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Italy has received US permission to purchase MQ-9 Reaper drones from General Atomics.
It is an unmanned full kill chain system. It can locate, lock on, track and engage a target up to 45 kilometres away and then evaluate the result of the attack. REX is designed to drop different types of munitions (2 to 8 units) with a maximum total weight of 10kg. The drone can stay in the air for 1.5 hours. The claimed maximum flight speed is up to 35 m/s.
This was announced by Latvian Defence Minister Andris Spruds on Twitter. The new aid package will include about 500 drones. By the way, Latvia has previously transferred the same number of UAVs to Ukraine.
Soldiers from the Kurt & Company unit of the 28th Separate Brigade named after the Knights of the Winter Campaign showed how they use a "robodog" on the battlefield.
In the United States, Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Q-UGV, a rifle-armed "robot dog" with artificial intelligence that will hunt for various drones, was tested.
The Ministry of Defence of the terrorist country said that since the beginning of this year, they have allegedly supplied their group in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine with 700 robotic systems.
The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine has announced that the state has contracted one million domestically produced drones for the Ukrainian Defence Forces in 2024.
The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine has tested Lithuanian-made FPV drones in conditions as close to combat as possible.
The Ukrainian company Skyeton, known for its ACS-3/Raybird-3 reconnaissance systems, has expanded its operations to Slovakia. The company's founder, Oleksandr Stepura, said that investments in the new Slovak factory reached $3.5 million.
The Houthis' drone attack on Tel Aviv on 19 July took Israelis by surprise, breaking through the country's battle-tested defences and revealing vulnerabilities.
Ukraine's defence industry, in cooperation with international partners, is capable of producing more than three million drones a year
The Czech Republic has officially joined the coalition of states that actively support Ukraine in the purchase of UAVs, led by Latvia and the United Kingdom.
Boeing and the Ukrainian state-owned enterprise Antonov signed a cooperation agreement on UAV maintenance.
The Ukrainian army has been using German Vector drones on the frontline since the beginning of the full-scale war. Now information has emerged that the manufacturer has updated the UAV specifically for the Ukrainian armed forces.
South Korea has announced that this year it will deploy laser weapons to destroy North Korean drones that invade its airspace.
