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Cell Phones Help Provide Ukraine Detection Network Against Russian Kamikaze Drones

Cell Phones Help Provide Ukraine Detection Network Against Russian Kamikaze Drones
Pictured is a Ukrainian Defense Ministry photo that the ministry said is a downed Iranian Shahed-136 drone on Sept. 13, 2022 near Kupiansk in Ukraine's Kharkiv region (Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Photo)

Small kamikaze drones have been a worry for U.S. commanders--most recently in a deadly attack on the U.S. Tower 22 base in northeast Jordan near Syria on Jan. 28. While the U.S. military services have pursued advanced technology efforts to detect and destroy such "one-way" drones, the U.S. may be able to leverage the relative simplicity and low-cost of what Ukraine has done to detect and destroy Russian-employed kamikaze drones, such as the Iranian Shahed-136. "We learn when someone's back…

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