Auto pilots How drones are changing the dynamics of combat

Shot after shot pounded into the Russian missile battery hidden by the lighthouse on Snake Island, a Black Sea rock 35km from the Ukrainian coast. The edited video, released by the Ukrainian military, showed the strike and its aftermath – all taken from a Turkish-designed Bayraktar TB2 drone.

Until then, evidence of the TB2 – a remotely piloted killer drone with a range of up to 300km – had largely disappeared from the conflict. The assumption was that the two dozen or so that Ukraine had bought