Could Ukraine be more valuable to NATO than NATO is to Ukraine? In this video, we explore how Ukrainian drone operators stunned NATO forces during major exercises, exposing critical weaknesses in alliance tactics, doctrine, and battlefield readiness. From Hedgehog 2025 to Aurora 2026, Ukraine’s combat-tested drone teams repeatedly overwhelmed advanced Western units. Discover why NATO is scrambling to adapt, what these lessons mean for future warfare, and how Ukraine is reshaping military strategy.
00:00 - A New Reality for NATO
01:13 - From Student to Teacher
02:53 - Shaking Up Hedgehog 2025
04:54 - The Gotland Defense Failure
11:39 - Why NATO's Tactics Failed
17:14 - Russia's Threat & NATO's Future
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00:00 - A New Reality for NATO
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02:53 - Shaking Up Hedgehog 2025
04:54 - The Gotland Defense Failure
11:39 - Why NATO's Tactics Failed
17:14 - Russia's Threat & NATO's Future
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00:00For many, the holy grail for Ukraine's long-term security would be its accession into NATO.
00:06The logic is simple.
00:07Membership in the world's largest and most powerful military alliance
00:10would bring the full force of the other 31 members to bear on Ukraine's side,
00:15the ultimate deterrence against future Russian aggression.
00:18But what if it's actually the other way around?
00:20What if Ukraine's entrance into the alliance would be at least as beneficial for NATO
00:25as the other way around?
00:26Before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the idea might have seemed laughable,
00:32but it's not that far-fetched anymore.
00:34In fact, it's quite the contrary.
00:37In 2025, Ukrainian drone operators invited to participate in NATO's Hedgehog 2025 exercises in Estonia
00:45forced officials to reset the training several times
00:49after quickly inflicting unacceptable casualties on British and Estonian units.
00:53Not once, but repeatedly.
00:55Now, in the Aurora 2026 NATO exercises held in Sweden, they've done it again,
01:01and they've exposed NATO's most dangerous weaknesses in the process.
01:06Here's how Ukraine's drone crews shredded NATO's defenses and tactics, and why it matters.
01:11Ukraine established a relationship with NATO in the 1990s following its independence from the collapsed Soviet Union.
01:18But the relationship has been growing in leaps and bounds following Russia's invasion
01:23and Ukraine's subsequent application for NATO membership in 2022.
01:28In particular, Ukraine has increasingly been invited to participate in NATO's various military exercises in Europe.
01:35For example, Ukraine has hosted and or participated in the annual Seabreeze exercises since 1997,
01:43usually held in the Black Sea, but held in the UK in 2025.
01:47Ukrainian observers and experts also participated in the massive Steadfast Defender 2024 exercise,
01:54the biggest NATO drill since the end of the Cold War involving more than 90,000 military personnel from 31
02:01NATO allies.
02:02But in those and other earlier exercises, Ukraine was more or less a junior partner,
02:07there for the training, to enhance interoperability, and essentially to learn from NATO.
02:12That started changing in 2025.
02:15Thanks to its hard-won experience fighting Russia,
02:18the alliance has increasingly started positioning Ukraine as an expert at its exercises,
02:23there to teach and add value rather than to learn.
02:26At the RETMUS 2025 exercises in Portugal,
02:30Ukrainian teams deployed sea drones that sank a NATO frigate in simulation,
02:35highlighting asymmetric naval threats.
02:37And at the Spring Storm 2026 exercises in Estonia,
02:41Ukrainian representatives participated alongside forces from the US, UK, France, Germany, and others.
02:48But it was at the Hedgehog 2025 exercises in Estonia that Ukraine really made its mark.
02:54The exercises brought together more than 16,000 troops from 12 NATO countries.
02:59They trained alongside Ukrainian drone operators,
03:03including military personnel temporarily seconded from the front lines.
03:07Together, they simulated a contested and congested battlefield with various types of drones.
03:12The result was unexpected and shocking for NATO.
03:16In one of the training scenarios, a combat group of several thousand soldiers,
03:20including troops from the participating British Brigade and the Estonian Division,
03:25attempted to launch a mechanized attack.
03:27Facing off against them was a Ukrainian drone unit consisting of around 10 soldiers.
03:32The Ukrainians were equipped with their drones and Delta,
03:35a modern Ukrainian battlefield management system.
