In recent weeks, drones have provided a clear edge to Ukraine’s military in taking out the Russian forces. Accounts of drone use have included small drone owners conducting unspecified reconnaissance missions in Kyiv at the government’s behest, volunteer groups procuring hundreds of sub-250-gram drones to donate to the Ukrainian troops, and commercial drones being weaponized to drop Molotov cocktails on the invading forces.
And as Justin Bronk, a research fellow at UK’s defense and security think tank Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), observes:
The effectiveness so far of the [drones] speaks more to the skill of its Ukrainian operators and the incompetence and operational failures of Russian forces than any particularly unique capabilities of the drone itself.
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