"Russia's Pearl Harbor" - by Nathan Mintz

I was on this week’s Drone Wars Podcast with Dan Magy from Firestorm talking about CX2 and the current state of play in the UAS and counter-UAS space. It’s a two part episode so be sure to tune in for the rest of it, where I also talk about “Gundo” and the challenges of finding and cultivating talent and building startups. You can watch on Youtube below or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcast (sorry in advance for the congestion, I was fighting a terrible headcold): Now onto this week’s news of a Ukrainian massive drone sneak attack behind Russian lines, with familiar themes like penetrating enemy supply and logistics chains and using them against them like Israel’s devastating attacks on Hezbollah last year and leveraging drones launched from Shipping Containers as we talked about in the penultimate edition of this Substack. Dubbed Operation Spider Web, the Ukrainians appear to have pulled off a quite daring assault with targets as far east as Siberia, with some sources claiming as much

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