For the last four years, one of the cheapest machines on the battlefield has been destroying some of the most expensive.

A small racing drone carrying an explosive can cost a tiny fraction of the armored vehicle, radar station or air-defense system it is sent to attack. It can skim above a road, disappear behind a tree line, turn around buildings and approach from angles that traditional weapons were never designed to watch.

And the obvious ways of stopping it have created a problem of their own.

You can fire a missile at it, but spending a weapon worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to destroy a drone worth a few thousand is not an equation any military wants to repeat thousands of times.

You can jam it, and for a while that became one of Ukraine's most important defenses. Fill the air with enough electronic interference and the radio connection between pilot and drone begins to collapse. The video feed breaks up, navigation fails, and the machine can lose the commands telling it where to go.

So the drone changed.






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