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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 10h

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 10h

www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...

Pink Missiles: How Ukraine’s Female Warriors Are Trolling Russia

A batch of bright pink interceptor drones delivered to a female unit are the latest example of Ukraine's woman making their presence visible on the battlefield.

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 2d

Mud, Not Missiles: The Real Threat to Unmanned Ground Vehicles overlandai.substack.com/p/mud-not-mi...

Mud, Not Missiles: The Real Threat to Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Byron Boots, Co-Founder and CEO | October 9, 2025

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 2d

Rus mil blogger on the field hazard of mice that chew through and damage all kinds of video and comms cables on the frontlines, as well as batteries and even UAVs as well: "We tried everything and nothing works against them" t.me/rumilornitho...

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 2d

While US and China are leading the #AI race, many smaller countries are also in the mix, on their own terms and with their own small budgets. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Governments are spending billions on their own ‘sovereign’ AI technologies – is it a big waste of money?

Many US-built AI systems fall short but competing against tech giants neither easy nor cheap

www.theguardian.com

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks - good to know!

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 3d

@faineg.bsky.social - what’s happening??

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 3d

Ukraine will get 150 THeMIS UGVs www.kyivpost.com/post/61644

Ukraine to Receive Over 150 THeMIS Combat Robots From the Netherlands and Estonia

The delivery of 150 THeMIS vehicles will take place under a donation program funded and coordinated by the Netherlands.

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 3d

You are way from this platform for a few days and then this… unherd.com/newsroom/blu...

Bluesky civil war shows free speech is harder than it looks

Last week, a joke familiar from X circulated on rival platform Bluesky: “(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??” It was obviously a jab at the moral intensity that now seems...

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 4d

www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/how-r...

How Russia Recovered

What the Kremlin is learning from the war in Ukraine.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 5d

euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/06/u...

Ukraine’s army breaks own R&D rules to stay alive

Ukraine's brigades do their own R&D, this keeps them ahead of Russia technologically, but outdated central leadership fails to capitalize

euromaidanpress.com

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 5d

“…Even in a war increasingly fought by robots, it can still be individual soldiers that prove vital to victory.” www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

Even in a drone war, one man and a rifle can make his mark

Surrounded for 50 days, sheltering in a basement saturated with the stench of death, the Ukrainian sergeant ‘Rus’ and his comrades picked off the enemy in a series of audacious ambushes

www.thetimes.com

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 7d

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

AI lets Russian war widows see their soldier husbands one more time

A trend has emerged in Russia of using artificial intelligence to create video memorials of the dead, often soldiers, giving a final farewell to their wives and children.

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 7d

www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

Israeli defense tech CEO highlights importance of soldiers on drone-heavy battlefields

Technological advances like unmanned aerial vehicles and artificial intelligence have changed modern combat, but ground troops are still crucial in warfare, according to the top executive from a key I...

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 7d

How UGVs work in Ukraine's "K-2" 20th separate regiment of unmanned systems www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wMc...

МАЛЕНЬКІ ПОМІЧНИКИ, ЩО БАГАТО ВИВОЗЯТЬ: що таке НРК і як вони працюють у «К-2»?

YouTube video by Телебачення Торонто

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 7d

Rus state media report (heavily edited) on Russian unmanned platforms during an engineering troop training session in the Volgograd Region. Courier UGV at 2:21, a light USV that carries an FPV around 4:27. t.me/boris_rozhin...

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Репортаж «России 1» посвящённый демонстрации возможностей различных российских беспилотных платформ в ходе сбора инженерных войск в Волгоградской области. Засветилась и версия НРТК "Курьер" с лазерной...

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 9d

Ukraine's Texty media on the gray zone in the war - an area that stretches 25-30 km, and as much as 40km, "a chaotic kill zone riddled with trenches, dugouts, mines and rubble, constantly monitored and hit by drones, with both sides using a wide range of weapons." texty.org.ua/projects/115...

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 9d

ABC news on USMC MCADT training in Quantico www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao9x...

Fight in flight: Closing the gap on a changing battlefield

YouTube video by ABC News

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 12d

Lviv-based company First Parsec has unveiled the pulsejet KROOK 1 deep strike drone – Ukraine’s answer to the Shahed thedefender.media/en/2025/09/f...

KROOK 1 deep strike drone – Ukraine’s answer to the Shahed

The pulsejet engine enables the Krook 1 drone to reach speeds of up to 400 km/h. Read more on Defender Media.

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 12d

breakingdefense.com/2025/09/us-c...

US CENTCOM standing up Rapid Employment Joint Task Force - Breaking Defense

“The new task force will synergize existing efforts among our service components and support Secretary Hegseth’s drive to rapidly equip our warriors," said CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper.

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 13d

How Hitler’s fear-inducing ‘flying bomb’ ushered in drone warfare www.militarytimes.com/veterans/mil...

How Hitler’s fear-inducing ‘flying bomb’ ushered in drone warfare

The V-1 "flying bomb" could accurately be described in today’s nomenclature as an unmanned aerial vehicle — moreover, as the first suicide drone.

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 14d

www.sandboxx.us/news/army-ma...

Sandboxx News | Military News with Meaning—Where Expertise Meets the Front Lines.

Sandboxx News makes the complex approachable. Bridging the gap between academic expertise and practical boots-on-the-ground experience, we remove the mystery from conflict and highlight the importance...

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 14d

Russia is dusting off the WW2-era M3 Scout and its own 1940s-1950s BTR-40 armored car concepts to create a light armored vehicle for assault, logistics and counter-drone ops. defence-blog.com/russia-devel...

Russia develops new Legioner armored vehicle

Russia has introduced a new light armored vehicle known as the “Legioner”, developed by the company Russkiye Boyevyye Mashiny (RBM). The 4x4 platform is intended to bridge the gap between unarmored mi...

defence-blog.com

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 14d

MILREM UGV in Ukraine youtu.be/csswLSf4glI?...

Russia Put A €100k Bounty On This Autonomous War Machine in Ukraine

YouTube video by Cheddar

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 15d

www.sofx.com/ukrainian-ma...

Ukrainian Magura Naval Drones Take Center Stage in NATO Maritime Exercise

Ukrainian naval drones played a pivotal role in NATO's largest unmanned maritime systems exercise this month, with Ukrainian forces serving

www.sofx.com

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