The chapter explores how Ukraine has leveraged cost-effective methods to develop a successful drone startup ecosystem, leading to superior technology, while Russia adopts a centralized approach. Despite facing challenges in manpower for drone operation, Ukraine's drones provide a granular view of the battlefield, influencing the shift towards cheaper and easily producible weaponry in modern warfare.
A growing number of Ukrainian entrepreneurs, engineers and tech workers are joining the war effort against Russia, making and delivering a key tool: drones. They’re low-cost, high-impact and can do everything from transporting supplies to dropping bombs across enemy lines.
On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg Technology editor Jake Rudnitsky talks with host Sarah Holder about the burgeoning cottage industry that’s transforming the battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine war – and what the shift to drone warfare could mean for conflicts around the world.
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