Taiwan needs drone testing that simulates Ukraine warfare: Skydio exec
TAIPEI -- Ukrainian forces have shown the world "what creative drone use could look like" in war, and a testing center that can mimic the electronic warfare conditions of the Russia-Ukraine theater is a "critically important" next step in building Taiwan's capabilities, a major U.S. drone manufacturer's executive said.
"You can't learn that unless you actually operate it," Mark Valentine, global head of national security strategy at Skydio, told Nikkei Asia during a visit to Taipei. "If you can create a test range where you can simulate the EW (electronic warfare) conditions that are going on in Russia and Ukraine right now," he said, it would help Taiwan's domestic drone industry and lead to a "highly EW-resilient drone."
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