The Ukraine-Russia war has become a proving ground for what drones can do in conflict.
Ukrainian forces have used small, first-person view (FPV) drones to blow up Russian tanks on their soil and longer-range devices to damage military aircraft in Russia. Drone attacks this winter have hit oil refineries deep inside Russian territory, as well as a major steel factory. Explosives-laden naval drones have slammed into Russian ships.
With the war now in its third year, Ukraine is leaning hard into drones as a combat strategy, ramping up its domestic production and counting on allies to deliver one million of them in the next 12 months.
A Ukrainian soldier launches a Furiia model
