Russian drones kill at least 12 in Dnipro
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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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Elon Musk blocks Russian killer drones from hijacking Starlink to hit cities
Elon Musk is moving to cut off Russian killer drones from the same satellite network that has helped keep Ukraine online since the first days of the full-scale invasion. After evidence that Russian forces were mounting Starlink terminals on long‑range attack drones to hit cities and infrastructure,
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
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Inside the cruel plan to fool young Latinas seeking travel into making killer drones in Russia
Young women from a dozen Latin American countries came to Russia seeking travel and opportunity with plans to break into the hospitality industry through a work exchange – and ended up manufacturing “kamikaze” drones used in Moscow’s war with Ukraine.
Given the massive scale of Russian and Chinese strike drone production, the U.S. needs more interceptors in the price range of Sting and Surveyor to exceed strike drones in number and to enable spreading interceptors out geographically for broader protection. Even then, affordable interceptors alone won’t cut it.
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.
The software and hardware that will control tomorrow's combat drones got a workout on January 18, as a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger showed off its capability by autonomously intercepting a crewed aggressor aircraft in an air combat exercise.
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Russian drones kill 12 as Vladimir Putin violates Trump's temporary winter truce
At least 12 people were killed in a Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, even after President Trump announced a temporary truce