Russia, Ukraine and drone strike
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Russian drones and missiles target Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv, killing 3, officials sayA large Russian drone-and-missile attack targeted Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv on Saturday, killing at least three people and injuring 21, local Ukrainian officials said. The Russian barrage — the latest in near daily widescale attacks by Moscow — included deadly aerial glide bombs that have become part of fierce Russian attacks in the three-year war.
Both sides are now using large numbers of attack drones controlled via fiber optic cables which are immune to radio jamming making them effectiveley unstoppable.
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How Ukraine’s Spider Web Drone Assault Upended Russia’s Air Power and Shook Global Defense DoctrineCheap drones destroyed a significant fraction of Russia’s nuclear-capable bomber force” a phrase that would have been the stuff of science fiction even a few years ago, but which now constitutes the reportage of the consequences of Ukraine’s Operation Spider Web,
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Why lessons from drone warfare in Ukraine could be key to defending Taiwan against ChinaDrones will be as key to Taiwan’s national security as they have been for Ukraine, a Taiwanese legislator told Euronews Next. The embattled country’s war efforts have boosted morale on the Asian island as it ramps up its own defences against the ...
The Pentagon notified Congress last week that it will be diverting critical anti-drone technology that had been allocated for Ukraine to US Air Force units in the Middle East, according to correspondence obtained by CNN and people familiar with the matter.
Technological advances have given threadbare militaries and rebel fighters the ability to strike stunning blows against far stronger forces.
On June 1, Ukraine targeted several Russian air bases using first-person view (FPV) drones, cheap aerial vehicles which are remotely operated by pilots using camera feeds. According to reports, Ukraine used machine-learning algorithms to guide the drones to the target area.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Donald Trump in a phone call Wednesday that he was obligated to respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack, Trump said, setting up a potential escalation in the conflict just as the US president hopes to broker an end to the war.