David Hambling

6 days ago | forbes.com | David Hambling

Last month, Ukrainian officials announced plans to field 15,000 ground robots – Uncrewed Ground Vehicles or UGVs -- in 2025. That is a huge scaling up, and for obvious reasons. “It’s no secret that Ukraine is facing a severe shortage of personnel,” Kateryna Bondar, Fellow at Wadhwani AI Center, at the thinktank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) told me.

1 week ago | forbes.com | David Hambling

Birds of Magyar is one of Ukraine’s most lethal drone units, having grown rapidly from a platoon in 2022 to a full regiment at the end of 2024. Robert Brovdi, the unit’s larger-than-life commander, is well aware of the power of online media and the unit publishes videos with kill statistics every month on its YouTube channel. In March they hit over 5,000 targets.

1 week ago | forbes.com | David Hambling

Ukraine’s legendary ‘Birds of Magyar’ is one of the most successful drone units of all time. Under its charismatic commander Robert Brovdi, callsign Magyar ( ‘Madyar’ in Ukrainian, meaning Hungarian), the unit has grown in three years from a platoon into a regiment destroying vast numbers of Russian forces each month. This rate of growth is extraordinary in a military unit and looks more like a tech start up --and maybe that is a better description of what Birds of Magyar really is.

1 week ago | forbes.com | David Hambling

Russia’s campaign of strategic drone attacks has shifted up through the gears and is now sending over 4,000 drones a month into Ukraine, hitting energy infrastructure and apartment blocks. Numbers will increase even further in coming months as mass production of Iranian-designed Shaheds, Russian Gerberas and other types ramps up.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | David Hambling

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