The learnings support China's development of strategies and policies for strategic competition with the United States, the report said.

Western military planners have been carefully studying Ukraine’s successes since the war began. Destroying $7 billion worth of aircrafts with cheap drones is yet another one.

Ukraine said its “Operation Spiderweb” attacked Russian warplanes worth hundreds of millions of dollars, utilizing drones that each cost under $1,000 and were launched from wooden containers carried o