"It allows drones to be operated beyond the pilot's visual line of sight, and it allows multiple drones to operate by one operator or pilot," McDanolds said.

This is Chris York reporting from Kyiv on day 1,435 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) on Jan. 28 released a video compilation of what it claimed was the destruction of more than $1 billion worth of Russian military aircraft in long-range drone strikes conducted by its "A" Special Operations Center,

This comes on top of a reported $4 billion loss in destroyed air defense systems.

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