Russian war bloggers are watching the US' new LUCAS drones — and fretting about Starshield terminals

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A Low-Cost Unmanned Aircraft System lifts off with jet propulsion from a ship's deck.
A Low-Cost Unmanned Aircraft System takes off in December from a US Independence-class littoral combat ship.

U.S. Army photo by Spc. Kayla McGuire

Videos show how Ukrainian helicopter crews use machine guns to hunt Russia's exploding Shahed drones

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Thermal imagery from a gun camera aimed at a delta-wing drone.
Thermal camera footage shows the Ukrainian helicopter crew firing at a delta-wing drone.

Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine via Twitter

Ukraine says its homegrown Flamingo missiles flew nearly 900 miles to strike an Iskander factory deep inside Russia

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A Tomahawk missile is seen mounted on a factory platform.
Ukraine has been touting the Flamingo as an alternative or complement to the long-range Tomahawk.

Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo

Ukraine is using powerful quadcopters to destroy nearly a third of all the Russian air threats it hits, commander says

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Ukrainian interceptor drones sit on a shelf.
Ukrainian interceptor drones are often propeller-driven.

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Drone maker Shield Al says putting bombs on everything isn't necessary if you know how to fight a modern war

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Brandon Tseng, president and cofounder of Shield AI, speaks in an interview.
Tseng said Shield AI is working on putting weapons on the V-BAT, but that the world's best militaries know they don't need bombs on the drone.

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A Ukrainian drone pilot found a hidden Russian arsenal, only to discover it was filled with horses and old cars

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Three Lada off-road vehicles can be seen in front of two horses.
Cosmos' drone flew inside a warehouse to spot two horses, several Lada vehicles, and two motorbikes.

82nd Air Assault Brigade

Ukrainian forces say Russian troops paid them for a fake Starlink service that instead revealed battlefield locations

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A Starlink terminal sits near a playground.
A recent block aimed at cutting off Russian Starlink access has prompted a slew of reports that the Kremlin's soldiers are approaching Ukrainians for help registering their terminals.

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Kyiv says Russian troops need Starlink so badly they're trying to get Ukrainians to register terminals for them

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A Starlink terminal is seen on the ground in Pokrovsk.
SpaceX has cut off Starlink access in Ukraine, allowing only terminals on a Ukrainian "whitelist" to connect to the service.

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Power banks, body warmers, and antifreeze: Ukrainian troops tell us how they survive deep winter out in the trenches

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Two Ukrainian soldiers hold rifles as they walk along a trench line in Kharkiv.
Ukrainian soldiers walk along a trench in Kharkiv.

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Saab is looking to arm its Gripen fighter jets with a proven drone-killing rocket after studying the Ukraine war

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Saab JAS-39C Gripen flies during an airshow.
Saab is looking at adding the APKWS as a weapons option for the Gripen C, pictured here, and Gripen E.

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