{"id":22248,"date":"2022-03-23T01:50:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/how-elon-musks-satellites-are-helping-ukrainian-drones-to-destroy-russian-tanks\/"},"modified":"2022-03-23T01:50:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:50:46","slug":"how-elon-musks-satellites-are-helping-ukrainian-drones-to-destroy-russian-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/how-elon-musks-satellites-are-helping-ukrainian-drones-to-destroy-russian-tanks\/","title":{"rendered":"How Elon Musk\u2019s satellites are helping Ukrainian drones to destroy Russian tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UPi66Dn8tPc?feature=oembed&amp;rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent weeks, drones have provided a clear edge to Ukraine\u2019s military in taking out the Russian forces. Accounts of drone use have included small drone owners conducting unspecified reconnaissance missions in Kyiv at the government\u2019s behest, volunteer groups procuring hundreds of sub-250-gram drones to donate to the Ukrainian troops, and commercial drones being weaponized to drop Molotov cocktails on the invading forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And as Justin Bronk, a research fellow at UK\u2019s defense and security think tank Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), observes:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The effectiveness so far of the [drones] speaks more to the skill of its Ukrainian operators and the incompetence and operational failures of Russian forces than any particularly unique capabilities of the drone itself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read more:<\/strong> What DJI said in response to Ukraine\u2019s request to block Russians<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Featured image for representative purposes only<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/dronedj.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add DroneDJ as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/dronedj.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add DroneDJ as a preferred source on Google\"><\/p>\n<p>\tYou\u2019re reading DroneDJ \u2014 experts who break news about DJI and the wider drone ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow DroneDJ on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Don\u2019t know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks, drones have provided a clear edge to Ukraine\u2019s military in taking out the Russian forces. Accounts of drone use have included small drone owners conducting unspecified reconnaissance missions in Kyiv at the government\u2019s behest, volunteer groups procuring hundreds of sub-250-gram drones to donate to the Ukrainian troops, and commercial drones being weaponized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}