You can read the details of Operation Spiderweb elsewhere. What interests me are the implications for future warfare: > If the Ukrainians could sneak drones so close to major air bases in a police > state such as Russia, what is to prevent the Chinese from doing the same with > U.S. air bases? Or the Pakistanis with Indian air bases? Or the North Koreans > with South Korean air bases? Militaries that thought they had secured their > air bases with electrified fences and guard posts will now have to reckon with > the threat from the skies posed by cheap, ubiquitous drones that cFan be > easily modified for military use. This will necessitate a massive investment > in counter-drone systems. Money spent on conventional manned weapons systems > increasingly looks to be as wasted as spending on the cavalry in the 1930s...