Ukraine's Drone Defense Revolutionizes Warfare.

Ukraine's flexible and adaptive air defenses have forced Russia to change its drone tactics, using large salvos of carefully routed drones to avoid Ukrainian defenses. Ukrainian interception rates have gotten "good enough that the Russians are now kind of saving up their Iranian production allocations until they have large amounts," according to an airpower expert. In turn, Ukraine has formed mobile air-defense teams equipped with a variety of short-range and portable weapons, including self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, shoulder-fired missiles, and even heavy machine guns paired with searchlights. Russia has begun sending a few drones ahead of the main attack wave to attract the attention of Ukrainian anti-aircraft sites "and see what lights up," and then change the routing of the main strike wave to try and avoid it.