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Ukraine Bets Big on Interceptor Drones as Low-Cost Air Shieldhen President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said at the end of last month that Ukraine needs $6 billion to fund the production of interceptor drones, setting a target of 1,000 a day, he...
By Samuel Bendett
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How The Marine Corps Is Preparing For Drone Wars — And What’s MissingA new 1st Marine Division handbook shows how the Corps has modernized its thinking and is preparing to fight a drone war. It also reveals how far there is to go, not just in d...
By Samuel Bendett
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Military Experts Weigh In on China’s New Mosquito-Like Spy DroneLast month, China's National University of Defense Technology unveiled a new spy drone designed to look like a mosquito. Showcased on the state-run CCTV-7 military broadcaster...
By Samuel Bendett
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Russia Is Ready to Begin Its Summer OffensiveVladimir Putin appears increasingly confident that Russia will ultimately prevail on the battlefield in Ukraine as Moscow wages a bloody summer offensive....
By Samuel Bendett
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Russia Is Closing in on Ukraine’s Tech AdvantageIt’s year four of Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine....
By Samuel Bendett
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Soldiers Have a Huge Stake in Ukraine-Russia Drone-Tech Arms RaceUkrainian drone warfare has evolved from improvisation to a high‑volume, precision‑strike ecosystem that Russia often struggles to match. With some operators flying up to 15 m...
By Samuel Bendett
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
The Russia-Ukraine Drone War: Innovation on the Frontlines and BeyondToday we’ve got a really exciting event on “The Russia-Ukraine Drone War” and all the kinds of technological innovation going on in that drone war, including but not limited t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Expands Drone Capabilities as Ukraine Conflict ContinuesWhile many of Ukraine’s technological advancements resulting from the war with Russia are well-known, Russian capabilities are also continuing to evolve, including the integra...
By Samuel Bendett
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
The Phony War: Ukraine and Russia’s Decoy DronesKyiv’s drones have hit targets ever deeper into Russian territory in the first months of 2025, destroying oil refineries, airfields, and crippling infrastructure that fuels Ru...
By Samuel Bendett
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
DJI Mavic Consumer Drones Are Still Russian Soldiers’ FavoriteThree years into the war, both sides rely heavily on consumer drones, specifically the Mavic series made by DJI. The Chinese company has publicly deplored any military use of ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
A New and More Deadly Drone on Russia’s Battlefields“There’s been a huge surge in their drone numbers lately, and so many different ‘birds’ in the air, including a lot of fiber-optic drones that you can’t jam,” said Anatoliy, t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Ukraine Collapse Myth Leaves Out Tech Factor in Sea and Land WinsAbout a year ago, a media narrative that Ukraine was collapsing militarily took hold globally. That common wisdom surely played a major role in convincing US President Donald ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Defense / Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Russians Lash FPVs Together To Make Frankenstein Heavy Lift DronesRussian soldiers have found a novel way to get around their lack of heavy-lift drones: strapping four small drones to a frame to create a device known as “Vobla.”...
By Samuel Bendett
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
In Ukraine, Expect to See More Ground Drones On the Battlefield to Keep Soldiers SafeUkraine has been throwing everything it can at Russia as its all-out invasion nears the three-year mark. The latest weapon in the military's arsenal? Ground drones....
By Samuel Bendett
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Ukraine’s Marauding Sea Drones Bewilder RussiaOn December 31, a Ukrainian naval drone destroyed a Russian Mi-8 helicopter for the first time using missiles launched from the unmanned craft. Two days later, Ukraine managed...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia-Ukraine Drone War Enters New PhaseRussia is striding ahead with its wielding of fiber-optic drones, the head of Ukraine's drone programs told high-ranking Ukrainian officials at the start of the year...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Turns to China to Step Up AI Race Against U.S.Russia's efforts to obtain China's help in enhancing artificial intelligence is seen as a bid to challenge America's lead in the field even as the outgoing Biden administratio...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russian Schoolchildren Are Learning to Fight the Next Drone WarRussian schoolchildren are learning to build and fly drones, in response to a decree issued by Putin in 2023: “I fully support the proposals made by our companies so that chil...
By Samuel Bendett
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‘It Is Impossible to Outrun Them’: How Drones Transformed War in UkraineDenys, a soldier with Ukraine’s Khyzhak brigade, describes a new kind of war. Standing in a barracks workshop with piles of basic Ukrainian First Person View (FPV) drones behi...
By Samuel Bendett
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2024: A Year Marked by the Rise of Drone WarfareWith its distinctive, pulsating, motorbike-like sound, the V1 flying bomb — or "buzz bomb" — was one the most fear-inducing weapons of World War II....
By Samuel Bendett