03:38Delta collects intelligence in real time,
03:41uses artificial intelligence to analyze large amounts of information,
03:45identifies targets,
03:46and coordinates strikes between command and units.
03:49The NATO forces didn't stand a chance.
03:52In about half a day,
03:53the Ukrainian drone operators reportedly destroyed 17 armored vehicles
03:57and delivered 30 strikes on other targets.
04:00In one simulated battle,
04:02Ukrainian drones reportedly wiped out two NATO motorized infantry battalions,
04:07attempting to attack an objective by driving through thick woodland
04:10that trapped vehicles on roads.
04:12According to Ivar Hanyot,
04:14the coordinator of Unmanned Aerial Systems for the Estonian Defense League,
04:18and a participant in the exercise,
04:20within the scope of the exercise,
04:22they, the two battalions,
04:23effectively lost their combat capability.
04:26Meanwhile,
04:27he said NATO units didn't even get to our drone operators,
04:30as another unidentified participant recalled,
04:33The NATO combat group simply moved without any camouflage,
04:37setting up tents and armored vehicles.
04:39All of this was destroyed.
04:40Now,
04:41some defense experts have been raising the alarm for some time
04:44that the war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed the way war is waged,
04:48and that NATO risks being left behind.
04:50The Hedgehog 2025 exercises represented a serious wake-up call for the alliance.
04:56Now,
04:56Ukraine has repeated the trick,
04:58and those warnings have evolved into large red flags.
05:01The Sweden-led Aurora 2026 exercises ran from April 27 to May 13, 2026.
05:09Taking place largely in southern and central Sweden and the Baltic Sea,
05:13the exercise mobilized a reported 18,000 troops across land, sea,
05:18and air forces from 13 countries.
05:20The host Sweden,
05:21the U.S.,
05:22the U.K.,
05:23Denmark,
05:23Norway,
05:24Finland,
05:25Germany,
05:25France,
05:26the Netherlands,
05:27Canada,
05:27Estonia,
05:28Latvia,
05:29and Ukraine.
05:30Even Sweden's crowned Princess Victoria was present,
05:33dressed in full military gear.
05:35The wide-reaching exercises practiced defending Sweden against naval raids,
05:40joint ground and air operations,
05:42and emergency movement of troops and material to a threatened region.
05:45But the main event was a force-on-force defense of the Swedish island Gotland
05:50in the western Baltic against a simulated Russian hybrid war attack.
05:54As Rear Admiral Jonas Wikström,
05:56the Swedish exercise director,
05:58described it,
05:59The scenario is that on the eastern side of the NATO border,
06:03like Finland and the Baltic states,
06:04we have a massive build-up of enemy units,
06:06a concentration of units on that side,
06:09and we also have,
06:10within Sweden and other allied nations,
06:12hybrid activities.
06:13It's an increased level of hybrid activities like sabotage,
06:17cyber attacks,
06:18influence operations,
06:19things like that.
06:20That translated to a pair of Ukrainian drone teams acting as adversaries,
06:25as part of the notional Russian force attacking Gotland.
06:28The first was from the 1st National Guard Brigade,
06:31Buravey,
06:32and the second from the 20th National Guard Brigade,
06:35Lyubart.
06:36Attempting to defend against them were some 17,300 allied troops.
06:40These included formations from Sweden's South Skone Regiment,
06:44the Luftwaffe Regimentet LV-6 Air Defense Regiment,
06:48and the 32nd Home Guard Regiment,
06:50alongside elements of the U.S. Marine Corps 3rd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company,
06:56the Combat Logistics Battalions 24 and 27,
07:00Danish Home Guard Troops,
07:01and British Infantry.
07:02More than 17,000 of NATO's finest against a handful of Ukrainian drone operators.
07:08On paper, it's a complete mismatch.
07:10But on the ground,
07:11NATO's forces suffered some of the same damage as they did at Hedgehog 2025.
07:16During the last three days of the exercises from May 11 to 13,
07:21the NATO units were tasked with defending key installations under a Russian attack,
07:25combining conventional military assault with unconventional war tactics.
07:29As we'll discover a bit later on,
07:31this distinction between conventional and unconventional
07:34is a fundamental part of NATO's problem.
07:37The Ukrainians' role in the exercise was to act as Russian attackers using drones.
07:42The Ukrainian units were operating standard, domestically manufactured FPV drones,
07:47fitted with directional antennas and extended life batteries.
07:50The operators weren't equipped with anything special by the standards of the war in Ukraine.
