Inside Ukraine's mobile drone-interceptor bases: How technology is shifting the war's momentum
By
Anne Applebaum
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Summary
The article describes a visit to a mobile drone-interceptor base outside Kyiv, Ukraine, highlighting how technological advances in drone warfare have fundamentally changed the conflict with Russia. It argues that Ukraine is not losing and Russia is not winning, pointing to a momentum shift driven by these innovations that may transform warfare forever.
Key quotes
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Inside the van there were no passenger seats, just a long desk, two office chairs, two laptops, extra screens.
This was a mobile drone-interceptor base, one of hundreds of similar vehicles now scattered around Ukraine.
It's also part of something much bigger: a set of technological advances that have changed the war with Russia, and maybe all wars, forever.
On one of the laptops, a soldier showed me a bird's-eye view of a part of the Ukrainian countryside more than 100 mi
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