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Apologies.  I'm from the West so I referred to it as OUR MIC.  If the Ukraine's previous actions are repeated then they'll be immediately flying these drones into Russian buildings.  That's not great either.  What do I know though?
Kyiv is now seeking to boost domestic production to build what officials cast as an "army of drones."

"Begun, the Drone War has." >

I envision a future hobby of the ultra rich - drone army battles. >

That would honestly be really cool. It would probably be a good way to get them to lay off the actual wars too. >

maybe the drones will have actual aiming mechanisms for the dropped grenades in the next block >

I'm thinking they could at least throw an IR laser pointer aimed down, and IR camera on them.   
I build drones, and that seems like the most easy, lightweight answer I can think of. >

Hello DJI how much C4 can we strap on and still fly? >

At least 1 >

How many drones is that? More than 500 but less than 1000?    
*According to google, the cost for the average military drone is between half a million to just over a million dollars. The article is very short on information. Not sure why asking a question for perspective's sake is drawing ire. >

The majority of the drones that are being used right now are off the shelf DJI drones under 2k. 
Domestic production wise, their heavy lift drones cost 20k, and they've started to churn out what are effectively DIY FPV racing drones with RPG warheads strapped to the bottom, and running them into tanks and APCs, cost of those likely being under 1k. >

So more like a few hundred thousand drones. Thank you. >

Is the US paying for that too? >

We are paying for everything in Ukraine. >

I've been downvoted to oblivion and so will you so here's an upvote and a question.  Who ultimately gets paid in the purchase/ manufacture of these drones?  I'm assuming China via our military industrial complex. >

I’d reason that it’ll be the Chinese and the western Military Complex. China will be an easy source to by cheaper resources to build these drones and the industrial complex in the west will get contracted out to provided their expertise to Ukraine. Really only the Chinese and the MIC benefit from this. The US just writes massive checks out to Ukraine for defenses but it’s up to Ukraine how to spend it.