FPV drones are proving a breakout success in the Ukraine conflict so far. They can be used against personnel carriers, trucks and even infantry entrenches. One of the big challenges with FPV is operate training. It takes several weeks to train someone how to use them effectively. The ripples for this will go very far outside this conflict.
Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman says a presence in top-level global sport is one route to modernising; critics call the effort a distraction from the country’s appalling human-rights record. Brazil’s government is pushing reforms that are clearly calming investors, who had fretted about a return to ruinously spendthrift policies (9:20). And how speedy “first-person-view” drones are changing the fight in Ukraine (16:25).
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