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China Has Hobbled Russia's Drone Industry
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Beijing's ban on larger drones and some components needed to build uncrewed technology is "now a hotly debated topic" across Russian sectors and organizations involved with Mo...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia ramps up drone, guided bomb attacks to thwart counteroffensive
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Russian state media has reported a ramp-up in production of Lancets, and at a cost estimated at $30,000 to $35,000, they are far cheaper than higher-end drones and missiles, s...
By Samuel Bendett
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Defense firms research voice commands to speak with drones
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“The ultimate goal right now, largely influenced by Ukraine, is to make the interactions between the operator and the drone as efficient as possible,” said Samuel Bendett, res...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine primes air defences for new Russian winter assault on power grid
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Ukraine appears to have prepared well for more strikes by drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), but their gradually increasing numbers could pose a problem, said Samuel B...
By Samuel Bendett
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Why Ukraine is able to embarrass Russia's air defense systems, among the most advanced in the world, with small drones
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"Russia boasted of having layered defenses before the war, the sensor electronic warfare, different missile batteries, kinetic batteries, radars, that can sort of identify and...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russians Are Developing An Arsenal Of Deadlier FPV Drones — But Bureaucracy Is Holding Them Back
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Samuel Bendett, an expert Russian drones and adviser to both the CNA and CNAS, told Forbes that at present Russian FPVs are mainly used by irregular units from the Russian-con...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia’s New Long-Range Kamikaze Drone Will Be Built In A Shopping Mall
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“If this Izdelie 54 is a ‘long-range’ drone, it will probably have to compete more with Shahed, but it all depends on specs,” Samuel Bendett an expert Russian drones and advis...
By Samuel Bendett
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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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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
