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How Cheap Drones Are Transforming Warfare in UkraineThe 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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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Ukraine Deploying Machine-Gun Mounted Robots to Attack Putin's TroopsBoth 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
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Technology & National Security
Russian Volunteer Group Claims To Make 1,000 FPV Kamikaze Drones A Day“It looks like the MoD is partnering up with some of the largest efforts like Sudoplatov and Project Archangel,” Samuel Bendett, an advisor to the CNA, CNAS and CSIS and an ex...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Anduril’s New Drone Killer Is Locked on to AI-Powered WarfareSamuel Bendett, an expert on the military use of drones at the Center for New American Security, a think tank, says Roadrunner could be used in Ukraine to intercept Iranian-ma...
By Samuel Bendett
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Explosive Drones Are Everywhere In Ukraine. So the Infantry Head Underground, And Erect Screens.
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A Ukrainian FPV drone chasing down two Russian air-defenders speeding along on a motorbike. A Ukrainian drone watching a Russian infantry squad take shelter inside a wrecked a...
By Samuel Bendett
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Defense / Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
In Israel and Ukraine, Mix of Drones and Brute Force Shows Warfare’s Future“It’s a constant competition between measures and countermeasures,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security. U.S. for...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Ukraine Targets Crimea for Second Day in a Row, Russia SaysSince the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion last year, Moscow has used Crimea to stockpile fuel and ammunition to be funneled to the battlefields in southern Ukraine, wher...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
China Has Hobbled Russia's Drone IndustryBeijing'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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Technology & National Security
Russia ramps up drone, guided bomb attacks to thwart counteroffensiveRussian 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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Technology & National Security
Ukraine primes air defences for new Russian winter assault on power gridUkraine 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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Technology & National Security
Defense firms research voice commands to speak with drones“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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Technology & National Security
Why Ukraine is able to embarrass Russia's air defense systems, among the most advanced in the world, with small drones"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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Technology & National Security
Russians Are Developing An Arsenal Of Deadlier FPV Drones — But Bureaucracy Is Holding Them BackSamuel 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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Technology & National Security
Russia Is Replicating Iranian Drones and Using Them to Attack UkraineMilitary 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“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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Technology & National Security
The war in Ukraine is spurring a revolution in drone warfare using AI“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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Technology & National Security
Ground vehicles are the new frontier in Ukraine's drone warOne 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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Technology & National Security
Cheap Russian drone a menace to Ukrainian troops and equipmentRussia'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