07:54They controlled their drones with the commercial tablets,
07:57Game Boy Analog Control units,
07:59and off-the-shelf viewing goggles that you find throughout Ukraine's military.
08:03To repel this seemingly humble attacking force,
08:06NATO's defenses included state-of-the-art Swedish Gripen fighter jets,
08:11Archer long-range howitzers,
08:12Advanced CV-90 Infantry Fighting Vehicles,
08:15and Leopard 2A8 Main Battle Tanks, among others.
08:19Unexpectedly,
08:20that array of advance and very costly equipment got pulverized.
08:23A Ukrainian pilot, identified as Tarek, told the Associated Press
08:28that his unit's successful attacks forced the organizers to stop training
08:32and return troops and equipment that had been notionally destroyed by attack drones
08:36back to life three times.
08:38According to a statement from the Ukrainian's First Corps,
08:40Due to the effectiveness of the Ukrainian FPV pilots,
08:44their participation in certain stages of the exercises
08:47was even curtailed so that other units could complete the exercises
08:51without completely losing their equipment to Ukrainian drones.
08:55Now, in one mechanized assault scenario,
08:57a Ukrainian crew working alongside Swedish pilots
09:00wiped out 28 of approximately 32 pieces of major equipment.
09:04In another, Ukrainian FPV swarmed and destroyed the defenses of a military airfield
09:10in less than 20 minutes,
09:11hitting all targets successfully with no drones lost.
09:14It was humiliating.
09:16But to make matters worse from NATO's perspective,
09:19the Ukrainian drone units weren't even its most elite.
09:22That was at least a mitigating factor in the Hedgehog 2025 embarrassment.
09:27Those exercises involved Ukraine's feared nemesis unit,
09:30aka the Armed Forces of Ukraine's 412th Unmanned Systems Forces Brigade,
09:36one of the USF's standout drone units.
09:38Since the start of 2026 alone,
09:41the elite brigade has reportedly destroyed 20 Russian tanks,
09:44the equivalent of two full tank companies.
09:47Overall, since 2022,
09:49they're credited with destroying or damaging nearly 200 tanks,
09:53300 armored fighting vehicles,
09:55and more than 1,000 vehicles.
09:57The unit has also taken out a growing number of sophisticated Russian air defense systems,
10:02including Tor M-2,
10:04Buk M-3,
10:05and Osa launches,
10:07as well as Boris Ogleb's two electronic warfare stations.
10:11In one instance,
10:12they eliminated three such air defense systems
10:14worth an estimated $80 to $90 million in a single month.
10:18They're also innovators.
10:20In April 2026,
10:22nemesis achieved a global first
10:24by destroying a Russian German attack drone
10:26using an interceptor drone launched from an unmanned surface vessel,
10:30or USV.
10:31So it's not that much of a surprise
10:32that a team with nemesis' experience and expertise
10:36would lay into NATO defenses
10:37with the same skill and ferocity
10:39as they do to the Russians all the time.
10:42But that wasn't the case in Gotland.
10:43At the Aurora 2026 exercises,
10:47the Ukrainian participants were more or less standard units
10:50that Ukraine deploys across the vast front lines.
10:53Both the Buravey and Liubat teams are combat seasoned,
10:56reliable,
10:57and competent fighting outfits.
10:59But they're not considered to be at the elite level
11:01of Ukraine's special forces commandos,
11:03or USF forces like nemesis.
11:05The 1st Brigade's organic drone battalion,
11:08Kondor,
11:09participated in the training.
11:10Fairly typical of AFU drone units,
11:13Kondor operates almost exclusively
11:15Ukraine-manufactured observation kamikaze
11:18and bomber drones,
11:19and NATO couldn't cope with them.
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11:36So why do the NATO forces fare so badly
11:39against Ukraine's compact drone units?
11:41Well, according to Anatoly Merkutun,
11:44a large part of the reason is outdated tactics.
11:47Former police detective Merkutun is the commander of Nemesis,
11:50and a familiar name in Ukrainian drone circles.
11:53He was an early proponent and developer
11:55of the USF's now ubiquitous bomber drone technology,
11:59and one of the pioneers of using small drone video-derived imagery
12:02and data fusion to develop intelligence
12:05and conduct strikes more efficiently.
12:07So, he's well qualified to comment.
