‘Death from above’ isn’t just something painted on the side of Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore's helicopter in Apocalypse Now anymore. Now you can buy it off the shelf…

Over the weekend, Operation Spider Web used over 100 first-person view drones to hit four air bases in Russia.

And they’re cheap, you can buy them online (there will surely come a day when Amazon drones will deliver drones), arm them, and then drop them from the sky like a horde of locusts, all very Biblical, all very end of days.

Consider this: hoard technology, especially weapons technology, and you centralize power. Disperse it and watch that power dissipate alongside it. 

So, what now for this new world of warfare where a $100 drone can sometimes make a $70m fighter jet look obsolete?

On the latest episode, we talk to former Ukraine Minister of Defence, Andriy Zagorodnyuk and Tim Ripley, journalist, and Editor at Defence Eye to ask if the way we fight war is really changing and how those things might play out for Ukraine. 

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Presenter:  David Patrikarakos

Producer: Philip Wilding

Editor: Alex Graham

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini

Executive Producer: Bella Soames 

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