The Ukrainian Drone Order of Battle: Lessons for Commercial Drone Operators

Russia vs. Ukraine. It’s as lopsided a war as there could be. Russia has all the advantages: a nearly 4x population advantage, thousands of tanks and fighter jets, and orders of magnitude more industrial capacity.

Plus, the flat terrain of Ukraine makes a perfect playground for the rapid movement of large-scale armored divisions. Or so everyone had thought. Because the vast majority of large-scale tank battles in WWII occurred in Ukraine, the expectation was that history would repeat itself.

But history didn’t repeat itself.

Enter the drone. Or rather: enter a different kind of drone.

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