Drones are “ubiquitous, because they are quite useful, and they're demonstrating that every day in Ukraine,” one analyst told NBC News.

Ukraine released new footage on Wednesday of its major drone strike on four Russian military airbases, showing attack drones targeting numerous Russian strategic bombers and landing on two airborne early warning and control planes.

American airbases in the western Pacific lack sufficient passive defenses to keep aircraft safe from a Chinese missile or drone strike.

After too many nights of pulling children from the rubble of Russian drone strikes, the weekend’s devastating attacks on Moscow’s military pride mark a brief respite for Ukrainian morale, and yet another twist of the unexpected.

Kyiv’s devastating attacks on Russia underscore how easily cheap drones can cripple an air force, including America’s.