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

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China is conducting a systematic effort to study drone tactics used in the Ukraine war, with analysts documenting battlefield developments within months. A new analysis says it can take a year or more for those lessons to become visible in PLA training, equipment, or force structure.

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...