Drone warfare changing the face of battle

 Business Insider:

More and more, it isn't just tanks and armored vehicles falling prey to cheap hobby drones packed with explosives in Ukraine. These weapons are seemingly everywhere, killing not just unlucky vehicle crews but also dismounted infantry, sometimes even just a single soldier. Anything that moves is at risk.

"Welcome to the future. It sucks," a drone expert told Insider as combat footage from Ukraine on social media increasingly shows that nothing and no one is safe from these weapons.

While videos from the war still regularly show first-person-view (FPV) drones slamming into tanks, armored personnel carriers, and supply trucks, footage also frequently shows precision strikes on dugouts, troop hideouts, trenches, squads, and lone soldiers.

The videos, a few of which appear in this article, are graphic images of the human cost of war and highlight just how much these weapons, really unlike anything else on the battlefield, are changing this conflict. As drone fleets grow and more pilots become trained on the technology, they're exacting heavy casualties on enemy troops and contributing to the war's increasingly static lines.

No other weapon is doing all of the things these unusual weapons do, from flying into vehicle hatches to chasing down soldiers. There's no missile, bomb, bullet, or artillery shell that can do these things, at least not like this.
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The history of warfare is that when new weapon systems are introduced there will be responses to them to reduce their lethality.  I suspect one such development will be drones to kill enemy drones.