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Russia has been mounting Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite systems on its attack drones to strike deeper into Ukraine, extending their potential flight range to well inside NATO territory, analysts and Ukrainian officials have said.
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US Army fires its newest drone-killer gun in 1st live test
The United States Army has taken a visible step in the race to counter cheap, ubiquitous drones, firing its newest drone-killer gun in a live exercise that paired traditional air-defense weapons with software-driven targeting.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is switching off Starlink systems on Russian killer drones after learning Moscow hijacked his satellite technology to strike Ukrainian cities, Kyiv’s defense minister said Thursday.
A heavy Russian drone bombardment of Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa killed at least three people and injured 23, including two children and a pregnant woman, officials said Tuesday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for faster US efforts to end Russia’s almost four-year-old invasion of his country.
The Odesa attack involved more than 50 drones, some of them models recently upgraded by Russia to improve their range and strike power, according to Ukrainian authorities.
US ICE agents will be deployed to Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, as American officials say that killer drones could threaten the games. Director of the US major events security Tim Ayers called
The last time American troops would have seen Iran’s kamikaze drones was when they were attacking US military bases in the Middle East. But US soldiers are now being armed with them. Or at least, with something almost identical to the Shahed drones.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has insisted that his country will not accept Russia’s ultimatums. He kept saying that the peace talks meeting between the USA and Russia was held behind Ukraine’s back.