{"id":261534,"date":"2024-10-02T23:51:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T23:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/02\/drone-versus-drone-combat-is-bringing-a-new-kind-of-warfare-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:01","slug":"drone-versus-drone-combat-is-bringing-a-new-kind-of-warfare-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/02\/drone-versus-drone-combat-is-bringing-a-new-kind-of-warfare-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone versus drone combat is bringing a new kind of warfare to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1351\" height=\"900\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02162624\/SEI_221450707.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2450429\" data-caption=\"A Ukrainian drone operator with a first-person view kamikaze drone\" data-credit=\"Andriy Andriyenko\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">A Ukrainian drone operator with a first-person view kamikaze drone<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Andriy Andriyenko\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>As both sides of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war attempt to claim technological supremacy, drone versus drone combat has become routine \u2013 and thanks to the ubiquity of cameras, this new kind of warfare is being documented in real time across air, land and sea.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has already been dubbed the \u201cfirst drone war\u201d, with some sources <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2024\/06\/19\/small-drones-will-soon-lose-combat-advantage-french-army-chief-says\/\">suggesting that small drones are inflicting as much as 80 per cent of the damage to military hardware and personnel<\/a>. Now, the war has evolved, with machines\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2450427-drone-versus-drone-combat-is-bringing-a-new-kind-of-warfare-to-ukraine\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A Ukrainian drone operator with a first-person view kamikaze drone Andriy Andriyenko\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock As both sides of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war attempt to claim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}