How Ukraine turned mobile phone microphones into an air defence network

IAF gun camera footage of Iranian Shahed drone

Source: Israeli Defense Force

After enduring wave after wave of cheap suicide drones bombarding its cities, Ukraine found a novel solution for detecting and tracking the low, slow uncrewed aerial vehicles: microphones that can identify the airborne threats based on their audio signature.

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