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drones. they can manufacture drone munitions in 20 minutes. drone operator is one of the most dangerous jobs, the boss says. as soon as they locate a drone operator, they use all kinds of weaponry, artillery, mrls, tanks. we have a high rate of casualties among drone pilots. in the forest, uslan s mission is now over, but he sees a long battle ahead in a contest of wits and brute force. mostly last month our but last two weeks maybe we stop and russians making counterattack. reporter: all the time drones will shape the way this war changes. there was a lot of heavy fighting going on around us as we were there with that front line drone unit. that s something we ve seen increasingly and heard about
target from a drone, you re looking through a very narrow straw. there are other forms of intelligence. phil lived the world of human intelligence in addition to signals intelligence. what we really want to do is you want to close gaps and you can only do that through complimentary systems and clearly there was high confidence that they were going to strike known targets in that facility. but it s very difficult unless you can see through a wall or you have is a source that has exited that building and said there are two other people in there and that has to be part of the mix and our community knows that. this is simply look the drone munitions struck exactly where it was targeting. so operationally, this worked extremely well. it was an intelligence failure based on the fact that it wasn t