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Mud, Not Missiles: The Real Threat to Unmanned Ground Vehicles Byron Boots, Co-Founder and CEO | October 9, 2025

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

How Russia Recovered What the Kremlin is learning from the war in Ukraine.

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own R&D rules to stay alive Ukraine's brigades do their own R&D, this keeps them ahead of Russia technologically, but outdated central leadership fails to capitalize

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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

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

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

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

Colonelcassad 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...

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...

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...

YouTube video by ABC News Fight in flight: Closing the gap on a changing battlefield

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

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.

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...

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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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.

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

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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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...

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...

YouTube video by Cheddar Russia Put A €100k Bounty On This Autonomous War Machine in Ukraine

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

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

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How Ukraine Gamified Drone Warfare The Army of Drones bonus program brings elements of Roblox and Fortnite to the blood-soaked realm of real-life combat

How Ukraine Gamified Drone Warfare
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China Converts Soviet-Era J-6 Fighter Jets Into High-Speed Combat Drones China’s repurposed J-6 fighters become supersonic drones, boosting swarm, decoy, and kamikaze strike options at low conversion cost.

China Converts Soviet-Era J-6 Fighter Jets Into High-Speed Combat Drones nextgendefense.com/china-soviet...

Army shaking up new autonomy initiative, pivoting away from ISVs: Sources - Breaking Defense “The focus will be mission autonomy” with the goal of letting companies bring in the best robots rather than trying to automate more ISVs, a senior defense official told Breaking Defense.

Army shaking up new autonomy initiative, pivoting away from ISVs: Sources breakingdefense.com/2025/09/army...

Exclusive: Chinese drone experts worked with sanctioned Russian arms maker, sources say Reuters is the first to report specific details of the extensive involvement of Chinese experts in tests and technological work on military-use drones inside Russia.

Chinese drone experts worked with sanctioned Russian arms maker, sources say www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Ukraine's Zelenskyy issues a stark warning about a global arms race and AI war Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the U.N. General Assembly a day after President Trump made another shift in his stance on Russia's war in Ukraine.

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Can NATO innovate fast enough to counter Russia’s growing drone threat? | CNN After multiple Russian drones violated NATO airspace, Europe faces questions over the alliance’s long-term ability to deal with this growing threat.

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North Korea unveils two kamikaze drones with AI focus North Korea unveils two kamikaze drones with AI focus Geumseong-series drones mimic Israeli, Russian designs; experts evaluate AI integration and combat potential

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