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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 12h

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

How Russia Recovered

What the Kremlin is learning from the war in Ukraine.

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 1d

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Ukraine's brigades do their own R&D, this keeps them ahead of Russia technologically, but outdated central leadership fails to capitalize

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 1d

“…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

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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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...