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CNN's Nick Paton Walsh survived 14 Russian drone attacks on a five-hour walk along Ukraine's 'Road of Life,' validating DroneXL's Donbas kill zone reporting.
The kill zone on Ukraine’s eastern front has pushed out to roughly 15 kilometers from the line of contact. At that distance, sending infantry forward isn’t a tactical decision anymore — it’s a casualty guarantee. Ukraine’s answer, confirmed this week in a BBC report by Russia editor Vitaly Shevchenko titled “Armed robots take to the…
And so the battle begins. DJI just sued the FCC. And while that sounds dramatic and exciting, let’s slow down and come back to reality for just a minute. There’s a lot of noise around this lawsuit right now. My goal today isn’t to get you all fired up — it’s to get you informed.…
The timing of this essay says as much as the content. Published today by West Point’s Modern War Institute, retired General James Mingus and Lieutenant Colonel Maggie Harris lay out what readers of this site have watched unfold in real time for three years: drones and ground robots are rewriting how wars are fought and…
The Financial Times sent reporters into eastern Ukraine and came back with a term that every military planner should memorize: the “kill zone.” It is the strip of land closest to the front lines where anything that moves, on wheels, on foot, or on treads, gets targeted and destroyed by first-person-view drones. We have been…
We’ve been tracking Ukraine’s drone revolution for years, but the latest report from Dutch broadcaster NOS reveals a stunning shift: ground-based robots have quietly become the backbone of frontline survival. The 21st Regiment of Unmanned Systems now delivers 90% of all supplies to forward positions using wheeled drones, a transformation born from brutal necessity. The…
For Ukraine, that is dangerous. Drones are often the first warning that Russian troops or armored vehicles are on the move. When that early warning
German mobility systems provider DEUTZ is becoming the lead investor in defense technology company ARX Robotics' strategic funding round
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