Ellie Cook
The drone war, one of the defining features of the more than two and a half years of full-scale war in Ukraine, evolves at a blinding pace. Hundreds of airborne drones zip across the skies above the front lines each day, ticking off tasks ranging from reconnaissance to targeting, as well as kamikaze strikes designed to take out enemy armored vehicles, personnel and positions.
Among the most famous are cheap first-person view (FPV) drones, well known by now for zooming over the battlefield and capturing footage routinely shared online by both Russian and Ukrainian sources. Often, the video feed will cut off sharply as the drone careens toward its target and explodes.
But although Ukraine's stockpiles of various types of explosive drones are a crucial part of its unmanned aerial vehicles strategy, "we are short, very short on explosive substances," Vadym Mazevych, a former commander of the UAV battalion of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, told Newsweek during an interview in the Ukrainian capital on the sidelines of the Yalta European Strategy conference, organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
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