On a freezing morning last December, in a treeline north of Kharkiv, the future of warfare arrived.
A unit of Ukraine‘s 13th National Guard Brigade attacked Russian positions near the village of Lyptsi.
Tracked ground robots rolled forward carrying explosives and machine guns. Quadcopters buzzed overhead, spotting targets and dropping grenades.
Heavy ‘Baba Yaga’ bombers, the size of a dining table, hunted dug-in infantry. Not a single Ukrainian soldier took part in the assault. The Russians were defeated by an enemy that was not there.
That was 18 months ago. It was the first battle in history fought entirely by machines. And almost no one
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