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Ukraine Skillfully Used Drones, Jammers to Break Into Kursk: Russian ObserversDefense Post | 15 Aug 2024
Samuel Bendett said, “it is no surprise that Ukraine would be using such an approach, considering its huge investment in electronic warfare.”
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Ukrainian Drone Tactics Make their Way to Kursk region, Russian Military Bloggers SuggestCBC | 14 Aug 2024
Samuel Bendett said, “It does seem plausible” regarding some outside observers view the recent gains made by Ukraine are due to Ukrainian forces skillfully using drones and jammers to limit Russia's defenses and break into Kurs.
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Putin the ResilientForeign Affairs | 14 Aug 2024
Julian Waller writes, “Russia is not invincible, and its political order is not eternal. Instability is a constant possibility, especially when the regime eventually selects a successor to Putin. Still, the Kremlin’s performance since 2022 has demonstrated a vast capacity for adjustment and resilience in the face of internal tensions.”
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Russian Drones Could Win This War, If Entrenched Bureaucracy Lets ThemForbes | 13 Aug 2024
Samuel Bendett said, “it would be a mistake to see Russia’s drone industry as a failure, and that Russian drones may decide the war — if they can overcome major obstacles.”
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Why Can't the Russian Army Expel the Enemy from its Territory?Voice of America | 13 Aug 2024
Michael Peterson explains, “It’s unclear whether Moscow didn’t see this coming, or whether it saw the redeployment of Ukrainian troops and concluded that they didn’t pose a critical threat. In addition, the Ukrainian army appears to have been initially fighting border guards and poorly trained and inexperienced conscripts.”
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The 300 Drones that Are Fighting off RussiaIrish Examiner | 12 Aug 2024
Samuel Bendett said, “When combined with newly developed antenna technology, the range of a Ukrainian exploding drone is 25km, double that of early models."
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Cheap First-person-view Drones Now Hunting Larger Prey in UkraineDefense News | 08 Aug 2024
Samuel Bendett said, “There were numerous attempts of Ukrainian FPVs trying to chase Russian helicopters before, but all such attacks were near misses. It’s difficult to pilot an FPV drone towards a military helicopter flying at high speeds.”
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Ukraine’s Drone Pilots Take Aim at Russia’s Oil IndustryiNews.co.uk | 24 Jul 2024
Samuel Bendett said, “[The strikes are] evidence that Ukraine has studied Russian air defenses and can now develop tactics to identify weak coverage areas and gaps, to concentrate drone attacks on certain areas, and take advantage of the fact that many key Russian facilities do not have adequate defensive capabilities against such long-range drone strikes.”
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Is Russia Overtaking Ukraine In Drone Production?Forbes | 01 Jul 2024
Samuel Bendett notes, “Part of the official resistance to such purely commercial products had to do with these drones’ inability to withstand electronic warfare and other countermeasures as purely commercial products.”
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Russia’s Losing In Long-Predicted Space War 1 To The WestForbes | 26 Jun 2024
CNA scholars, after scouring treatises and orders issued across the Russian military sphere, reported that “controlling access to space‑based information is seen as conferring enormous advantage in terms of … enhanced warfighting capability.”
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Putin's AI doctrine seeks semi-automated military as Moscow could look to China for help, expert saysFox News | 21 Jun 2024
Samuel Bendett said, "Russian futurists, Russian technologists, Russian developers are envisioning this slow evolution away from larger human involvement to where humans are going to be involved as little as possible.”
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Robot craze in Russia-Ukraine war shines light on their drawbacksDefense News | 17 Jun 2024
According to Samuel Bendett, “Prior to its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military was one of the global leaders in UGV research, development and evaluation. It developed multiple types and started trialing them, but did so in a very limited format.”
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Congressman Mike Waltz, Early-Onset Cancer, Juneteenth, EatonvilleNPR | 13 Jun 2024
“Dmitry Gorenburg is a Senior Research Scientist in the Russia Studies Program of CNA, a Washington based nonprofit for research and analysis. He discusses the purpose of the exercises.”
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Is Putin Too Old to Rule Russia?Russian Matters | 12 Jun 2024
Dr. Dmitry Gorenburg cautioned against jumping to the conclusion that aging ruling elites necessarily lead to poor governance outcomes, “Aging leaders are on average less flexible and have more difficulty adapting to new ideas or circumstances. For Russia, the obvious example is the Brezhnev period of the Soviet Union, when there was little ability to adapt to shifting circumstances.”
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Inside Ukraine, startups try to edge Russia in the electronic warfare raceBreaking Defense | 10 Jun 2024
Samuel Bendett said, “One challenge is that Russia is getting to see firsthand how this technology is used, and is incorporating those lessons almost as quickly as the Ukrainians can scrap their way to another idea.”
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Cannons and machine guns are being tested as drone-killers in 2 warsBusiness Insider | 03 Jun 2024
Samuel Bendett, an expert in unmanned and robotic military systems at the Center for Naval Analyses, said, "I think the Israelis are likely seeing what does and does not work in Ukraine — the key is to create an effective and relatively cheap defense against incoming drones, and Ukrainians are one of the leading developers in that area right now."