Tag: Drones
Iran-Israel drone attack LIVE: Israel strikes target in east Lebanon after it vowed to respond to the 300 drones and missiles sent by Iran in unprecedented attack
Advertisement
Battling Under a Canopy of Russian and Ukrainian Drones
Members of Ukraine’s 1st Separate Assault Battalion describe themselves as firemen. Their job is to rapidly deploy to areas along the front that are in danger of collapse. Lately, their service has been in high demand: the front is burning. A large-scale counter-offensive last year failed to achieve meaningful victories, and since then Russia has been on the attack. One of its priorities appears to be Kupyansk, a city in northeastern Ukraine, some twenty miles from the Russian border. According
POLITICO Europe’s most-read stories of 2023 – POLITICO
Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year.
When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate neighborhood, as the slaughter drags on in Ukraine, and conflict rages between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
In Ukraine, the long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia, which
The Race to Amass the Most Drones Will Only Bring Us Closer to Nuclear War
October 18, 2023
With swarms of such devices battling other swarms, the risk of catastrophic defeat will loom ever larger, making the temptation to employ nuclear weapons that much harder to resist.
A US Navy drone approaches the deck of nuclear the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush off the coast of Virginia on July 10, 2013.
(Steve Helber / AP Photo)
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign
How drones are helping scientists find meteorites
Meteorites offer tantalizing clues about what the early solar system was like. But finding them is far from rocket science. Often, researchers simply fan out across a landscape and walk for hours while staring at the ground. Now, some scientists are turning to drones and machine learning to help spot freshly fallen meteorites much more efficiently.
A team of six people on a meteorite-hunting expedition can search about 200,000 square meters per day, says Seamus Anderson, a planetary scientist at
As Long as We Use Drones, Celebrating “American Values” Is a Farce
“I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are gray.”
That’s what a young Pakistani boy named Zubair told members of Congress at a hearing on drones in October 2013. That hearing was during the Obama years at a time when the government had barely even acknowledged that an American drone warfare program existed.
Two years earlier, however, a Muslim cleric, Anwar Al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son … Read more
With a return of Trump looming, Ukrainians ramp up homegrown arms industry – POLITICO
KYIV — Ukraine’s long-range Beaver drones seem to be making successful kamikaze strikes in the heart of Moscow, but Serhiy Prytula is coy about how much he knows.
“We are not sure whether we are involved in this,” he says with a charming but inscrutable smile, when asked about these mysterious new weapons.
Prytula rose to fame — just like President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — as an actor, TV star and comedian, but is now best known for his contribution to
Uncovering the secrets of one of WWII’s bloodiest battles: Archaeologists use drones to peer through the dense forest cover of the battlefield of the Battle of the Bulge – revealing previously unknown dugouts, bomb craters and artillery emplacements
Famously, the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944/45 was one of the largest and bloodiest armed conflict of the Second World War.
Taking place in densely forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg, it was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
Months after it ended in January 1945, the war came to a close, and for almost 80 years since the region has held its secrets under the trees
Putin could visit Erdoğan at end of August: Turkish media – POLITICO
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could visit his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the end of this month, Turkish media reported Monday, as Ankara seeks to revive the Black Sea grain deal.
Erdoğan’s Cabinet will meet Monday to discuss “Russian President Vladimir Putin’s possible visit to Turkey at the end of this month,” pro-government daily Hürriyet reported.
During Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Istanbul last month, the Turkish president announced Putin would travel to Turkey in August to discuss
Wave of missiles and drones pounds Ukraine, damages blood-transfusion center – POLITICO
KYIV — Russia hit Ukraine with a barrage of missiles and drones overnight, including a strike on a medical center that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy labeled a war crime.
The attack started Saturday evening and continued until the early hours of Sunday, Ukraine’s Air Force said in a statement Sunday morning.
Ukrainian air defense managed to shoot down 30 missiles and 27 drones, the Air Force said. But Ukrainian officials did not disclose any information about at least five missiles