
Geopolitics Decanted is a podcast featuring geopolitical analysis and in-depth expert interviews on topics ranging from War in Ukraine, Great Power Competition with China, changing nature of warfare, sanctions and export controls, semiconductors and cybersecurity. This is a podcast for people who care about the details and
It is hosted by Dmitri Alperovitch, Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator (www.silverado.org), a Washington DC-based non-profit with a mission to promote prosperity and global competitiveness for America and its allies by accelerating bipartisan strategic, economic and technological policy solutions.
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Inside the Drone War Arms Race in Ukraine
Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Andrey Liscovich about the latest updates in the evolution of drone warfare on the battlefields in Ukraine.
Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Andrey Liscovich (UkraineDefenseFund.org) about the latest updates in the evolution of drone warfare on the battlefields in Ukraine.
They discuss:
- How Ground Unmanned Vehicles (GUVs) are being used in battle
- 3rd Generation FPV drones
- Quadcopter bombers
- Mass-market EW systems
- Fiber optics C2
- EW recon units
- Use of aerial drones for anti-drone/aircraft warfare
- Impact of Chinese export controls
- Thermite 'Dracarys' drones
- Mothership drones
- Long-range deep strike drones
- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance drones
- How Starlink is giving Russia an advantage!
- How commercial satellite imagery of Ukrainian lands may be playing into Russia's hands
- Why the US and Ukrainian use-cases for drone warfare are so dramatically different
- Introduction of autonomy in unmanned systems
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