The world has been slowly, quietly adjusting to the growing use of unmanned systems in warfare. From the spectre of Predators and Reapers stalking the mountains of Afghanistan during the war on terror, there's been a growing appreciation of what these systems can do, but it's always been coupled with the feeling that 'in a real war' they wouldn't be nearly as useful. Then the Bayraktar TB2 started blasting $25 million anti aircraft systems in Ukraine while Russian drones have played a seemingly important role spotting for precision guided artillery rounds. When an aircraft starts mowing down anti-air systems, you pay attention. In this presentation, I give an overview of what we've seen in terms of the usage of drones and loiter munitions in Ukraine, then I get on to what makes that effectiveness so damn scary...the fact that these things are cheap. Really cheap (at least by defence equipment standards). Compared to tanks, jets, and all the kind of traditional balance sheet plat