Ukraine were ahead of Russia in repurposing consumer grade DJI drones bought from AliExpress and using them to aid the war effort. Probably no longer effective, but I seem to recall them having some positive impact in the early months of the war
This article is about "Drones from American startups". That is Skydio and AeroVironment (Switchblade). DJI are cheap, readily available from your corner importer, reliable and offer world leading performance. There is visible gap between quality of picture from DJI and "military grade" Skydio, second one is worse despite being much more expensive. Switchblade 300 cost almost as much per one small anti personnel unit as whole Stugna launcher system, Ukrainians developed their own loitering munition now:
They now have a whole cottage industry of low cost drone producers, some with EW hardening. Based on my X feed, they are still seeing some success, especially given their artillery shortage.
