In the grinding theater of the Ukraine conflict, Russia has quietly rewritten an assumption long held by Western defense planners — that sophisticated weapons must be expensive ones. By wedding advanced guidance and networked targeting to low-cost, high-volume production, Moscow has shifted the arithmetic of modern attrition warfare, raising a question that echoes through history: when quantity itself becomes a form of quality, how does a technologically superior but industrially slower adversary respond?
Russia Outpaces U.S. and Ukraine in Production of Advanced, Low-Cost Weapons
War & Conflict