US Edition‘If You Can Be Seen, You Can Be Killed’: Drone Warfare Forces Broad Rethink of Training, Army Leaders Say
UKRAINE, JUL 17 – Drones accounted for 69% of strikes on Russian forces in 2024, enabling Ukraine to slow advances despite Russia's superior resources and troop numbers.
- Maj. Gen. Ronald R. Ragin stated on July 17, 2025, at a Wiesbaden symposium that supply convoys are too vulnerable due to drone warfare.
- Internal Ukrainian assessments indicate that, in 2024, drones were responsible for carrying out 69% of attacks targeting Russian personnel and 75% of those aimed at vehicles and equipment.
- Ukraine plans to produce 30,000 long-range UAVs in 2025 to attack deep Russian targets, while Russian forces are adapting with increased drone capabilities.
- Gen. Curtis Taylor highlighted how inexpensive drones have been able to take out multimillion-dollar combat vehicles, illustrating a shift in the economic dynamics influencing ground warfare strategies.
- Army leaders now argue that large convoys and traditional armor maneuvers will be obsolete on future battlefields, requiring dispersed logistics and new combat methods.
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‘If you can be seen, you can be killed’: Drone warfare forces broad rethink of training, Army leaders say
Top Army commanders discussed how the Russia-Ukraine war has upended traditional ground warfare tactics at the Association of the U.S. Army’s two-day symposium in Wiesbaden, Germany.
The Independent
The Independent (US)How Ukraine’s drone-infested front is slowing Russia’s advance
The Russia-Ukraine war has become the most drone-intensive conflict yet – and Ukrainian commanders believe they are the only thing keeping Russian forces at bay, writes Max Hunder and Sabine Siebold
Colorado Springs Gazette
Enter the kill zone: Ukraine's drone-infested front slows Russian advance
By Max Hunder, Sabine Siebold and Manuel Ausloos
Kill Russians, win points: Is Ukraine's new drone scheme gamifying war?
Kill Russians, win points: Is Ukraine's new drone scheme gamifying war? The images come in every day. Thousands of them. Men and equipment being hunted down along Ukraine's long, contested front lines. Everything filmed, logged and counted. And now put to use too, as the Ukrainian military tries…
The Reuters Agency writes about “a lot of drones” used in the modern war: Kamikazes, surveillance, bombing and drones that destroy other drones, according to the military, Ukrainian officers and arms producers.
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