Russia, Ukraine and drones
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Like so many conflicts before it, the Russo-Ukraine war has forced both sides to innovate. Since they have been able to gain control of opposition air space, neither side has made wide use of traditional air assets such as fast fighter jets,
Big Brother Watch warns UK local authorities are creating 'spies in the sky' as councils rapidly expand drone fleets for law enforcement in an already surveilled nation.
The U.S. Army is updating its forces with 1 million drones a year, expanding its arsenal of unmanned weapons, and training its troops to use them.
Russia's turbojet Geran-3s are much faster than the usual Shaheds, but Ukrainians that their cheap interceptors took several down for the first time.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and ICE have not answered whether the drones belong to them.
New police logs contradict an official UFO dismissal after a U.K. helicopter crew reported an emergency dive to avoid a mysterious craft over a U.S. military base in Suffolk.