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Former Rep. Chris Stewart, a former fighter pilot, says the U.S. isn’t prepared for this change in modern warfare.
An analysis by multiple experts of new video and satellite images suggests that at least 11 Russian bomber aircraft and one large transport plane were badly damaged or destroyed in Ukraine's drone attack on Sunday.
Both sides are now using large numbers of attack drones controlled via fiber optic cables which are immune to radio jamming making them effectiveley unstoppable.
Multiple explosions were heard the Ukrainian capital, where falling debris sparked fires across several districts as air defence systems attempted to intercept incoming targets
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How Ukraine’s Spider Web Drone Assault Upended Russia’s Air Power and Shook Global Defense DoctrineCheap drones destroyed a significant fraction of Russia’s nuclear-capable bomber force” a phrase that would have been the stuff of science fiction even a few years ago, but which now constitutes the reportage of the consequences of Ukraine’s Operation Spider Web,
Technological advances have given threadbare militaries and rebel fighters the ability to strike stunning blows against far stronger forces.
The Pentagon notified Congress last week that it will be diverting critical anti-drone technology that had been allocated for Ukraine to US Air Force units in the Middle East, according to correspondence obtained by CNN and people familiar with the matter.