Such an imbalance may cost Kiev and its Western allies dearly, the paper warns The fact that the smaller kamikaze drones used by Russia are much cheaper than the Ukrainian air defense missiles used against them is creating problems for Kiev and its Western backers, the New York Times has acknowledged. In an article on … Read more
Workers remove debris of a destroyed building, purported to be a vocational college used as temporary accommodation for Russian soldiers, 63 of whom were killed in a Ukrainian missile strike, as stated the previous day by Russia’s Defence Ministry, in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Makiivka (Makeyevka), Russian-controlled Ukraine, on January 3, 2023. | … Read more
Drones, missiles and artillery shells launched by Russian forces also struck areas across Ukraine. File | Photo Credit: AP Russia deployed multiple exploding drones in another nighttime attack on Ukraine, officials said on Monday, as the Kremlin signalled no let up in its strategy of using bombardments to target civilian infrastructure and wear down Ukrainian … Read more
Washington CNN — The US Treasury Department on Tuesday unveiled additional sanctions on the entities involved in the production and transfer of Iranian drones to Russia. The sanctions target several aviation related companies and two individuals – Abbas Djuma and Tigran Khristoforovich Srabionov – who facilitated the Russian mercenary Wagner Group’s “acquisition of UAVs from … Read more
Taiwan displayed its self-developed drone technology Tuesday, amid rising concerns over China’s threats to use force to assert its claim to the self-governing island republic. The National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, which develops military technology, offered a rare look at the Jian Xiang drone designed to destroy enemy radars, and other unmanned combat … Read more
The US may provide Kiev with Gray Eagle MQ-1Cs refurbished in a way to avoid disclosing American tech secrets The US is looking into a possible modification of its state-of-the-art drones so that they could be sent to Ukraine, CNN reported on Monday, citing sources. Earlier, US media reported that Washington had refused to provide … Read more
US officials are reportedly concerned that Gray Eagle MQ-1C deliveries may add fuel to the conflict The administration of US President Joe Biden has rebuffed Kiev’s requests to provide it with state-of-the-art drones over concerns that doing so could escalate the Ukraine conflict, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing sources. According to US … Read more
A Ukrainian artilleryman fires a howitzer at a position on the front line near Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, on Oct. 31. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images A Ukrainian artilleryman fires a howitzer at a position on the front line near Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, on Oct. … Read more
Iran has acknowledged providing military drones to Russia for the first time, though they claim the shipments were sent before the invasion of Ukraine. Source link
Tehran acknowledges it had provided Moscow with a “small number” of UAVs but denies ever supplying missiles Iran has for the first time acknowledged it handed over military drones to Russia, claiming, however, that the shipments were completed before the Ukraine conflict broke out in late February. Tehran at the same time denied claims that … Read more