A DIY copter made in Yemen from sticks and a simple motor. Talk about drone proliferation - this is about as simple as it gets. t.me/droneswar/4521
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Samuel Bendett
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Samuel Bendett
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Analysis of military robotics, drones/UAVs, AI and Russian military weapons development. CNA, CNAS and CSIS.
Opinions my own. @sambendett.bsky.social
Joined October 2010
- 1/ "Drones made of plastic foam or plastic are harder to find on radar. Ukraine buys them from commercial suppliers, along with parts such as radios, cameras, antennas and motors. The drone units mix and match parts until they find combinations that can fly past sophisticated
- 1/3 Ukraine's Robert "Magyar" Brovdi, talking with The Economist: During the next 6-8 months, humans will no longer be needed to control drones in Ukraine - the war will become truly unmanned. The evolution of such technologies will...
- 1/ QUICK TAKE - Russians are worried that Ukrainian military is targeting their fixed-wing ISR drones: "This is an extremely alarming development. While people do not directly die from such actions, the consequences may be more serious than from the delivery of dozens of Abrams
- This looks like a real photo - a Russian MBT has piled "everything" for EW protection against drones - "antennas in the 800/900/2.4/5.8 MHz and GHz ranges, added blocks for the 700-1000 bands, plus a generator and battery." t.me/dva_majors/391…
- 1/ This is an interesting thread from a Ukrainian soldiers going through Western military training in Germany. Key points that stand out: "They do not rely on electronic devices at all, and the fact that we go on missions with Chinese smartphones and tablets was wild for them."Тред про навчання в Німеччині. Частина 2 Так я був у взводі розвідки, навчали нас американські рейнджери. Програма була націлена саме на розвідку. Було три основних інструктор, ось такі мордовороти. Вони втрьох були однаково квадратними.
- Chinese “version” of what happened with its balloon over US territory t.me/dronesrussia/2…
00:00 - 1/ Russian Telegram channels are reporting a large-scale Ukrainian UAV strike on Crimea overnight - "five UAV groups (32 UAVs total) from the Shkolny airfield in Odessa took off in several directions to targets - Russian air defense units destroyed 17 drones and..."
- 1/2 From Russian Telegrams: Ukrainians' use of large, heavy agricultural quadcopter/multirotor drones is a major threat to the Russian military. Dubbed "Baba Yaga" (an ogress in Slavic folklore) by the Russians, such drones can carry up to 50kg of bombs. t.me/FilatovCorr/14…
- 1/ QUICK TAKE by Rus mil bloggers on the technical aspects of today's Ukrainian drone strike: "FPV control was carried out via mobile networks (4G, LTE and the like). The bandwidth of modern mobile networks is more than enough to perform such tasks."🔴 34% of strategic cruise missile carriers at the main airfields of the Russia were hit as a result of today's operation, according to the Security Service of Ukraine. The losses are estimated at approximately $7 billion.
00:00t.meZa Родину VместеЭтого всего можно было избежать - если бы своевременно отключили мобильный интернет ❗ Теперь по сегодняшнему обсеру с технической точки зрения: 1. Управление FPV осуществлялось через мобильные сети... - Pro-Kremlin Telegram: "Recently, the Ukrainian military buyers have bought up almost the entire market of FPV components in China - for around 50-100,000 quadcopter units. They already trained more than a 1000 FPV operators. They turn these drones into kamikazes with a grenade
- 1/ Good @thewarzonewire summary of today's unmanned strike on Sevastopol. This will no doubt be analyzed by the Russian MOD and the use of maritime military autonomy will once again be debated as essential to Russia's warfighting capability. But... thedrive.com/the-war-zone/u…
- 1/ SHORT THREAD: An update on the Russian drone operations we have seen 18 days into this war. Earlier, Russian advance lacked ISR/combat UAV that were part of their regular CONOPS/TTPs as defined by training, exercises, and military deployments to Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh.
- 1/ Russian Telegram channels are discussing a new Ukrainian air defense suppression tactic: Russian aviation launched guided bombs/missiles from a safe distance, forcing Ukr. military to position air defense systems closer to the front line to shoot them down. Then...
