Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE

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TRIGGERnometry · Britain Isn't Ready For A Real War - Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

And the way at the moment Ukraine is using drones, they're just swamping.

Absolutely swamping.

And what is brilliant, again, without wanting to go into too much detail, they're also tying drones to weather balloons that fly at 10,000 feet, 10,000 kilometres, yeah, 10,000 feet.

And these drones are above the range of most of the Russian air defence, except the S-300s and S-400s.

These drones electronically look like

big Reaper drones or small aircraft.

So Russia is firing these $10 million or $5 million missiles from S-300 or 400 at a balloon.

And while they're firing at a balloon, the real drones are sort of sneaking through, which is why Ukraine has pretty much destroyed 50%, I think it is, of the Russian oil industry.

But on the technical side.

Sorry, you're right, the petrol.

But when you come to the evolution of drones, when it first started, it was all about the electromagnetic spectrum.

You know, if you could control that, you could control the battlefield.

Then we saw fiber optic drones, which seemed bonkers.

You know, I remember the first Gulf War, the Iraqis fired a lot of anti-tank guided weapons at us.

And the whole battlefield was strewn with these sort of cables, which were doing these anti-tank guided weapons.

And then...

We overcame that.

So now Ukraine is the use of AI and the use of mother drones that sort of fly lots of smaller drones, thousands of kilometers, and then through AI, they light up and then hit targets.

Now, this is something completely unenvisaged four or five years ago.

And how can such a small country, small military like the Ukrainians

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