Inside the Drone War Arms Race in Ukraine

Geopolitics Decanted by Silverado

Oct 22, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 68

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Episode description

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Andrey Liscovich (UkraineDefenseFund.org) about the latest updates in the evolution of drone warfare on the battlefields in Ukraine.

They discuss:

- How Ground Unmanned Vehicles (GUVs) are being used in battle

- 3rd Generation FPV drones

- Quadcopter bombers

- Mass-market EW systems

- Fiber optics C2

- EW recon units

- Use of aerial drones for anti-drone/aircraft warfare

- Impact of Chinese export controls

- Thermite 'Dracarys' drones

- Mothership drones

- Long-range deep strike drones

- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance drones

- How Starlink is giving Russia an advantage!

- How commercial satellite imagery of Ukrainian lands may be playing into Russia's hands

- Why the US and Ukrainian use-cases for drone warfare are so dramatically different

- Introduction of autonomy in unmanned systems

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