Growing Russian success in the drone war is partly explained by the density of electronic warfare systems it is able to field, thanks to those years of investment. The system has a 10km range and can take over control of the drone, while acquiring the co-ordinates of the place from where it is being piloted, with an accuracy of one metre, for transmission to an artillery battery. Ukraine has trained an army of some 10,000 drone pilots who are now constantly engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with increasingly adept Russian electronic warfare operators. The favoured drones are cheap, costing not much more than $1,000 each, and Ukraine is building enormous quantities of them. Most of the attention to what Ukraine needs in its protracted struggle to free its territory from the invading Russian forces has focused on hardware: tanks, fighter jets, missiles, air-defence batteries, artillery and vast quantities of munitions. But a less discussed weakness lies in electronic warfare. What is your take on Russia military complex ?

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