisor at the Center for a New American Security, who posted footage of the alleged attack on Twitter, told Newsweek that lots of...
By Samuel Bendett
