Tag Archives: Ukraine

The Dubious Prospects for Cargo-Delivery Drones in Ukraine

As Russian forces besieged Mariupol in recent months, some observers called for using drones to resupply Ukrainian forces and deliver humanitarian aid. I understand the appeal of humanitarian delivery-by-drone as well as anybody. In 2014, I founded and led an effort to swarm cargo into besieged parts of Syria. Later, …

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China drone giant grounds Russia, Ukraine sales

In the latest move in China’s delicate balancing act over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Chinese drone maker DJI has suspended its operations in both warring nations. The Shenzhen-based company is the world’s largest drone manufacturer. This move makes DJI the first major Chinese company to stop business in both countries …

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Drones Could Help Ukraine Level the Playing Field in the Don…

Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region is flat, open, and streaked with cloudy skies, terrain that Western officials believe has already limited Russia from carrying out the withering air and missile strikes that characterized the first two months of the war in Ukraine. And as the battlefield shifts east, drones are becoming …

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AeroVironment Donates Over 100 Quantix Recon UAS to Ukraine

ARLINGTON, Va., April 19, 2022 – AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) a global leader in intelligent, multi-domain robotic systems, today announced it will donate more than 100 Quantix™ Recon unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and operational training services to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and territorial forces amid the …

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US Military Sends Another 600 Switchblade Drones to Ukraine

The US military is sending some more than 700 AeroVironment Switchblade drones to help Ukrainian military. AeroVironment This story is part of War in Ukraine, CNET’s coverage of events there and of the wider effects on the world. The United States has sent 600 more AeroVironment Switchblade drones to help …

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Puzzling Out the Drone War Over Ukraine

The midtown Manhattan “wiretap nest,” as the 55th Street listening post came to be known, remains one of the largest and most elaborate private eavesdropping operations ever uncovered in the United States. Subscribers whose phones were tapped at the time of the raid included a range of New York commercial …

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How the War in Ukraine Is Changing the Technology Landscape

The last few years have been one heck of roller coaster ride. The pandemic and the recent war between Ukraine and Russia bracket the events for now, but suddenly a lot of companies are rethinking aggressively global resourcing and divesting manufacturing as bad ideas. The result is some interesting dynamics …

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Modern Tokyo Times | Ukraine Buys Advanced Turkish Strike Dr…

Ukraine Buys Advanced Turkish Strike Drones Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor By: Yuri Lapaiev The Jamestown Foundation On January 26, Ukrainian State Concern Ukroboronprom announced an agreement between the Turkish company Baykar Makina and Ukraine’s state-owned arms trader Ukrspecexport (part of Ukroboronprom) to procure 12 Bayraktar TB2 operational/tactical-level strike unmanned aerial …

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