Operation Spiderweb: Will low-cost suicide drones make pricey F-35s obsolete soon?

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With Ukrainian drone attack inflicting heavy damage on Russian air assets, many countries may now switch to making low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles instead of spending millions of dollars on producing or importing fighter aircraft

Moscow and Kyiv on June 2 resumed their fragile peace talks in Istanbul but made no major progress, just a day after

Ukraine

launched one of its largest

drone

attacks of the war inside

Russia

. Over a hundred drones targeted Russian air bases, reportedly damaging 40 long-range bombers and other aircraft worth a combined $7bn.
This offensive, dubbed Ukraine’s ‘Operation Spiderweb’, followed a severe blow Kyiv faced on May 31, when Russia unleashed a massive drone strike — 472 drones, the highest number since the full-scale invasion began in February 2022 — in an apparent attempt to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defences.

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