#drone-warfare

#drone-warfare

From Kursk, North Korean units are using drones to conduct aerial reconnaissance missions over the neighboring Sumy region in Ukraine, identifying troop positions and supporting Russian follow-on strikes against identified targets, Kyiv said. Ukraine has "intercepted communications between North Korean drone operators and personnel of the Russian army," Kyiv shared in a statement published to the Telegram messaging app. It said that North Korean drone operators "adjusted the fire of multiple launch rocket systems against Ukrainian positions."

Every day I see cars that ran out of fuel and were left on the curb, Ayder, a resident of Simferopol, Crimea's administrative capital, told Al Jazeera. His car runs on natural gas, which is more available these days. There are long lines and fistfights at gas stations after a limit of 20 litres (5.3 gallons) per car was introduced, he said, withholding his last name out of fear of punishment for talking to foreign media.

My first strike was January 28th, 2013, at 6:49 in the morning. It ended up being a cave in the middle of nowhere, and there was a handful of people there that they wanted us to take out.

We also mourn the Ukrainian woman, Iryna Zarutska. She was brutally killed with a knife here in America, the very country where she was seeking refuge from Russia's war. And almost every day, when we open the news, we see headlines about violent attacks happening all around the world. Most of it is done with weapons. People are already used to it.

Here are the key events on day 1,296 of Russia's war on Ukraine. Here is how things stand on Friday, September 12: Anti-aircraft units downed seven Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow early on Friday, according to the Russian capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Russian forces have taken control of the settlement of Sosnivka in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, Russia's Defence Ministry said on Thursday.

Russian drone attacks and shelling killed three people and injured five others in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor Serhiy Lysak wrote on Telegram. Two people were killed in Russian attacks on the Polohivskyi district, as Russian forces launched 578 attacks on 18 settlements in Ukraine's Zaporizhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov said. Separate Russian attacks also killed one person in Kherson, one person in the Kyiv region and one person in Donetsk, local officials reported, according to the Kyiv Independent news outlet.

US Army soldiers are tearing apart drones, printing out new parts, and flying their own creations into live-fire drills - a crash-course in the messy, fast-paced world of drone warfare. The Army has launched a sweeping push to weave drones into combat across the force. For now, that work can look improvised and experimental, with soldiers moving quickly and sharing feedback as they go. In line with the Army's significant transformation initiative, over the past nine months, the Bayonet Innovation Team of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, part of the Army's Southern European Task Force, Africa, has been building, flying, and reconfiguring drones. In exercises in Lithuania, Tunisia, and Germany, the brigade used first-person view drones to strike static and moving targets, 3D-printed parts to test new designs, and artificial intelligence-enabled software to refine tactics.

In Ukraine, low-cost drones have upended the battlefield - spotting enemy troops, foiling maneuvers, and wrecking tanks with gear sometimes worth just a few hundred dollars. Russia and Ukraine are both betting big on this inexpensive technology. Ukraine said that it made 2.2 million drones last year and aims to make 4 million this year, and Russian President Vladimir Putin said in April that Russia made more than 1.5 million drones last year. And there are plans to expand that.

The Ukrainian military said on Thursday that it carried out a drone strike on a Russian warship capable of launching cruise missiles, marking the latest attack on Moscow's wounded navy. Ukraine's military intelligence agency, the HUR, said in a statement that it targeted a Buyan-M-class (or Project 21631) corvette operating in the Sea of Azov, a body of water that separates Russia from occupied Ukraine.

Earlier this month at a training exercise, 1st Lt. Francesco La Torre from the 173rd Airborne Brigade flew a first-person view drone carrying a Claymore mine into a fixed-wing uncrewed aerial vehicle, according to a new Army press release. La Torre piloted the drone towards the UAS as another member of his team armed and detonated the payload. Then La Torre looked up from his end-user device (EUD) and saw the fixed-wing drone fall out of the sky.

Every meeting, every minute this meeting continues is a great thing towards peace, right? However, my initial take is that Putin's word can never be trusted.

On a fine day in early June, Ukrainian soldiers launched their latest killer robot. With a click on a screen, the unattractively named Gogol-M, a fixed-wing aerial drone with a 20-foot wingspan, took off from an undisclosed location and soared into a wide blue sky.