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  Welcome to the Politica UK InfoPod. Over the past decade, a new weapon has quietly transformed modern warfare. It is small, relatively inexpensive, and increasingly autonomous. Yet its impact on the battlefield has been enormous. These machines are drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, and many military analysts now describe them as the new soldiers of the sky . Drones are not entirely new. Early versions appeared decades ago as reconnaissance tools used primarily for surveillance. The United States began using armed drones extensively in the early twenty-first century, particularly during conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Systems such as the MQ-9 Reaper demonstrated that a remotely piloted aircraft could carry out precision strikes while keeping human pilots far from danger. But what we are seeing today is something very different. In conflicts such as the war in Ukraine , drones have evolved from specialised military platforms into mass battlefield tools used in enormous numb...