Flying Cheap, Hitting Hard: How Low-Cost Drones Are Rewriting Tactical Warfare in Ukraine
Abstract The Russo-Ukrainian conflict initiated in 2022 represents the first instance of large-scale use of low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a high-intensity interstate war. This article analyses how low-cost drones − including adapted commercial drones, First Person View (FPV) drones, and heavy multicopter...