Sinéad Baker
A NATO veteran who volunteered to fight in Ukraine said they must be seen as expendable.
Officials from the US and UK armies said they are increasingly training with that in mind. Ukraine's large-scale drone war is pushing Western militaries to treat small drones less as high-end equipment and more as expendable ammunition that isn't meant to come back.
US Army and British Army officials, as well as a NATO veteran who volunteered to fight in Ukraine, told Business Insider that effective drone warfare requires sending large numbers forward — and accepting many will be lost as a routine cost. Maj. Rachel Martin, the director of the US Army's new drone lethality course, told Business Insider that the conflict shows that "if you're going to flood the zone with drones," especially in a combat situation where electronic warfare is heavy, "you're going to lose a lot of drones."
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