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Kim Jong Un has ordered the mass production of attack drones, North Korean media reported.The move comes after the country ratified a mutual defense treaty with Russia.A Ukrainian official told BI that North Korean troops are getting Russian training on drone warfare. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the…
Two US Navy destroyers came under attack by the Houthis on Monday.The Iran-backed rebels fired a mix of anti-ship missiles and exploding drones.The US military defeated all the threats, a Pentagon spokesperson said. The US Navy defeated a complex attack launched by the Houthis on Monday that saw the rebels…
New satellite imagery shows how Russia has continued to add defenses to protect the Kerch Bridge.Russia has placed additional barriers nearby to protect it from Ukraine’s naval drones.It also built two towers for air-defense systems to defend the prized bridge from other threats. New satellite imagery shows how Russia has…
Ukraine has used long-range drones to strike multiple ammunition depots inside Russia this month.These attacks have caused extensive damage and resulted in the loss of valuable weaponry.Russia has been unable to stop these attacks despite operating an extensive air-defense network. Russia maintains an extensive air-defense network, but it hasn’t been…
Ukraine said it carried out a drone attack on a Russian ammunition depot over the weekend.Kyiv said Iranian missiles had arrived at the site shortly before the attack.Russia received a number of short-range ballistic missiles from Iran earlier this month. Ukrainian forces used long-range drones to strike an ammunition depot…
Russia equipped its deadly attack drones with cellphone parts to help improve their targeting capabilities, a war expert noted in a new report.Jack Watling, a senior research fellow and a land warfare expert at the UK-based Royal United Services Institute think tank, highlighted in a report last week that Russia…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A dozen Republican U.S. lawmakers urged the Biden administration on Friday to address the use of Chinese-manufactured agriculture drones, saying their use on American farms poses national security risks. The House members, including Representatives Elise Stefanik, Ashley Hinson and John Moolenaar, who chairs a select…
Ukrainian forces appear to be increasingly using drones to rain a fire-like substance down on Russian troop positions in the tree lines, newly released combat footage shows.Multiple Ukrainian units have shared videos this week of their drones dispersing an incendiary material identified as molten thermite, which is essentially tiny pieces…
Russia’s using newer drones guided by fiber-optic cables that make them immune to the kind of signal jamming and electronic warfare that’s plagued both sides’ use of unmanned systems.The latest adaptation in unmanned warfare isn’t necessarily an end-all game changer, though. Rather, the wired drones are most likely just another…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram that Russia’s attack overnight and on Monday involved “more than a hundred missiles of various types and about a hundred Shahed drones.”The attack was the largest one in weeks, Reuters reported, with the prime minister saying more than half of the country’s regions…
