
Ukrainian troops have made extensive use of drones
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Ukraine and Russia are now three years into what has been called the first drone war: not the first in which they were used, but the first in which they have been a major factor on the battlefield. What lessons have others drawn about the shape of future wars?
“Drones are here to stay, and they will be everywhere – on the ground, in the air and at sea – in numbers,” says Oleksandra Molloy at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia. “The point of no return was…