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 drone warfare makes supply convoys too vulnerable on future battlefields.
- According to Ukrainian internal assessments from 2024, drones were responsible for nearly seven out of ten attacks targeting Russian soldiers, as well as three-quarters of strikes against military vehicles and equipment.
- Army leaders at Wiesbaden emphasized the need to rethink tank maneuvers and convoy use due to drone surveillance, signaling the obsolescence of traditional ground tactics.
- First Generation Curtis Taylor highlighted the shifting economics of warfare by noting how inexpensive drones, costing around $900, are capable of taking out combat vehicles valued at $9 million.
- These developments indicate a broad military shift toward adapting training and tactics to counter pervasive drone threats and reduce reliance on large convoys in combat.
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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.
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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