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Oleksandr Syrskyi
Oleksandr Syrskyi

“Highly motivated technology teams are relentlessly working to improve their products, which are already being used by our forces, and developing their start-ups based on the goal we set for them in order to enable us to achieve our tactical and strategic objectives. We're not just talking about surface- and air-based drones, but also robotised systems that can undertake tasks such as mine clearance, remotely controlled weapon stations, and other technologies that we will soon see being deployed. Our enemies are going to feel the impact. We should pay particular attention to remotely controlled weapon systems, which will soon be used in battle.”

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Ukraine’s commander of ground forces
07 Apr 2024 4 2
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Leonid Ragozin
Leonid Ragozin

“So will Russians blame Putin for failing to avert the tragedy? Collective psychology is notoriously unpredictable. Some may, but it is unlikely that anything would come of it. Even without this attack, it has been clear to the Russian population that the period of stability, security and economic growth that Putin has been lauded for is long over. War is literally at the door with Ukrainian forces conducting incursions into Russian territory, sending drones to strike oil refineries and destroying Russian battleships in the Black Sea.”

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Freelance journalist based in Riga
25 Mar 2024 8 3
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Douglas Barrie
Douglas Barrie

“Kyiv certainly has the capacity to mass produce FPV [first person viewer] UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] given that many of these are based on commercial or hobbyist products. Manufacturing larger multi-role UAVs is more demanding, but again Kyiv has the ability to do this, if on a far smaller scale.”

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Senior fellow for military aerospace at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
12 Feb 2024 5 4
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Hossein Amirabdollahian
Hossein Amirabdollahian

“Their comments on the missiles part are completely wrong, and the drones part is correct. We gave a limited number of drones to Russia months and before the war in Ukraine. We have emphasised to Ukrainian officials that if there is evidence about the use of Iranian drones in the Ukraine war by Russia, they should present it to us.”

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Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran
05 Nov 2022 5 5
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Zachary Kallenborn
Zachary Kallenborn

“There's been a lot of debates between experts about whether drones will be used in more advanced fights, like a potential US-China conflict. These examples [in Ukraine] are evidence that drones will be used extensively even by more advanced military powers. We're seeing the military value in using large amounts of mass drones, so a logical response would be 'Well, how do we make this more effective? How can we integrate this with other communications, make it more dynamic, make it more precise?' The technology is certainly going in a direction where these are the future of war.”

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Policy fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government who researches unconventional weapons and technology
20 Oct 2022 4 4
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Ulrike Franke
Ulrike Franke

“These drones allow Russia to target Ukrainians far away from the front line, away from the primary battle space. But it's not just a tactic to target civilian populations and infrastructure. It's also about depleting Ukrainian air defences. Every drone shot down is another shot from Ukrainian defence systems - whether people or weapons - that can't be used against something else.”

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Senior policy fellow at the European Council for Foreign Relations who leads its Technology and European Power Initiative
20 Oct 2022 4 2
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Samir Puri
Samir Puri

“These drones were bought off the shelf from Iran, moved to the war zone and being used, I think, very much as a weapon that will continue to confuse Ukrainian air defences by adding something else in the mix.”

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Analyst at King’s College London
17 Oct 2022 6 4
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Mauro Gilli
Mauro Gilli

“There have been some video footages allegedly showing the employment of the TB2. Of course, information at this point is fragmented, and it needs to be taken with caution. We do know that Ukraine bought some TB2 over the past years and that Turkey and Ukraine signed an agreement for the production within Ukrainian borders of the TB2 - but, as far as I know, production had not started yet. Allegedly, some transport aircraft delivered some drones shortly before the beginning of the hostilities with Russia. The TB2 produced by the company Bayraktar is one of the two prominent armed drones produced by Turkey [the other being the Anka produced by Turkish Aerospace Industry]. It is cheaper than other Western models, but it has a good performance in key parameters [range, altitude as well as sensors and communication system].”

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Senior researcher in military technology and international security at ETH Zurich
11 Mar 2022 7 4
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William Davison
William Davison

“Ethiopia's intensified use of drones and the mobilisation of new recruits for the national army had increased pressure on Tigrayan forces. This has really hit the Tigrayan supply lines and meant that they had to give up on those offensive ambitions. Certainly Tigrayan commanders and leaders had expressed a lot of confidence about their position. So it wouldn't be a massive surprise if, despite these setbacks, they were able to recover - and unfortunately that would mean this war dragging on for many months.”

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Senior Analyst at International Crisis Group
06 Dec 2021 4 2
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Frank Kendall
Frank Kendall

“There is an arms race, not necessarily for increased numbers, but for increased quality. It's an arms race that has been going on for quite some time. The Chinese have been at it very aggressively. While the US military has focused funds on Iraq and Afghanistan, it has taken its eye off the ball in terms of hypersonic weapons. This isn't saying we've done nothing, but we haven't done enough. I love the A-10 [combat aircraft]. The C-130 [cargo plane] is a great aircraft that's been very capable and very effective for a lot of missions. The MQ-9s [drones] have been very effective for counterterrorism and so on. They're still useful, but none of these things scare China.”

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United States Secretary of the Air Force
30 Nov 2021 10 4
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Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark

“Killer robot proliferation has begun. It's not in humanity's best interest that cheap slaughterbots are mass-produced and widely available to anyone with an axe to grind. It's high time for world leaders to step up and take a stand.”

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Physicist, cosmologist and machine learning researcher. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute.
30 May 2021 5 3
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