Die USA bemühen sich, im Kampf gegen kleine Drohnen aufzuholen
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-12/us-military-scrambles-to-catch-up-with-drone-warfare-tactics-from-ukraine
Die USA bemühen sich, im Kampf gegen kleine Drohnen aufzuholen
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-12/us-military-scrambles-to-catch-up-with-drone-warfare-tactics-from-ukraine
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*From Bloomberg News reporter Katrina Manson*
As Russia’s war in Ukraine nears the four-year mark, similar cat-and-mouse maneuvers with armed drones are proving deadly. US officials have told Congress that Ukraine is producing more than 3 million drones a year to defend itself. Yet as recently as this spring, the US was planning to buy just 4,000 drones for the entire year — equivalent to the number of drones Ukraine produces and consumes per day, according to US congressional testimony.
The US became synonymous with drone warfare in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks: Plane-sized Unmanned Aerial Vehicles surveilled and struck combatants — and sometimes civilians — in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and more.
But today’s small-drone revolution has so far left the US behind. In the heat of war, Ukrainian fighters have developed new drone tactics and platforms that have upended received wisdom, while the US has traditionally focused on larger and more high-tech weapons with an eye on deterring potential conflict with China.
[Read more here](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-12/us-military-scrambles-to-catch-up-with-drone-warfare-tactics-from-ukraine).
This administration is putting the USA on the backfoot during the most dramatic paradigm shift in conventional warfare since the HMS Dreadnought. In coming ground wars the USA highly likely will severely underperform.
If only they had an ally who invented small drone warfare and could help them.
The United States isn’t in the middle of a massive ground conflict. Why would they need millions of short-range drone munitions? What would they do with them? (Other than give them to Ukraine.)
Studying the Russian invasion and developing their own counter-drone tactical doctrines on a small-scale, experimental basis seems like exactly the sort of thing a country like the USA should be doing right now.
Don’t worry, we’ll be ready for the last war.
Seems like a good time to burn bridges with Ukraine… /s