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Azerbaijan’s Growing Drone Arsenal May Have Led It To Believe It Has Edge Over Armenia
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Azerbaijan’s growing inventory of armed drones may have convinced Baku that it has a substantial enough military and technological edge over Armenia that it could prevail in t...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia just released footage of a brand new combat exoskeleton in action
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Russian state-owned defense corporation Rostec has released footage of a brand-new combat exoskeleton for assault operations in action. The video footage, published by Rostec ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia’s Weird Fixar Drone Offers Military Capabilities At Commercial Rates
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Russia’s Fixar drone is designed for the sweet spot between quadcopters and fixed-wing aircraft. With rotors set at an angle and wings for efficiency, it can take off and land...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Uses ‘Swarm Of Drones’ In Military Exercise For The First Time
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Russian state news agency TASS reports that a swarm of drones was used for the first time in a military exercise.The drone operation was part of the giant Kavkaz-2020 (Caucasu...
By Samuel Bendett
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The Army wants to build a brand new exoskeleton to help soldiers ruck faster and harder
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The Army is formally moving ahead with the development and fielding of a powered exoskeleton to help soldiers move faster and carry more while reducing overall fatigue after y...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia’s Got Dogfighting Drones, Too—Just How Smart Are They?
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Russian industry is developing a new, low-cost drone that could function as an autonomous wingman for human pilots. But it’s unclear how much the developers at drone-maker K...
By Samuel Bendett
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CyberBoat-330 Is A Surprising Russia-Iran Collaboration On A Robot For Shallow Seas
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Great swaths of the Caspian Sea are shallow waters, too small for vessels with a deep draft to navigate or patrol. Bordered by Russia on the north and Iran on the south, the c...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia is talking about giving its stealthy 'Hunter' drone an air-to-air combat mission as a long-range interceptor
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Russia is considering giving the stealthy Okhotnik (Hunter) combat drone an air-to-air combat mission as a long-range interceptor, Russian state media reported this week. The...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russian Robot Helicopter Could Do More Than Search And Rescue
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For people who get lost at sea off Russian coasts, rescue may come in the form of a robot helicopter. Set for display at the upcoming Army 2020 Military Technology Exposition...
By Samuel Bendett
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Inside the Wild Finale of DARPA’s Simulated Drone Dogfights
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U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael Tremel was in the cockpit of his Super Hornet fighter soaring 20,000 feet over war-torn Syria on June 18, 2017, when he detected a warplane heading...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Prepares Robot Tank For Fighting Drones
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What if the answer to swarms of drones is just a really big gun? Russia’s Derivatsiya-PVO is formally a kind of self-propelled artillery tasked with an anti-air mission. In ef...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia Working On Directed Energy Weapon
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Since humans have bent electricity to war, there has been a hunt for a special weapon that renders the technology particularly useless. Lurking in the annals of weapon design,...
By Samuel Bendett
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Don’t Panic, But Russia Is Training Its Robot Tanks To Understand Human Speech
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Russian scientists are teaching a robotic tank to understand spoken orders from a human commander. The Kremlin’s Advanced Research Foundation—Russia’s answer to the U.S. Defe...
By Samuel Bendett
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New Russian Robot Will Shoot Naval Mines With A Gun
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The last thing a naval mine expects is to be shot by an underwater robot holding a pistol. Naval mines are expectant machines, terrible potential floating below the surface. W...
By Samuel Bendett
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The Weird And Worrying Drone War In The Caucasus
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A forgotten war is gaining new momentum in the Caucasus, as opponents arm themselves with increasingly advanced drone technology for spying and strikes. The alarming implicati...
By Samuel Bendett
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The Arctic Eats Helicopters, So Russia Is Sending Drones Instead
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Russian defense firm Rostec is partnering with a small Latvian startup to make tiltrotor drones for dangerous Arctic operations. Think of it as a tiny, robotic, cold-weather ...
By Samuel Bendett
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How Much Does It Cost To Insure A Russian-Made Stealth Drone?
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The Russian defense ministry has insured its new stealth drone and its control station for 1.4 billion rubles. That’s $20 million. And it’s probably worth every ruble. The S-...
By Samuel Bendett
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The Turks Shot Down A Russian Bomber In 2015. Now Russia’s Buying New Planes That Can Defend Themselves
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The Russian air force is buying new Su-34 fighter-bombers. The two-seat, twin-engine warplanes will replace aging Su-24 bombers—one of which the Turkish air force shot down ne...
By Samuel Bendett
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New Russian Robot Can Climb Stairs And Blow Up Bombs
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The Syrian civil war is nearly a decade-long tragedy, a geopolitical mess, and a proving ground for Russian military technology. Among that technology is a new iteration of th...
By Samuel Bendett
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Robots Will Replace Soldiers In Combat, Says Russia
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For Russia, the question of robots taking over the role of soldiers on the battlefield is a matter of when, not if. “Living fighters will gradually begin to be replaced by the...
By Samuel Bendett
