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Russian Officials Talk About Unplugging the Country from the Internet. But Is That Possible?
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Russian officials are talking about cutting their country off from the internet amid the international and domestic backlash to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But would the sys...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Is Turning Its Small Drones Into (Inaccurate) Bombers
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Russia may have just gained more than a thousand new bombers. But Ukrainian forces may have little to worry about, as the Orlan-10 drones they are converting into attack plane...
By Samuel Bendett
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‘War-enabling, not war-winning’: how are drones affecting the Ukraine war?
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Shot after shot pounded into the Russian missile battery hidden by the lighthouse on Snake Island, a Black Sea rock 22 miles (35km) from the Ukrainian coast. The edited video,...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia's tanks in Ukraine have a 'jack-in-the-box' design flaw. And the West has known about it since the Gulf war
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Russian tanks with their tops blown off are just the latest sign that Russia's invasion of Ukraine isn't going to plan. Hundreds of Russian tanks are thought to have been des...
By Samuel Bendett
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UN Secretary-General Stops in Ankara on Way to Kyiv, Moscow
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Monday, ahead of planned visits to Ukraine and Russia in efforts to end the Ukrain...
By Samuel Bendett
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AI Is Already Learning from Russia’s War in Ukraine, DOD Says
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Less has been said about the use of artificial intelligence in the Ukraine war than, say, anti-tank missiles, but the Pentagon is quietly using AI and machine-learning tools t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia’s Make-or-Break Gambit in the Donbas
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Having failed to achieve their initial goal of a lightning campaign to seize the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Russian forces are focusing their efforts on the Donbas region in t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russian Scientists Say They Have A New System to Monitor Attacks on the Russian Internet
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As Russia rains artillery fire down on Ukrainian cities, cyber attackers from around the world have been targeting Russian media, cryptocurrency services, and retail brands wi...
By Samuel Bendett
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The smartphone war: Soldiers, civilians and satellites give the world a window onto Russian invasion
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A month and a half into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we’ve become so used to the steady stream of videos and images coming from the front lines that it's easy to forget it's ...
By Samuel Bendett
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How drones are helping fuel propaganda in Ukraine
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“[The] Russians are carefully releasing videos of Forpost-R and Orion combat drones as well to try and compete with a Bayraktar narrative,” said Samuel Bendett, an analyst at ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Putin could launch AI attack on UK if he feels threatened in Ukraine war, expert warns
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Samuel Bendett, an expert on Russia's AI and military, told Express.co.uk: "Russia’s most successful use of AI appears to be in information and cyber warfare, and that may imp...
By Samuel Bendett
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Over Ukraine, Lumbering Turkish-Made Drones Are an Ominous Sign for Russia
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“It is so perplexing, and no one is quite sure what went wrong,” said Samuel Bendett, an expert on the Russian military at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington...
By Samuel Bendett & Michael Kofman
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The U.S. can’t stop Poland from giving Ukraine its MiGs
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The fact that small Russian units have been so regularly ambushed in the early days of the war indicates they weren’t using small drones for surveillance and reconnaissance, i...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia’s Marker Robot is a Testbed For Its Next-Gen Military Tech
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This month, Russia announced that it had completed research on its experimental Marker robot combat vehicle. The machine, designed from the start as a testbed for future tools...
By Samuel Bendett
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Meet the ‘Spy Stone,’ a Russian Robot Disguised as a Rock
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Under lightly falling snow, a soldier sets a rock on the ground. A moment later the rock animates, extending first a periscope-like camera, and then lifting the whole of its r...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russian Mail Drones Could Simplify Siberian Postal Delivery
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On its platform, the helicopter-style SH-350 drone receives a blue package in a pelican-case-style box. Tied tight into place, it rises with the drone over a field of snow. Th...
By Samuel Bendett
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Zapad military drills showcase Russian unmanned robots’ battlefield breakthrough
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Russia has employed unmanned ground vehicles in combat formations for the first time, a significant step in the country’s quest to develop an effective all-robot military unit...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia wants to launch little drones off of other drones off of ships
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Russia wants to replace the helicopter scouts on its existing ships with longer-range drones. Announced earlier this week by Russia’s Advanced Research Foundation (an analog t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Report: China Is Hacking Russia, Too
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Much has been made about the emerging relationship between China and Russia, two countries that the National Defense Strategy recognizes as near-peer competitors to the United...
By Samuel Bendett
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Heavy-lifting Russian drones could resupply soldiers on future battlefields
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Rostec, the massive Russian defense corporation, announced at the annual MAKS-2021 arms show in late July that it wants to make a better fleet of cargo drones, including one c...
By Samuel Bendett