12:09In a post-exercise interview,
12:12he said that the NATO tactics of keeping fighting vehicles
12:15and troops in compact groups seem nearly suicidal,
12:18pointing out that both the Russian and Ukrainian armed forces
12:21had abandoned that way of fighting years ago.
12:23Indeed, it's become rare to see armored columns
12:26on maneuvers in Ukraine,
12:27or deployed in groups of more than two or three at a time.
12:30Drones are already responsible for 70-80% of battlefield losses on both sides,
12:36but Russian FPV and other kamikaze drones,
12:39which cost around $400 each,
12:41destroying several M1 Abrams tanks worth $8-10 million per unit.
12:45Russian losses are, of course, much higher than that.
12:48Their tanks and armored vehicles might not cost quite as much,
12:51but they've been getting wrecked by Ukrainian drones
12:53at a scarcely believable rate.
12:55And, of course, it takes much, much longer
12:57to produce an expensive piece of armor
12:59than it does to churn out thousands of cheap, deadly FPV drones.
13:04The problem is, it's not just Russia and Ukraine
13:06that have embraced this new technology.
13:08By the looks of it,
13:10Israel is losing advanced Makava tanks,
13:12Namir armored vehicles, bulldozers,
13:14and other heavy equipment at a rapid rate in Lebanon.
13:17The Hezbollah militia is wreaking havoc
13:20against its much more powerful foe
13:22with FPV and fiber-optic guided drones.
13:25The Israeli invasion has suffered as a result,
13:27and casualties of both troops and equipment are soaring,
13:30just like for Russia in Ukraine.
13:32As the Israeli newspaper Times of Israel puts it,
13:36Israel should have seen it coming,
13:37but was caught off guard.
13:39Evidently, so has NATO.
13:41Meanwhile, all of NATO's main rivals
13:43appear to embrace the new technology
13:45and adapt to their military doctrines accordingly.
13:48And despite a massive effort on the Alliance's part
13:51to remedy this situation,
13:53the gap appears to still be growing.
13:54Peel away the bravado,
13:56and Iran has basically fought the US and Israel
13:59to a strategic standstill in the Persian Gulf,
14:02using long-range kamikaze drones,
14:04innovative ballistic missiles,
14:06and asymmetric tactics.
14:07Even more concerning are new military developments
14:10from China,
14:11especially in the use of AI-enabled drones.
14:14In March 2026,
14:16China unveiled the Atlas drone swarm operations system.
14:19In footage that looks straight out of a sci-fi movie,
14:23a single operator controlled a swarm
14:24of 96 largely autonomous drones simultaneously.
14:28In January,
14:29they showcased a single operator
14:30controlling a swarm of 200 drones in tight formation,
14:34but the March showcase was next level.
14:36In the demonstration,
14:37the swarm launched drones at three second intervals,
14:40achieving full airborne status in less than five minutes.
14:43Once launched,
14:44the drones used swarm intelligence algorithms
14:46to autonomously coordinate reconnaissance,
14:49electronic jamming,
14:50decoying,
14:50and kinetic strikes.
14:52They can communicate with each other
14:53to avoid collisions,
14:55reconfigure formations in real time,
14:57and independently identify and lock onto targets
14:59without continuous human input.
15:02As we've seen with Ukraine's AI-enabled,
15:04largely autonomous Hornet drones,
15:06Ukraine isn't far behind
15:08in terms of autonomous individual drones
15:10or even smaller swarms.
15:12So are many other Western designers and developers.
15:14In fact,
15:16in some ways,
15:17the US's own mass drone swarm program,
15:19Replicator,
15:20is ahead of China's.
15:21Launched primarily to counter China's growing prowess
15:24in the field,
15:25the Replicator initiative successfully met its goal
15:28of fielding thousands of attraitable autonomous systems
15:31across air, sea, and land domains in August 2025.
15:36By early 2026,
15:38the program evolved into Replicator 2,
15:40which focuses on counter drone swarms
15:42and further scaling production,
15:44marking a shift from demonstration to active deployment.
15:47So technically,
15:48while China is still in the early demonstration phase,
15:51the US is already fielding hundreds
15:53of autonomous drone swarms.
15:55But there's a big difference.
15:56The Atlas system suggests
15:57that China is focused on centralized,
16:00homogenous swarms.
16:01Replicator aims for something else entirely,
16:04heterogeneous integration.
16:05In other words,
16:07connecting different types of drones
16:08from different vendors like Anduril,
16:10Shield AI,
16:11and Skydio
16:12into a single,
16:13centrally controlled network force.
