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The drone defense dilemma: How unmanned aircraft are redrawing battle lines February 14 A rocket launches from a Pantsir-S air defense system at the Ashuluk military base in Russia on Sept. 22, 2020. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images) ROME First there was the video from Libya of a Turkish drone destroying a Russian Pantsir missile defense system. Next came the veteran S-300 air defense system also Russian being taken out in Nagorno-Karabakh by an Israeli-built Harop loitering munition. In the conflicts in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh last year, unmanned platforms often made short work of the ground-based systems designed to neutralize them, paving the way for easy attacks on vulnerable troops.

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