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Larry Lewis says, “In two months, we’ve had about the level of strikes in this tiny little area in Gaza as what we saw in Mosul and Raqqa combined.”

Samuel Bendett says, "Multiple Russian volunteer, state and affiliated manufacturing efforts have significantly ramped up FPV development and shipped large quantities to the front."

Heather Roff says, “In an anti-access aerial denial (a2ad) environment being able to maneuver quickly and in a distributed manner would mean keeping major targets out of range, thus protecting assets. If you can communicate (as necessary) with such distributed systems and power them without having to ‘bring them home’ you can have persistent and distributed assets. Depending on the mission, role, and function, this is a potential balance against long range precision fires and it could provide SEAD when necessary.”

Samuel Bendett says, “From the capability’s standpoint, Russia started the war with large-scale defenses along the entire line and those defenses have held the Ukrainian counteroffensive. “

Samuel Bendett says, “Because of so many drones operating in the air, both surveillance and first-person-view ones, moving around has become very difficult for both sides.”

Samuel Bendett says that Russia's FPV development has probably "grown exponentially," although it is difficult to determine how many FPV drones are present on, and above, the battlefield.

Samuel Bendett says that Russia’s substantial monthly production of FPV drones, which has likely reached an exponential growth. While precise figures are difficult to ascertain, the observable increase in drone activity over battlegrounds indicates that Russia’s FPV drone capabilities are expanding.

Bryce Peterson says that more police agencies need to use body camera video in their training.

Samuel Bendett says, “We are seeing more MoD involvement - soldiers are getting trained, there are more FPV piloting schools opening up across the country, the military is definitely interested in keeping this going.”

Elizabeth Wishnick says, “The partnership with Russia is big priority for China despite the fallout for certain foreign policy goals from the war in Ukraine, and that’s because there’s a certain amount of interdependence between China and Russia, shared goals, despite differences in many areas.”

Samuel Bendett says, “We’ve seen it first with the use of the Chinese-made quadcopters, which were purchased in large quantities, and now we’re seeing it with FPVs which are manufactured by the many thousands every month by each side.”

John Crissman says, “Winning the AI3 competition is incredibly exciting and fills our CNA-RIIS team with motivation to face new challenges.”

David Finkelstein says, "You can be cynical and say that talking and engaging and having discussions are not going to solve problems, and you wouldn't be far wrong. But not talking to each other is no longer a low-risk proposition,"

Samuel Bendett says that it is difficult to control the trade flows of civilian microelectronics with military applications, and it is these dual-use items in particular that Russia takes advantage of.

Dmitry Gorenburg says that Russia's response to Israeli nuclear threats is part of a larger geopolitical strategy that rebukes the West in reaction to nuclear constraints associated with the Ukraine war.

Samuel Bendett says that experts have placed the number of FPV-type drones flying in Ukraine “in the many thousands per month.”