Prediction: President Trump Wants to Fast-Track U.S. Drone Production, but Kratos and AeroVironment Stocks Are the Wrong Way to Play This New Defense Policy

2025 is shaping up to be "the year of the drone." According to data from online newspaper The Kyiv Independent, Russia launched more than 1,300 drone strikes (and 250 missiles) at Ukraine's capital city of Kyiv in 2024. That may sound like a lot, but over the course of the evening of July 9, 2025, Russia launched more than 700 attack and decoy drones at Ukraine in a single night. Ukraine famously responded to its ongoing bombardment with a drone mission of its own in June -- "Operation Spiderweb," in which a few hundred drones, smuggled into Russia and controlled by remote pilots transmitting over that country's own cellphone networks, wreaked havoc on Russia's strategic bomber fleet, damaging or destroying more than three dozen aircraft in a matter of minutes. Drones have also played a part in the recent Israel-Iran conflict. Israel's surprise attack on Iran on June 13, for example, involved drones launched from within Iran to take out its air defense systems preparatory to a wider bombing campaign. Iran's response reportedly involved the launching of more than 1,000 drones in an attack on Israel. Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool