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fromBusiness Insider
6 days ago

The US is getting serious about cheap, one-way attack drones with a new force in the Middle East

The US has deployed a squadron of low-cost, one-way LUCAS attack drones resembling Iranian Shahed loitering munitions to the Middle East.
fromBusiness Insider
3 months ago

Ukraine's new interceptor drones destroyed 150 of Russia's long-range UAVs in a single night, Zelenskyy says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that his country's interceptor drones struck 150 Russian long-range attack and decoy drones in a single night. In his regular public address, Zelenskyy said Russia had launched a total of 810 drones in one wave, including over 400 Shahed loitering munitions. His tally indicates that nearly a fifth of the drone wave was downed that evening by interceptor drones - an emerging low-cost air defense that Ukraine is rushing to produce at scale.
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fromBusiness Insider
3 months ago

Satellite images show Russia's got a new front-line drone launch site that cuts Ukraine's reaction time but puts the base at risk

Russia installed drone launch rails and storage at the destroyed Donetsk airport near the front, shortening Kyiv’s response time while increasing strike vulnerability.
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