Senior Reporter for @BusinessInsider. Mostly covering defense news in Asia and Ukraine. Reach me at mloh@businessinsider.com; Mloh.12 on Signal
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Russia took just weeks to turn an empty field into a sprawling launch base for Geran-5s, its fastest class of low-cost attack drones bombarding Ukrainian cities.
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With a new assortment of catapult rails, this base can likely launch 100 drones a day, Mike Monnik, CEO of @DroneSecHQ, previously estimated. Ukrainian intelligence has also reported this figure.
Per Ukraine's air force, Russia launched an average 133 drones daily in October.
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Analysts @SFnuclear, @DroneSecHQ, and @bradyafr say it's a remarkably short turnaround rate.
It shows, they say, that Russia is quickly learning how to expand its launch capabilities for a threat that Ukraine is still trying to figure out how to beat reliably.
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Taiwan deployed counter-UAS teams, including infantry with jamming guns, at a helicopter hot-refueling drill during the Han Kuang.
My latest for Business Insider looks at how it's a lesson learned from Ukraine.
Thanks to @AaronMatthew_L for the pic.
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New: Ukrainian soldiers, anxious after the shock removal of reformist defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov, told us that they've found some solace in a new appointment for another key war role — commander in chief Mykhailo Drapatyi. w/@ma2loh & @sineadbaker1
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Most of the Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers I've spoken to this year have heaped praise on Fedorov. To them, he'd been dismantling much of the bureaucracy and dysfunction that was killing their own troops.
Now, he's being fired just as his policies start to take effect.
Ukraine is ousting pro-tech defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov after just 6 months. Soldiers told us the move is a big mistake that could benefit Russia and risks creating divisions within the ranks.
"We're upset. We're afraid of a bad impact." w/@ma2loh
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Ukraine is ousting pro-tech defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov after just 6 months. Soldiers told us the move is a big mistake that could benefit Russia and risks creating divisions within the ranks.
"We're upset. We're afraid of a bad impact." w/@ma2loh
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Around the world, interceptor drone makers say interest in their products has soared since war in the Middle East began.
New demand is overwhelmingly coming from the Gulf states, with queries on how to protect critical infrastructure. With @sineadbaker1
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New: The drones that Iran is launching at US forces and Gulf allies are the same ones that Ukraine has fought for years. Ukrainian soldiers told us their battlefield experience offers lessons that matter in the Middle East war. w/@sineadbaker1 and @ma2loh-
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Russian war bloggers are watching the US' new LUCAS drones — and fretting about Starlink terminals businessinsider.com/russian-…
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Interceptor drones, once a far-fetched experiment, are now a cornerstone of Ukraine’s air defense — used to down Russian drones. NATO and Western militaries are taking notice.
A deep dive w/@ma2loh inside the rise of one of Kyiv’s top defense priorities:
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Thales Belgium confirmed to me that the anti-drone FZ123 warhead, announced last year, is being used in Ukraine. Delivered via the FZ275 rocket, it's expected to be far more expensive than interceptor drones but a lot cheaper than conventional missiles.
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“In the case of the tactical ballistic missile, this was very much the case. Sometimes, it took even longer,” @federicoborsar1 discusses the ineffectiveness of Russia’s delayed strikes against Ukrainian units with @ma2loh. buff.ly/vq8RiHb
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NEW: @ma2loh and I spoke with several people involved in Ukraine's push to make fiber-optic drones. They can't be jammed with traditional electronic warfare, making them a huge threat in combat.
A look inside Kyiv's efforts to scale up production ->
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Singapore has so few reported housebreaking incidents (59 in the first half of 2024) that police flagged a spike when a single gang contributed to 10 extra burglaries.
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Chinese deepfakes of white women pose a unique problem, since the internet is walled off from the rest of the world.
@ma2loh spoke to a Ukranian student at Penn who was deepfaked for pro-Russia content, just weeks after starting a small YouTube channel.
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