News archive on the topic "American drones"

American reconnaissance drones continue to patrol the Black Sea and the coast of Crimea. The aviation tracking service Itamilradar published the routes of three military reconnaissance aircraft at once. The website reports that the US Air Force Boeing RC-135V and US Navy Lockheed EP-3E Orion (ARIES II) electronic reconnaissance aircraft based at Souda Bay airbase on the island of Crete, as well as the Boeing P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine patrol aircraft...

The American strategic reconnaissance drone RQ-4 Global Hawk flew around Crimea. A member of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs organization, Andrei Klimenko, reported this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, Ukrainians feel more relaxed when American UAVs are flying nearby. “It’s somehow calmer this way. This is the RQ-4 Global Hawk, a US strategic reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle,” wrote...

The American strategic drone Global Hawk conducted a reconnaissance flight for the third time in April along the demarcation line between Ukraine and the LPR and DPR. LPR representative in the Minsk contact group Rodion Miroshnik reported this on his Facebook page. “The American strategic drone Global Hawk conducted a reconnaissance flight for the third time in April along the demarcation line between Ukraine and...

A US Air Force drone conducted a reconnaissance flight near the Crimean Peninsula. This was reported by TV channel 112 with reference to the aviation tracking service CivMilAir, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte It is noted that the American RQ-4A Global Hawk aircraft conducted reconnaissance over the Black Sea along the coastline of Crimea. It was also said that...

The military assistance provided by the West to Ukraine often does not make sense, since it does not find its application in the combat zone. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Vitaly Deinega, the founder of the Ukrainian volunteer foundation “Come Back Alive”, spoke about this in an interview with the Kyiv online publication “Apostrophe”. “Now we have a ready-made study - on the help that the West gave us, and on...

The unmanned aerial vehicles used by the Ukrainian army are forced to fly very low due to weak optics, and are therefore vulnerable even to small arms fire. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Maria Berlinskaya, director of the Ukrainian Aerointelligence Support Center, told the Kraina magazine about this. “Most of the fighting happens at night. We fly on model aircraft, in which we install thermal imaging...

“Drones worth millions of dollars that the United States transferred to fight against militants and the Russian hybrid army have proven ineffective against jamming and hacking,” reports Reuters. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The publication cites the opinion of Nathan Khazin, adviser to the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who said that “if this issue depended on him, he would have returned...

A batch of modern unmanned aerial vehicles from the United States with a total value of more than $12 million has arrived in Kiev. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. This was reported by the press service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the official Facebook page. “As part of the European Restoration Initiative (ERI) program, the US defense department transferred...