16:15Unlike Atlas's single centralized swarm,
16:18Replicator integrates diverse platforms
16:20like the XQ-58A Valkyrie
16:22and various small UAVs.
16:24All the different drones
16:25are coordinated by advanced AI software
16:28like Anduril's Lattice
16:29and Shield AI's Hivemind.
16:31These systems are designed to operate
16:33in GPS-denied
16:34and communication-jammed environments,
16:37autonomously collaborating
16:38to identify and engage targets.
16:41As you can imagine,
16:42it's a much more technically complex process
16:44to get right
16:45than a single unified drone swarm
16:47and likely to be many times more expensive.
16:49Perhaps most tellingly,
16:51nothing remotely as visually impressive
16:52as the Atlas demo
16:53has yet been made public by the program.
16:56But that's the US,
16:57which has identified China
16:59as its main adversary,
17:00not NATO.
17:01NATO's main rival isn't China,
17:04at least not yet.
17:05It's Russia.
17:06And while Russia is making incremental progress
17:08in developing its own autonomous drone swarms,
17:11Ukraine seems to be several steps ahead.
17:13But autonomous drone swarms
17:15are an emerging technology,
17:16not yet entrenched.
17:18And in many senses,
17:19as Ukraine keeps exposing in exercises,
17:22NATO isn't as prepared
17:23for the threat Russia already poses
17:25as it should be,
17:26especially in the far north.
17:27It would be a mistake for NATO
17:29to be lulled into a false sense of complacency
17:32by Ukraine's recent successes
17:33with drones and asymmetric tactics,
17:36impressive and damaging as they are.
17:38Like Ukraine,
17:39Russia has been compelled to adapt
17:40to the new way of waging war in real time
17:42on the battlefield.
17:44NATO hasn't.
17:45Russia, to a large extent,
17:47has transitioned to a wartime economy
17:49and now fields the world's largest
17:51industrial-scale drone ecosystem
17:53outside China.
17:55It's steadily institutionalizing
17:56combat lessons from Ukraine.
17:58And if it wants to compete,
18:00it doesn't have a choice.
18:01Following Kiev's lead,
18:03Moscow has established
18:04a dedicated branch for unmanned systems,
18:06expanded mass training of drone operators,
18:08and is forming new drone units
18:10across the joint force.
18:12Annual drone production
18:13now exceeds 1.5 million drones
18:15across types and sizes,
18:16with Western intelligence services
18:18expecting further sharp increases
18:20driven by Chinese industrial support
18:23and sanctions evasion.
18:24In the Arctic,
18:25Russia is likely to use drones
18:27as integrated force multipliers,
18:29enabling persistent ISR
18:31along Arctic littorals
18:32and the Northern Sea route,
18:34queuing Bastian coastal defense systems,
18:36supporting anti-submarine
18:38and anti-surface operations,
18:39and conducting long-range strikes
18:41with one-way attack drones
18:42and advanced missiles.
18:44These activities will be tightly coupled
18:46with aggressive cyber and electronic warfare
18:48to degrade allied sensing,
18:50targeting,
18:50and command and control capabilities.
18:53To combat all of that effectively,
18:55NATO won't be able to rely solely
18:57on its traditional dominance
18:58in air power and warships.
19:00It'll have to fight fire with fire,
19:02or drones with drones.
19:03And as Ukraine has demonstrated,
19:06it's not yet quite up to the task.
19:07That's not to say the alliance
19:09isn't taking the threat very seriously
19:11and acting accordingly.
19:12Look no further than the forthcoming
19:14Silent Swarm 2026 exercises
19:17scheduled for July 2026 in Estonia.
19:20Although originally primarily
19:21a US Navy-led event,
19:23it's taken on an increasingly
19:25international nature
19:26over its four previous editions,
19:282022,
19:293,
19:304,
19:30and 5.
19:31The 2026 edition
19:32will showcase the alliance's
19:34evolving doctrine
19:35for countering autonomous drone swarms
19:37and integrating manned-unmanned teaming
19:39across land and air domains.
19:41With a focus on electronic warfare,
19:43AI-enabled autonomy,
19:44and layered short-range air defense,
19:47Silent Swarm 2026
19:48clearly reflects NATO's urgent response
19:50to the lessons from Ukraine.
