Russia’s war against Ukraine has turned unmanned aircraft from a supporting capability into one of the central elements of modern battlefield operations. It has also forced drone manufacturers to confront a problem that peacetime testing cannot fully reproduce: how to keep an aircraft useful when tactics, electronic warfare threats and operational requirements can change within […]

Civilians and infrastructure on NATO’s eastern flank faced near-daily Russian drone incidents through August, even as the CIA director made a rare visit to Moscow to warn Russia against attacking a NATO member state, according to Cristian Vlas, an Eastern Europe analyst at the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). CIA Director John […]