Russian forces have engaged soldiers from North Korea in the Kursk region, where they first encountered drones. The method of combating drones by North Korean soldiers was discovered by Ukrainian special forces in a captured notebook.

Although not new, drone warfare has truly come of age in the war in Ukraine, and the lessons are plenty. The conflict in Ukraine has introduced drone warfare at an unprecedented scale. There is a constant buzzing of drones of all sizes above the battlefield in Ukraine as both sides are using unmanned aerial systems in great numbers.