A Russian jet fighter dropped flares that damaged the wing of a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone as it flew over Syria, U.S. officials said
Since the Ukrainian counteroffensive began, there has been a dramatic increase in Ukraine’s use of cheap FPV, or first-person-view drones, to execute kamikaze-style attacks on Russian tanks and large-scale weapons. Photo illustration: Jeremy Shuback
While the world’s attention has been focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, new Russian attacks against U.S. drones have made Syria a fraught arena for military competition between Moscow and Washington.Continue reading your article with
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