Russia-Ukraine war: How China is reining in Ukraine's war of drones
The world’s largest manufacturer of the aircraft is making it harder for Ukraine to access the key battlefield tech.
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The world’s largest manufacturer of the aircraft is making it harder for Ukraine to access the key battlefield tech.
As the war with Russia stretches on, so too does a contest to make more and deadlier flying machines. That means a fight over global electronics supply chains that run through China.
Surrounded by rooms filled with stacks of cluster munitions and half-made thermobaric bombs, a soldier from Ukraine’s 92nd Mechanized Brigade
While Iran and Turkey produce large, military-grade drones used by Russia and Ukraine, the cheap consumer drones that have become ubiquitous on the front line largely come from China, the world’s biggest maker of those devices.
The drones, nicknamed "the bat," were built for Ukraine's farmers to spray pesticides on crops. Now, they're facing off against Russia's tanks.