Joe Daniels
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This is really the first time that armed groups are challenging the state's aerial supremacy.
Hi, Victoria.
So Colombian former soldiers, veterans, are fighting in Ukraine.
It's part of a phenomenon, really, that we've seen Colombian veterans do all around the world.
They've popped up in Sudan, they've popped up in the Middle East, and also in Ukraine.
And essentially, Colombian soldiers are highly trained veterans
skilled and experienced in fighting.
And so when they retire, they are ripe for being recruited by private security companies around the world and also foreign militaries.
Well, they're using drones in Colombia's own internal armed conflict against the state.
These armed groups, they began with political ideologies and origins going back as far as the 60s.
Some of them with leftist origins and others sort of right wing paramilitary armed groups.
All of them are involved in the drug trade, in illegal mining, in extortion rackets.
And as a result, they've been at war with the government who is trying to disrupt their illegal activities.
And now they're using drones in order to drop bombs on military targets.
Well, this is a new frontier in Colombia's internal conflict.
This is really the first time that armed groups are challenging the state's aerial supremacy.
The government claims to be doing fairly well in fighting back against these attacks.
The defense ministry says
has estimated that last year, the military neutralized 96% of attempted drone attacks.
But it's kind of a cat and mouse thing because the armed groups are now starting to use technology that has been deployed on the front lines of Ukraine, where they're using these first person view drones, they call them, which are much more agile, much harder to shoot down.
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