Inside Ukraine’s drone factories and pilot schools

The grinding, attritional war between Russia and Ukraine is now entirely dominated by drones.  As a result, in the four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has created from nothing an entire industry and ecosystem capable of designing, manufacturing and operating a variety of ingenious drones. New Scientist was granted access to the pilot schools, labs and factories that are the engine room of this new industry – one that Kyiv hopes to make beneficial and profitable, selling expertise and devices to Western states, once the war is over.