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Hundreds of Russia’s Top Software Developers May Have Left the Country
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By the same token, the loss of so many tech workers could be a significant blow to Russia’s long-term prospects. “Their permanent departure from the Russian labour pool or fro...
By Samuel Bendett
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U.S. Has Viewed Wreckage of Kamikaze Drones Russia Used in Ukraine
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The drones pose a significant problem, analysts say. Many defensive systems capable of defeating them are costly, designed mostly for bigger threats like jets and helicopters,...
By Samuel Bendett
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Explainer: Killer Drones Vie for Supremacy over Ukraine
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According to the Ukrainian online publication Defense Express, which cites Iranian data, the delta-wing Shahed is 3.5 meters (11½ feet) long, 2.5 meters (8 feet, 3 inches) wid...
By Samuel Bendett
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Here’s What We Know about Why Russia Is Reportedly Using ‘Kamikaze’ Drones, and Where They Are Using Them
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The incessant buzzing of the propeller-driven Geran-2 drones — dubbed "mopeds" and "lawnmowers" by combatants — can induce terror for anyone under its flight path because no o...
By Samuel Bendett
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What to Know about the Iranian Kamikaze Drones Russia Is Using to Attack Ukraine
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Iran’s government has denied it is supplying drones to Russia to use in Ukraine but their deployment has already been widely documented since September. Ukrainian troops regul...
By Samuel Bendett
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What Are Kamikaze Drones? Here’s How Russia and Ukraine Are Using Them
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Unlike many other attack drones, they do not use weapons to destroy their targets. They are the weapon. The kamikaze drones used by Russia are believed to be imported from Ira...
By Samuel Bendett
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Drone Boats Are Joining the Ukraine War. But Will They Matter?
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Samuel Bendett, a member of the Center for Naval Analyses’ Russia Studies Program and an adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security, is curious to see whether Uk...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia-Ukraine war: Algeria could face weapons crisis due to conflict, say analysts
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Russian weapons sales to Algeria are likely to fall as a result of the conflict in Ukraine, but the North African country is so heavily reliant on Moscow for its military hard...
By Samuel Bendett
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Can Russia Defeat U.S. HIMARS in Ukraine With Iran's Drones?
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Russia is adding Iranian drones to its war arsenal, though experts aren't sure they will have a significant impact against the U.S.-supplied High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Sys...
By Samuel Bendett
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Why Crimea matters: Ukrainian attacks are frightening Russian tourists and forcing Russia’s army to change tactics
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The Ukrainians’ ability to strike inside Crimea, however they’re doing it, is likely forcing the Russians to draw troops away from front lines elsewhere in the conflict. "When...
By Samuel Bendett
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How Bigger Kamikaze Drones Expected From U.S. Could Boost Ukraine's Fight
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Experts believe that the attributes of the large drones could help Ukraine in an expected upcoming effort to regain territory lost to Russia this year in the Kherson region an...
By Samuel Bendett
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Delayed kamikaze drone for Ukraine on track for next month: Pentagon
While Russia’s five-month-old invasion of Ukraine has mostly been an artillery war, thousands of drones are being used by both sides, and both the United States and Russia hav...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia’s naval doctrine may call for challenging the West, but does it have the shipyards?
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Much like the United States, China and other countries though, traditional warships are only one part to the future fleet Russia wants to build. Another element that the count...
By Samuel Bendett
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How HIMARS and Sanctions are Choking Russia’s Weapons Trade
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Moscow will go to great lengths to protect its military exports, even while under pressure to replace equipment destroyed in Ukraine. "We're in a state right now where it's mo...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia is Training Drone Hobbyists to Fight in Ukraine
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It’s not clear how “coordinated work in combat crews” differs from combat. And that blurs the line between civilians and troops and creates a new type of combatant, said Sam B...
By Samuel Bendett
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How electronic warfare is reshaping the war between Russia and Ukraine
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Electronic warfare systems have been used by both Russia and Ukraine in recent months to locate, disrupt and jam electronic and GPS signals from weapons and drones. The system...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Needs More Commercial Drone Pilots For Its War in Ukraine
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“In this sense, the main goal of the ‘Dronnitsa’ meet is to initiate the formation of such an instructor corps, to establish, in fact, a new specialty—an instructor in the com...
By Samuel Bendett
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As Russia Runs Low on Drones, Iran Plans to Step In, U.S. Officials Say
Iran has supplied drone technology to Hezbollah in Lebanon; to Houthi rebels in Yemen attacking Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates; and to Shiite militias in Iraq, whic...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Seems to Be Running Low on Drones
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Russia, which used drones to terrifying effect in its initial 2014 invasion of Ukraine, appears in the current campaign to be losing both small and large drones at a rapid pac...
By Samuel Bendett
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White House: Iran set to deliver armed drones to Russia
The White House on Monday said it believes Russia is turning to Iran to provide it with “hundreds” of unmanned aerial vehicles, including weapons-capable drones, for use in it...
By Samuel Bendett