19:52On a more practical level,
19:54at the Aurora 2026,
19:56Ukrainian trainers shared their experience
19:58in using UAVs,
19:59coordinating units,
20:00and working in conditions
20:01of active electronic warfare
20:03in briefings to Swedish,
20:04French,
20:05United Kingdom,
20:06and Netherlands,
20:07service members.
20:08According to Andreas Gustafsson,
20:10Swedish commander
20:10of the brigade combat team
20:12taken to the cleaners
20:13by the Ukrainian crews,
20:15they are miles ahead of us
20:16when it comes to drone warfare,
20:17so we really appreciate them
20:18coming here to share
20:19their experience with us
20:21and we have a lot to learn from them.
20:23But there's a lot more
20:23that NATO needs to change
20:25if it wants to master
20:26next-generation warfare
20:27post-haste.
20:28According to a Ukrainian drone operator
20:31identified as Karat,
20:32who took part in Aurora 2026,
20:35NATO forces have potential
20:36but need significant improvements
20:38in drones,
20:39tactics,
20:39and understanding of drone warfare
20:41at the commander level.
20:42And it starts with the alliance's doctrine.
20:45As noted earlier,
20:46during Aurora 2026,
20:48the alliance considered the use of drones
20:50to be unconventional.
20:51It underscores how,
20:52despite recent updates,
20:54NATO doctrine still treats drones
20:55largely as supplements
20:57to deterrence and defense
20:58rather than core elements.
20:59The consequence,
21:01as Karat suggested,
21:02is that commanders
21:03lack mature concepts
21:04for integrating unmanned systems
21:06into multi-domain operations
21:07against a drone-enabled adversary
21:09like Russia.
21:10Recent initiatives
21:11to support concept development,
21:14standardized training,
21:15and operational experimentation
21:16are definitely steps
21:17in the right direction,
21:19but more is likely required.
21:20Training pipelines
21:21and innovation pathways
21:23will also need to be
21:24urgently established and refined.
21:26Ukraine has had to develop
21:27these rapidly and under fire,
21:29adapt or die, so to speak.
21:31But assembling the solutions
21:32and the humans to design
21:34and operate them
21:35is likely to be significantly
21:36more difficult
21:37across a 32-nation alliance
21:39than a single nation
21:40like Russia or Ukraine,
21:42and that's without considering
21:43integrating everything coherently.
21:45Capital to fund all of this
21:46will also need to be
21:47mobilized and rationalized.
21:49At the moment,
21:50while private capital
21:51is starting to flood
21:52into military startups
21:53and advanced tech,
21:54the allocation of both
21:55public and private capital
21:57into next-generation
21:58defense spending
21:59is a bit of a free-for-all
22:00to say the least.
22:01Structures to consolidate
22:03and streamline production
22:04like Ukraine's Brave One
22:06marketplace
22:06will likely need to be
22:07established within the alliance
22:09to ensure interoperability
22:10and efficient resource allocation.
22:13Brave One allows
22:14individual Ukrainian units
22:15to buy a government-approved
22:17range of weapons systems directly,
22:19reducing red tape
22:20and providing flexibility
22:21while ring-fencing procurement
22:23to reinforce interoperability.
22:25NATO needs to get the balance right.
22:28Without strong,
22:29systemic demand
22:29for key platform categories
22:31such as tactical ISR drones,
22:34loitering munitions
22:34and unmanned logistics vehicles,
22:37the risk is that
22:37allies will continue
22:38paying premium prices
22:40for bespoke systems
22:41while Russia floods the regions
22:42with battle-proven,
22:44mass-produced platforms.
22:45So,
22:46an urgent overhaul is needed
22:48and an urgent overhaul
22:49is underway.
22:50But will it be
22:50too little too late?
22:52In the end,
22:53it may well turn out
22:54that NATO needs Ukraine
22:55more than Ukraine needs NATO.
22:57Nothing beats experience
22:59and Ukraine has bottomless amounts of it.
23:01If the results of Hedgehog 2025
23:03and Aurora 2026
23:05are anything to go by,
23:07for NATO,
23:07it might be a case of
23:08if you can't beat them,
23:10join them.
23:11Or in this case,
23:12let them join you.
23:13We'll obviously keep you updated
23:15as we learn more,
23:16so subscribe to the channel
23:17to hear about it first.
23:19In the meantime,
23:20check out this video
23:21about a genius way
23:22a Ukrainian engineer
23:23discovered to steal Russian drones.
23:26Thanks for watching.
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