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How quickly is China learning from the Ukraine war’s latest drone tactics?

Gabriel Dominguez · South China Morning Post
Published 9 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm·1 h ago·1 min read
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China is running the most systematic effort of any outside power to learn from the drone war in Ukraine, with military and defence-industry analysts typically writing up new battlefield techniques within about four months, according to a new analysis. But it usually took a year or more before those lessons showed up publicly in People’s Liberation Army (PLA) training, equipment or force structure, Lilly Min-Chen Lee and Kateryna Bondar wrote in a commentary published on October 7 by the...

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