News Summary

• Mid-range drones can travel roughly 30 to 300 km, carrying heavier payloads built to devastate command posts, supply trucks, and air defense assets.
• Some, equipped with artificial intelligence systems, can overcome Russian jamming by autonomously locking onto their target if they lose the pilot's signal.
• The use of these drones has risen in the last two months, and Russia has been losing more ground than it has gained.
• "We argue that the Ukrainian mid-range strike is actually heralding a new phase of the war," said George Barros, the director of Innovation and Open Source Tradecraft at the Institute for the Study of War.