Ukraine has just demonstrated, in spectacular fashion, that a small but determined and innovative country can deploy cheap, scalable, and decentralized technology to challenge a much larger, conventionally superior foe. The implications for the war with Russia, and for modern warfare, could be profound.
NEW YORK – On June 1, Ukraine conducted one of the most extraordinary asymmetric operations in modern military history. Using domestically built first-person view (FPV) drones deployed from deep inside Russian territory, the Ukrainians launched a coordinated assault against multiple military airbases – some as far away as eastern Siberia, the border with Mongolia, and the Arctic.
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