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Myanmar's armed rebel groups lose edge in drone warfare | Deutsche Welle
Jammers and supply chain troubles are crippling resistance groups' drone fleets in Myanmar, new research shows. At the same time, the junta is increasingly using drones to target them.
Source: Deutsche Welle | 11 July 2025
Armed groups fighting Myanmar's military regime are losing the edge they had built up in the use of drones in the civil war set off by the 2021 coup — and may even be falling behind, experts and resistance fighters said.
"The military has been rapidly closing the gap in drone use," the US research group Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) said in a report in July, The War From the Sky: How Drone Warfare Is Shaping the Conflict in Myanmar.
Though both sides continue to build up and improve their drone arsenals, the report found that "2025 appears to be the year that the military may gain a clear advantage."
