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How Ukraine Is Taking the Fight Back to Russia in CrimeaUkraine has continued to target the bridge and its supporting infrastructure. “Despite numerous Russian attempts to secure the peninsula-based assets, Ukrainian drones still m...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine Inks Defense Agreements with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, with UAE to Follow“Ukraine has been countering Shahed/Geran drones for years, [and] all features of this defense are of interest to the Gulf: identifying incoming drones (SIGINT/ELINT); sharing...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia’s New KVS Drone May Be Designed To Restore Reach In The FPV WarBy Samuel Bendett
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Russian Female Drone Pilots Flying Against The Wind Of Tradition“Russia’s traditional attitude towards the general role of women may preclude a wider acceptance of even professional drone pilots across the force,” Samuel Bendett, an expert...
By Samuel Bendett
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Iranian Drones Challenge Gulf’s Air Defenses
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Iran unleashed hundreds of drone strikes this weekend on Gulf Arab states, damaging U.S. bases and critical infrastructure and presenting a serious challenge to the Middle Eas...
By Samuel Bendett
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Iran Strike Marks First Time U.S. Used New One-Way Attack Drones in Combat
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As part of its wave of airstrikes against Iran this weekend, U.S. Central Command confirmed that it had launched its new low-cost kamikaze drones, the first time the weapons h...
By Samuel Bendett
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Starlink Shutdown: Musk Throws Russian Forces Into Chaos
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The Russian invasion force is in disarray following the deactivation of its Starlink satellite communications. Meanwhile Ukrainians are rushing to get their terminals whitelis...
By Samuel Bendett
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2025 Proved the Case for Drone Defense
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As mass-produced strike and FPV drones reshape battlefields from Ukraine to the Red Sea, the United States is scrambling to bend the cost curve, scale affordable interceptors,...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine’s Campaign Against Russia’s Shadow Fleet Goes GlobalUkraine has struck a Russian “shadow fleet” oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea, signaling a significant expansion of Kyiv’s long-range maritime campaign against Moscow’s sanc...
By Samuel Bendett
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How Ukraine Became the World’s Most Recorded War—and a Laboratory for AI-Driven CombatSamuel Bendett, CNAS adjunct senior fellow, is a leading analyst of Russian military technology, with a focus on drones, robotic and autonomous systems, and artificial intelli...
By Samuel Bendett
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Inside Zelensky’s “Mega-Drone Deal” with the U.S.Often lost in the Trump administration's on-again, off-again offer to deliver Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine is the proposed deal that would see Kyiv supply military technology ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine’s Drone War over the Black Sea Is Heating UpUkraine has turned to drones and asymmetrical warfare to counter Russia’s superior firepower, but nowhere has this strategy been more effective than in the Black Sea....
By Samuel Bendett
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Behind Russia’s Battlefield Drone Surge in Ukraine? Chinese Factories.China has materially helped Russia gain a key battlefield advantage in its grinding war against Ukraine, dramatically increasing exports over the summer of key components need...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine’s Sea Drones Are Now Launching Unjammable Fiber-Optic DronesA new kind of Ukrainian sea drone may be accelerating the evolution of naval warfare....
By Samuel Bendett
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Exclusive: Chinese Drone Experts Worked with Sanctioned Russian Arms Maker, Sources SayChinese drone experts have flown to Russia to conduct technical development work on military drones at a state-owned weapons manufacturer that is under Western sanctions, acco...
By Samuel Bendett
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The Ukraine War Accelerates the International Drone Arms RaceRussian drones entered Polish airspace early on Wednesday, leading NATO aircraft to shoot them down. This incident was the first time that NATO forces had to directly engage R...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russian Drones Have Entered Several NATO Countries’ Airspace. Far More May Be Within Their RangeThe latest massive aerial attack on Ukraine hit a new milestone in the continuing escalation of Russian bombardments, after Poland announced that it had closed airports and do...
By Samuel Bendett
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Is NATO Prepared for Autonomous Warfare?In a clear sign of the Kremlin’s ambitions, nineteen Russian drones crossed into Poland’s airspace in an attempt to test NATO’s resolve. Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukrainian Soldiers Race To Transform The War With RoboticsIn an old Soviet-era warehouse just miles from the front in Donetsk Oblast, sparks fly from a welding torch as Ukrainian engineers crouch over the metal frame of a ground robo...
By Samuel Bendett
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Ukraine Unveils New 'JET MAX' Bomber Drone: What To KnowUkrainian developers have unveiled a new "bomber drone" designed to target Russian soldiers and armored targets like tanks, according to local reports, as Moscow works to catc...
By Samuel Bendett
